Rubber Rendezvous – London’s meeting place for rubberists and the rubber-curious

We’ve all fantasized about it haven’t we? ‘What!’ I hear you cry behind a muffled gag, ‘The same fantasy? Impossible!’

Well I’m messing with you a bit here because what I believe we all fantasize about is the perfect fetish event. You know the one: the music is eclectic, quiet in one room, loud in another, but never overbearing. A night where the drunk, desperate or ignorant never stray across your play space, where there are warm, roomy changing facilities, no queues for the coats or toilets and alcohol prices don’t send the stock markets crashing. Read more

Club Lash… and Rosie Lugosi, Manchester’s Vampire Fetish Queen

Club Lash spanked its first bottom in April 1998. It all started in a tiny club in Manchester city centre. It was packed out on the first night and it’s been the same ever since. Read more

Fetish Rocks, Bury 11th April or 9th May

They’re kinky. They’re sexy. They’re fun. But what exactly is the point to “Fetish Rocks”, a show that mixes music and slideshows, latex and fashion, and can be found playing the second Sunday of each month at Partners Club in Bury?

The answer, for those who have yet to see it, is that Fetish Rocks is the seriously under-appreciated brainchild of Helen Hewitt and Howard Haigh, a pair of professional photographers and artists, who believe that what the kink community get up to in their spare time is deserving of celebration. Read more

The Kage Monthly in Bury, Lancashire

The Kage is absolutely the club I’d recommend if you live anywhere remotely within reach of Bury. It’s on the last Sunday of each month, tucked away in a back street. The place is on different levels, with a bar area for chilling out and chatting, various dimly lit hideaway rooms for behaving badly in, a dungeon for playing and – would you believe – a swimming pool where you can take a dip in your rubber. There’s even a pool table for posing on, bending over or, if you must, playing pool on. Read more

Folsom Street Fair 2009 review

The 2009 Folsom Street Fair has come and gone for San Francisco. As soon as the glitter, feathers, and stray cock rings have been swept up from the streets, the planning committee goes right back to work thinking of the future – with leather harness tan-lines burned into their chests by the bright Folsom sun. Read more

Torture Garden’s first outing to Paris

The first Torture Garden in Paris kicked off in the early evening on ‘La Plage’ an outdoor beach area complete with bar and deck chairs. OK, Glaz’art, an exhibition/performance space in a north-easterly quartier of Paris, was not created specifically for a fetish event, and high heels and sand don’t make for the best companions, but there was nice ambiance and it was a relaxing start to a long night. I missed the burlesque and cabaret but did arrive in time for a dramatic pyro-technology display finalé presented by La Compagnie Vatra Read more

16th Annual Bettie Page Look-alike Contest at SF’s Bondage A Go Go

At Midnight on March 18th 2009, “BETTIE PAGE IMMORTAL,” Bondage A Go Go’s 16th Annual Bettie Page Look-alike Contest took place in San Francisco. Read more