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“I always was very fascinated from a young age of women that
express their sexuality in a very creative manner…”
—Gal Ritchie
Ritchie thrived with the performative aspects of domming, but she became fatigued with the
enormous amount of bespoke requests.
“I would have these guys sending me pages and pages of scripts to learn and be like, you
can say this but not this… Like you were expected to be able to remember stuff and not cross
certain boundaries and really be on the ball with it,” Gal says. “And I just got really burnt out, I
kind of got tired of having to perform this character all the time. And because I’m not naturally
dominant, it really was a performance every day.”
When she decided to take a break from domming, she landed a job doing recruitment for
software engineering positions with major tech companies such as Meta.
“But my heart was very much still interested in sex work,” Gal admits.
So at night she began studying the careers of a few of adult’s contemporary greats such as
Angela White and Abella Danger “who have done the best or have been most successful.”
“Alongside that it seemed like they really enjoy what they do and they love the sex,” Ritchie
says. “It’s not a facade they’re putting on, it’s who they are. And then I started looking at who
represented them, and Mark Spiegler’s name came up.
“I’m someone who researches everything before I do it, slightly neurotically, I will say. So I
watched like every documentary, every interview, every podcast, any media that was on Mark
Spiegler, I read and watched it, listened to it.”
She was 19.
“I always was very fascinated from a young age of women that express their sexuality in a
very creative manner, or the women that don’t succumb to the stigma of the shame that society
embeds in them when they express themselves sexually,” Gal explains.
“And luckily for me, my mum is very supportive. So when I was younger and expressed these
interests or questions or curiosity within the realm of sex work—not necessarily doing sex work—
but just the women within the framework of it, she was very supportive.”
Ritchie’s mother even took her to burlesque shows and feminist lectures.
“And I always really appreciated that. Because then when I did want to go into domming
professionally, I spoke to her about it and she was very helpful in the way that she also made
it clear that it’s not the norm,” Gal says. “… But my mum didn’t come from the norm. My mum
dropped out of school at 14, well, she got kicked out of school at 14. And ended up going to
art college and now she has a PhD and she’s a college professor.”
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