MISS MAKEOVER’S MINIONS: T-GIRLS and KINKY GUYS

“She seemed to me to be a man in woman’s clothes”. James Boswell on the Chevalier D’Eon, an eighteenth century transvestite.

More and more men are getting in touch with their inner female. Unfortunately for their wives this is not a woman who wants to help with the housework. She is not a mate who wants to share her feelings over a vat of Chardonay. Most men’s transgendered persona is a butch nymphomaniac who dresses like a streetwalker; someone who wants sex all the time and hasn’t the slightest interest in chocolate. She doesn’t watch soap operas or give a stuff about the tragic death of Princess Diana. This is not female life as we know it but a recent evolutionary development: the less than divine androgyne. Read more

Torture Garden returns to Paris – June 5th 2010

Torture Garden is returning to Paris this summer after the warm reception to their inaugural event in June last year at Glazart. Their second full-scale event will take place June 5th 2010 at the newly refurbished La Machine – a club that some may know of as Locomotive in the heart of Paris’s sleaze district Pigalle. Read more

Next Issue of Skin Two LateXtra is On The Way…

We are busy preparing issue 33 of Skin Two LateXtra – the magazine given away free at fetish shops and clubs across the UK, established over ten years. If you have a story from the fetish scene to tell, we’d like to hear it, so get in touch! Read more

A Deafening Violence, by Nusrat Howard-Moore featuring Esinem

This is the music video submitted by filmmaker Nusrat Howard-Moore to the South Yorkshire Film Network’s music video competition 2Weeks 2Make It ,where filmmakers are paired up by ballot with rising star bands. Read more

German Fetish Ball 2010 – Hamburg

German Fetish Ball is a great favourite – surely Europe’s top fetish festival, now with five days of pervy partying! After several years in Berlin, they have moved to Hamburg for 2010. It’s the centre of the fetish scene in Germany and a great town to visit. The move enables them to have an official party hotel, which is always a big plus. And their fetish fair event is now in a major exhibition centre – This is the biggest German Fetish Ball Weekend yet!
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Love Hurts… But in a Good Way Friday May 21st, Portland, Oregon

Love Hurts, a play/sex party for the queer community of Portland and the surrounding areas, is coming to the Valhalla Dungeon. All genders are encouraged to attend, including trans, cis-male, cis-female, gender non-conforming, gender queer and everything in between. The second Love Hurts of 2010 guarantees to be a chaotic sweaty and kinky time! Remember to bring your own toys and tools. Admission to the event is $10 and includes two free raffle tickets for some amazing prizes and an array of snacks and non-alcoholic drinks. Read more

Mark Ramsden – Reebok Toned Butts – The Movie

I sometimes wonder why we bother with fetish media when mainstream content is so focussed on our deepest desires. Toned female derrieres in skimpy sportswear? Jiggling, joggling flesh under sunny skies? A Reebok ad campaign sheds light on this vitally important issue. Men will love this and women will presumably be keen on a training shoe that ‘tones your butt’. Read more

The Absolute Fetish & BDSM Festival in Greece

The Greek fetish and BDSM community has thousands of members. That may be a surprise if you consider the population of the country but, if you check the most popular forums, you will find more than twenty thousand people. Most of them are in the two major cities: Athens and Thessalonica. Read more

The Best of Bondage

Best of Bondage is a new photo book with a super collection of black and white images. It is one of a new series of books by publishing house Goliath to celebrate “Ten years of thrilling bondage photography”. This edition includes over two hundred photos in a hardback, pocket-sized book.

This is a compilation of beautiful photography which includes the best of Goliath’s erotic photography books. There’s a section of images from bondage photographer and artist Midori’s Sensual Bondage that has an “intense as well as disturbing setting”. There are also shots from Asia Bondage by Steven Speliotis, Cool Bondage by Roman Kasperski and L.A. Bondage by Dave Naz, to name a few. Laura M. Stansfield has a wonderful retro collection called Bondage which with what appears to be real damsels in distress and Generation Fetish by Lee Higgs is a really interesting and arty collection.

These photographs are truly fantastic and being in black and white gives the book an even more erotic and artistic feel.

If you have a passion for different kinds of bondage, gorgeous women being tied up or just an interest in really good photography, this book is a must!

Buy Best of Bondage from Goliath Books
Roxanne Dorrington

Mark Ramsden – Gordon’s missed photo op

Was at Strood supermarket while Gordon Brown did photo op, we weren’t chosen for vox pop – Ruth in Guardsman’s red striped hat and kinky boots and myself in Skintwo.com baseball cap and bright red patent leather bovver boots, both wearing Goat of Mendes pendants. Another reason to vote for change?

MarkRamsden.co.uk

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