"After five years of working as a project manager, Mistress Harley decided to leave her career in tech to pursue her new found interest. She noticed there was a gap in the market and used her technical knowledge, gained from her master's degree in library science and information technology, to start her own business."
"Harley has access to intimate details about Jerry, his spending habits, and his personal conversations. She even knows a lot about his friends from when they unknowingly divulge gossip in emails or texts. If information is power, then Mistress Harley has all the power."
"He says he signed a legally binding agreement that requires him to pay Mistress Harley $15,000 over 10 years, plus interest, with payments due on the fifth of every month. That’s about the extent of their interaction, he says, and if he wants to talk to her on the phone, there’s a charge for that. (“I’ll talk about anything for $5 a minute,” says Mistress Harley, a former librarian and technical project manager with a master’s degree in library science from San Jose State University."
"Though Ben is one of Mistress Harley's most extreme clients, he is one of dozens of men who pay her to meddle in his life. Mistress Harley, who markets herself online as "the tech domme," makes her living as a specialized kind of financial dominatrix. The niche profession has increasingly attracted smart, tech-savvy women looking to cash in on men's desires to be dominated - not physically, but where it really hurts: in their wallets."
"she has become the most recognizable public face of findom"
"As a techdomme, her clients beg her to ‘dominate my computer’, and let her take control of their devices by downloading remote-access software that will allow her to browse and download content "