The Bizarre Lovemakers by Bruce Rogers

The term ‘Dominatrix’ itself was seemingly first coined in Bruce Rogers’ pulp paperback The Bizarre Lovemakers, published in 1967

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Dominatrix is the feminine form of the Latin dominator, a ruler or lord, and was originally used in a non-sexual sense. Its use in English dates back to at least 1561. Its earliest recorded use in the prevalent modern sense, as a female dominant in S&M, dates to 1967. It was initially coined to describe a woman who provides punishment-for-pay as one of the case studies within Bruce Roger’s pulp paperback, The Bizarre Lovemakers.