My yoyo presents – bedroom shoes from Ainsley-t

Lace boots, satin sandals, bedroom slippers – these are the objects of desire created for My yoyo of Milan by designer Stuart Thom for Ainsley-t. Read more

Spanksticks – Gleaming Black Rubber Canes!

Spanksticks are a super new product, ideal for anyone who enjoys a bit of corporal punishment – and fancies combining it with rubber… 
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FetMart – Kink Auctions and Adult Marketplace

FetMart allows anyone to cheaply list and sell fetish gear of all kinds. No more carting your BDSM stuff to the local fetish event and trying to sell it – you can sell it on a site that specialises in kink, where kink people go to shop. Read more

Erolife – New Online Fetish Community

Erolife is a new online community covering a broad range of alternative sexuality, through fetish, BDSM and swinging. The site is technically up to date and fully featured, with video chat, feature articles, calendar of events, model portfolios, fiction, photography, profiles and contacts. Read more

Arcanum Accessories: Felicitous Finery for the Fetish Fancier….

With years of experience and a devoted following, Lickorishlatex proved that rubber could be beautiful and stylish, whilst maintaining the highest quality. So what can we expect from founder and designer Joanna Degisi and her exciting new company, Arcanum Accessories. Read more

Sidonia von Bork and the Bondage Dolly – Live Show

Sidonia von Bork is one of England’s top dominatrixes, owner of a famous female domination website and a talented photographer under the alias “Ariel Belle” Read more

Set yourself up online with WeWhipAss.com

WeWhipAss.com is a brand new and totally unique global networking site for the fetish and BDSM community.

Along with the usual social networking features that include personalised profiles with photo and video galleries, blogs, video chat and more, the truly unique features on WeWhipAss.com are the online store and webcam portal.

As a member you can set up your own e-commerce web store and sell almost anything you can think of from worn stockings or shoes to photo sets and video clips. And if you are a webcam performer or just interested in making money from pure online exhibitionism, you can set up your business, and start making money right now.

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About WeWhipAss.com
Set up by Miss WhipAss and her two adult daughters with financial aid from a secret backer and superb webmaster, Miss WhipAss says: ” …being dragged up by Nuns in a Irish girls’ institute gave me the strength of character and will power of a true dominant woman. Thanks to those involved, I have created the website of my dreams”

Ropeslut and his Muse – Japanese Rope Bondage

Traditional Japanese rope bondage is one of the most thoughtful and sophisticated ways to enjoy your sexuality with your partner and Ropselut – together with his Muse Petra – really show you how very cool it can be. You only have to watch them to want to try it for yourself. Read more

Fetisch Film Festival – 25th to 29th October 2011, Kiel

There are some great films with a fetish theme out there, but they can be hard to find and far too many people never see them. However, you can discover the very best of them, all in one place, at the Fetisch Film Festival in Kiel, Germany. If you’ve film and you love fetish, you must visit Kiel in October.

The focus is on independent narrative films. Most are in the English language, or at least with English subtitles. There will be discussions, parties and an exposition of fetish photography by Carlos Kella. At the end, awards are given to the best films and the event closes with a big BDSM party.

This year, you can see a screening of last years winner, American Fetish, as well as the best selection of new fetish films anywhere. Fetisch Film Festival presents new films by Carlos Atanes, Jordan Canning, Maria Coletsis, Alex D., Vivian Darkbloom, Jonathan Desoindre, Chelsea Downs, Renaud Ducoing, Mrs G., Sloan Garrett, Kyle Henry, Julia Leigh, Michael Leonberger, Emmanuel Malherbe, Harvey Mandlin, Faith Michaels, Sebastiano Montresor, David Philip, Caeser Pink, Matthew Saliba, Eric Schaeffer, Irving Schwartz, Malcolm Sherwood, Michael Skiff, Pepe Smit, John Toda, Jake Yuzna, Hong Khaou, Takafumi Watanabe and Yusuke Narita.

www.fetisch-film-festival.de
English blog here

Fetisch Film Festival on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY06KGLRyqw

American Fetish is here – www.americanfetishfilm.com

Collars, a question of faith? Opinion piece by Cynth Icorn

Over the past few years, outward displays of faith have been a hot topic, but now the debate has taken a route which makes it more relevant than ever to fetishists. A midwife in Bedford has been dismissed from work for wearing an emblem of her beliefs, her silver slave collar. (See Article) She has taken the matter to the courts because she believes that this is a discriminatory act. North and East Herts Health Authority refuted this claim, stating that the issue was purely a matter of health and safety. The midwife then stood her ground, referring to the allowances made for others to wear symbols of more traditional belief e.g crucifix necklaces.

The slave collar is a symbol of submission and commitment within a consensual Dominant/ submissive relationship. The exact way in which a D/s relationship works may differ from couple to couple, but can involve rules and codes of behaviour and will always involve a power exchange to different degrees.

The core of the issue is based around whether the law feels it safe to recognise consensual slavery and the Dominant/submissive lifestyle in court. This, as all fetishists know, would be a huge step away from the discrimination put upon fetishists continually considering instances such as The Spanner Case and The Extreme Pornography Legislation. Fetishism is continually promoted as an aesthetic in music videos, runway collections and photo shoots but, as soon as it is more than just dress up and titillation, the tide turns and fetishists are seen in an extremely negative light -with the eyes of a voyeur at a freak show.

There is a continuing battle within society between the allure of fetish and moral disgust. Because of this, we are cowed by vague laws which, if they apply to our activities could lead to heavy sentencing as well as professional and social exile. So many fetishists must be careful to hide their lifestyle from outsiders because of such fears. One famous example is the model Bianca Beauchamp. When she started out she was also a primary school teacher – the school found her modelling site and she was told to choose between fetish modelling or teaching. I am sure we all know this is not a rare occurrence and most likely can name people we know who have been in similar situations. Surely we are a society of stable enough minds to understand that, just because a person is of a certain persuasion – be it a religious, sexual or lifestyle based – they are not necessarily a threat to others. Beliefs are not contagious; with open mindedness, education and confidence in oneself people are able to understand each other’s beliefs without feeling the need to surrender to them.

Of course, within this case there is the fear of condoning dysfunctional behaviour which may be oppressive and possibly harmful. I understand that it can be hard to convey to those outside the lifestyle that D/s can be natural for certain people and that, if these people are forced to function in a ‘normal’ relationship, this may be more damaging than allowing them to act in the way which feels right to them.

A comprehensive explanation of D/s relationships and fetishistic lifestyles would be needed to aid the courts and the general populous in understanding that, although these dynamics may appear strange and even unsettling, they are entirely harmless if done safely and consensually. But I feel they must be shown the existence of fetishism outside of sex for many people, demonstrating the importance of fetish as far more than simply a primal sexual urge – being at times a way of loving, living and experiencing.

Consider someone who enjoys pleasing others, or one who feels comfortable giving direction. These are not character faults, unless taken to the extreme. Within D/s relationships, these people balance each other and are enabled to work harmoniously together as a unit. Also think of tribal rituals which have long used pain, sensory deprivation and other tests of will power to enhance or enlighten the participants, whether as a form of teaching or as a way of experiencing something greater. A fetishist is not unlike these devotees, opening themselves to a fuller spectrum of feeling encompassing controlled experiences of pain, fear and vulnerability. Pushing themselves psychologically to mindsets alien to the most of society, not unlike monks, shamans and pychonaughts. If these people can be considered sane and safe, then surely it is the assumed deviant and sexual edge always associated with fetishists which causes our dilemma and, if this is removed, the way can be cleared for fetishistic freedom.

Cynth Icorn

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