Maybe he calls her "The Whip Hand", or Mistress.  Never knowingly under-cliched!

(sorry, I can't get the thingamy on top of the "e")

Maybe he calls her Lady Irene. Sounds nice.

Why are we discussing that?

I think that if they really had had something going he would have called her whatever she told him to call her 'cause that's how it works. ;-)

besleybean wrote:

Yeah, but I think he's more than a client.

Interesting. Do you think that in private, Irene does have vanilla sex instead of BDSM?

besleybean wrote:

I suspect she may have once had sex with Sherlock.
What else she does I have absolutely no interest in.  
It's all incredibly distasteful to me.

Why sex? Why not a session? (Which many people count as sex as well but you seemingly don't, that's why I phrased it like that.)

besleybean wrote:

Well I dunno Sherlock's tastes, so I suppose anything is possible.
But I say again, their relationship seems to go beyond professional and client.

Well, I agree. But Irene seems to be enjoying what she does. I see no reason for her to have "ordinary" sex with someone she really fancies. :-D

I think she was attracted to him in a sexual way as well. "Look at us both." But quite one-sided, I suppose. 
 

Well, it's an interesting question about Irene, because I don't think we ever know for sure - her skill is knowing what people like, so she'll adapt herself to be what they want, I presume. (I think some pro-doms have the same leaning outside of work, but it doesn't necessarily follow, and Irene was doing it for money, etc.  And the moment when she inadvertently reveals her feelings - there is no SM flavour to what they're doing there.  So I think it may be open to interpretation).

Sherlock, on the other hand - well, I like to assume that her talent for knowing what people liked didn't fail her.  So what we saw, is what he likes. 

Yes, I have thought about this. 

Liberty wrote:

Sherlock, on the other hand - well, I like to assume that her talent for knowing what people liked didn't fail her.  So what we saw, is what he likes. 

Plenty of women looking similar to Irene pass Sherlock daily on the street, I guess and yet he remains unmoved by them.
But there is only one woman who could play such a delightful mind-games with him and to prove his equal during the process.
Hence her title, "The Woman".

besleybean wrote:

I'm not sure what you mean?
What do we see and is she really responding to his likes?

We see her being sexually dominant, and yes, she's supposed to know what people like.  (Although I think there's much more to it than that aspect - but that was the aspect we were talking about, whether IF they had done it, they had sex or a "game"!).