Quote Originally Posted by Primus_Pilus
Natalie, it's a french thing. Since Dominatrix is just the translation of "dominatrice" from french and the french have a tendency to gener specify things, like lamp to "la lampe", etc... Anyways, since the Marquis De Sade is the grandfather to most of our modernday BDSM literature (or at least the perveyor of the goods to our knowledge), french was the mechanism in which much of the terminology was derived. Hence, Dom/me.
Are you sure it's not just a pseudo-French affectation?