From 7de Laan to 7de slaan

Published Nov 20, 2014

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A popular Afrikaans soapie actress has spilled the beans about her kinky bedroom habits.

Yvonne van den Bergh, who played Petra in 7de Laan, has confessed on Facebook that she’s turned on by whips and canes.

The actress says she grew tired of hiding her love for bondage, discipline, dominance and submission (referred to as BDSM).

The self-confessed dominatrix says she’s been hiding her sexual fetishes for years but decided to come out before the media twisted it into something ugly.

Coming from a staunch Afrikaner background, Yvonne has been bracing herself for the backlash.

She’s decided to come out of the studded closet because a stalker was about to expose her secret.

It’s rumoured the man became obsessed with her, even contacting her bosses and colleagues.

Yvonne says: “As a young mother, BDSM was the last thing on my mind. I also chose a profession where I work in the public eye.

“Those two things, motherhood and my fear of public exposure, kept me from acting on my sadistic impulses for many years.”

The actress is married to fellow TV personality Jacques du Preez and the couple have two children.

But when the lights go out, Yvonne becomes Mistress Baton.

She says becoming a dominatrix is “sexual magic”.

“The moment I first put cane to bum, I knew it would become a very big part of my life,” she reveals.

Yvonne was just a little girl when she first became aware of her sexual power and preferences.

“My earliest sadistic influence was the cruel and strong little robber girl in Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen.

“I admired her independence and the fact that she could hold her own with her knives and eventually her pistols, in the dark woods amid a band of dangerous robbers,” says Yvonne.

And not even unbearable pain could sway her from her chosen road.

“Seeing slaves being whipped in old TV series and films was another favourite of mine throughout my childhood,” she confesses.

Fans of the soft-spoken, feminine Petra from 7de Laan (her character that was married to Jan-Hendrik Terblanche) might be shocked by her sexual preferences, but Yvonne says she doesn’t care.

“I don’t fear exposure anymore. I am not going to ignore such a big part of my life, which I enjoy so much, because the world is bigoted,” says Yvonne.

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