Pandora's Box (BDSM)

{{short description|Professional BDSM studio in New York City}}

Pandora's Box is a professional domination BDSM studio founded and managed for over a decade by Mistress Raven (who was at the time one of the most famous dominatrixes in America) in New York City.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/09/movies/humiliation-business-and-its-customers.html|title=Humiliation Business And Its Customers|last=Holden|first=Stephen|date=1997-05-09|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-02-12|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} It has been the subject of the documentary Fetishes by Nick Broomfield,{{IMDb title|qid=Q1215351|id=tt0116298|title=Fetishes}} and a book by the photographic journalist Susan Meiselas,Pandora's Box.

Photographs by Susan Meiselas. Text by Mistress Raven, Richard August, Mistress Delilah.

Trebruk Publishing, London, 2002. 92 pp., 63 color illustrations, 8x12". {{ISBN|0-9538901-1-2}} as well as the subject of numerous magazine and newspaper articles.{{cite web|url=http://www.nyrock.com/spc/1998/pandora.asp|title=A Chat With Mistress Raven of Pandora's Box|date=December 1998|author=Otto Luck|publisher=New York Rock|accessdate=2010-05-16|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101127035955/http://nyrock.com/spc/1998/pandora.asp|archivedate=2010-11-27}}{{cite web|url=http://www.villagevoice.com/2002-01-29/columns/dungeons-and-doms/|title=Dungeons and Doms|author=Tristan Taormino|publisher=Village Voice|date=2002-01-29|accessdate=2010-05-16}} In 2018, Meiselas revisited the dungeon once again to photograph it for Garage Magazine in an article about BDSM and high fashion, featuring some of the current Mistresses that worked there at the time.{{cite web|url=https://garage.vice.com/en_us/article/evmgak/bdsm-is-everywhere-from-high-culture-to-high-fashion|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180214205644/https://garage.vice.com/en_us/article/evmgak/bdsm-is-everywhere-from-high-culture-to-high-fashion|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 14, 2018|title=BDSM Is Everywhere From High Culture to High Fashion|author=Katherine Bernard|publisher=Garage Magazine|date=2018-02-14|accessdate=2022-01-19}}

Its premises are a large basement facility in the Chelsea district of Manhattan. In 2006 it absorbed another domination studio, Den of Iniquity.{{citation needed|date=May 2012}} It provides a wide range of BDSM activities, including fetish and roleplay. Like other New York domination studios, it does not permit sex on the premises.{{Citation needed|date=May 2010}}