Mistress Cyan has been blessing Los Angeles with her presence for all 72 years of her life. She has been a professional dominatrix for 32 of them.
Sanctuary, her dungeon, sits in an industrial pocket of South L.A., alongside the railroad tracks near Willowbrook and Gardena.
I had been trying to get a hold of Mistress Cyan for a few weeks through email and DMs on Instagram when I finally got the guts to simply call the dungeon's front office. Who knew it could be so simple?
I thought you had to know a guy who knew a guy to get you in touch with someone so mysterious, and yet, all I had to do was call during business hours.
The man who answered sounded like I had woken him up, and it was well past 11 a.m.
“Mistress won't be in for a few hours, but she's here every day,” he told me.