Centurian Publishing’s retail manager, Michelle Bouteiller
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A fetish magazine company based in Reno has been in business for nearly 50 years BY B R A D BY NUM
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he cover of issue 38 of Enslaved Sissies and Maids, from last year, features an airbrushed illustration of a very muscular woman. One of her nipples is pierced, and she grips a rope in her right hand. The other end of the rope is attached to a metal clasp wrapped around the penis of a slender blonde with one bulbous pink breast visible. Ambiguity abounds. Beneath the title is written: “Sissy Men
Serving Mistresses Masters.” Inside the magazine are stories like “Wearing my Wife’s Panties” and “A Sissy for the Stripper” accompanied by explicit illustrations and occasional photographs. Enslaved Sissies and Maids is one of three magazines regularly published by Centurian Publishing in Reno. The other two are Forced Womanhood—“Men Transformed into Sexy She-Male Slaves by Mistresses and Masters”—and
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Transformation, a less explicit lifestyle magazine that president and editor Hanna Rodgers, 41, describes as “transsexual Playboy.” Centurian is a family business. Rodgers and many members of her family are shareholders. Rodgers’ mother, Heidi Randol, is the company’s bookkeeper and accountant. Rodgers is from the San Diego area and has been in Reno since 1998. Prior
to buying Centurion Publishing in 2011, she worked a variety of jobs around the city, most recently as an administrative assistant in the University of Nevada, Reno admissions office. “I was not very happy, and there was nowhere to go, no advancement,” she said. “So my family said, well, we’ve got some money, and we can help you if you want to buy a business. Let’s start looking.”
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