KINKY BOOTED
Residents rage over S&M dungeon in B’klyn home
She’s used to being in charge, but a Brooklyn dominatrix said she feels handcuffed over a neighbor’s efforts to push her out of the community.
Charlotte Taillor, who runs a domination school out of her Bedford-Stuyvesant home, said her neighbors have intimidated her students and driven instructors away from her Quincy St. business.
Taillor moved to Quincy St. at the end of December with the hopes of building a community centered around the kink and domination culture. But within just a month, religious neighbor and block leader Lauri Miller began complaining, calling the school a “gentlemen’s sex club,” even though Taillor said no sex takes place there.
Before moving to BedfordStuyvesant, Charlotte had her school set up in Crown Heights where she said it was very well received. She moved because she needed a larger space.
“It was going to be awesome, a little kink community,” Taillor, 30, told the Daily News. “We always had great relationships with the neighbors. We were always vocal about who we are. We are very proud and we have always told neighbors who we are.”
But not even the selfdefense classes Taillor offers were enough to make her students and teachers feel safe from Miller’s wrath.
According to Taillor, Miller stands outside every other day screaming hate speech, calling Taillor and her associates “filthy” and “weirdos.”
“Every time she is screaming we have to cancel workshops,” Taillor explained. “People who come to kink shops or want to get involved in the kink scene, don’t want to walk in if there is someone screaming outside looking at them. And this is people’s livelihood and they are leaving because they don’t want cops outside, or this lady screaming, and I understand them.”
Miller, in a long note to Taillor, outlined her objections.
“Your business and the characters that come to be serviced at your S&M KINKY FETISH business do create problems for me,” Miller wrote. “You bring transient nefarious characters to a community of families.”
Miller denied going through Taillor’s trash. “Let me assure you, I want nor desire to have any physical contact with you, your clients and especially your refuse,” Miller wrote. “Going through your garbage is not on my agenda.” At a community meeting Wednesday evening, Miller said she doesn’t feel safe when Taillor’s associates are around.
“It may be a prejudice of mine, but once the activity they have don’t get them off no more, what are they going to do, snatch a kid or a woman off the street? I mean some of these guys are really creepy looking, and that’s what really bothers me,” said Miller, who spearheaded the anti-kink meeting. “Some of them are clean, but others are creepy and it sends your spidey senses tingling.”
“I’m very concerned for my kids and I think they (Taillor) need to go. I never had to worry for my kids, we are a community and this is not what we need,” said neighbor Mary Patrick, 26. The mother of six says she can hear strange noises — including groans and whips — from Taillor’s school.
Taillor told the meeting participants she didn’t want to disrupt the neighborhood.
“It’s their community,” Taillor told The News. “I don’t have any intention to go into the community and mess anything up. I’ll leave, but it’s not a food truck that you can just get up and move.”
Indeed, the mahogany throne and suspension rig are heavy, and there are also thousands of dollars worth of sex toys and a velvet curtain to relocate.