Many Paths to Submissive Heaven – and FemDom Films.com

Most people imagine that a dominatrix thrashes cringing submissive men with a whip. Hence the term “Miss Whiplash”. That’s the expression everyone immediately understands to mean a woman paid by men to dominate them. Whenever you see an image of a dominatrix used to promote a TV show or spice up a film poster, there’s the key visual of the whip, the riding crop or the swishy cane – and of course the thigh boots. When straight people discover that I’m involved in the world of SM and fetish, one of the first things they ask is why on earth do these weird men long to be beaten and hurt? Having experienced a thoroughly nasty third-rate English public school education, where young boys were caned until they cried, I also used to wonder why, for goodness sake, anyone would so badly want to be beaten that they would actually pay to have this done to them…

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Advertising Your Fetish Business

Since 1984, Skin Two Magazine has carried the advertising of businesses serving the BDSM/fetish market worldwide. I have seen a lot of fetish businesses come and go over 26 years. So it might be useful for businesspeople in this market if I share a few things that I’ve picked up along the way about what works and what doesn’t, when it comes to advertising and promoting a fetish business…

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David Aaron Clark, 1960 – 2009

David Aaron Clark was a true pioneer of the BDSM world. As Editor of Screw magazine in New York, David reviewed a book I published a million years ago and we knew at once we were friends. He moved to San Francisco in 1995 and we shipped crates of Skin Two magazines to his home South of Market. There was gunfire in the street outside. Midori put wasabi into his mouth then sewed his lips shut. His girlfriend was the craziest dominatrix in town. David moved to LA and became a film director. You could say he lived the life. David’s novels, journalism and performance art were the most vivid around – seek them out – but his private life was his real art. David Aaron Clark died on November 28th 2009. Below is his memorial video and here is a story he gave me. I always meant to publish it. He was talented, kind and a gentleman to the core. Rest in peace David.
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If You Read it on the Internet, It’s Bollocks

If you read it on the internet, it’s complete bollocks. Doesn’t matter whether we’re talking about BDSM, the general election or alternative medicine. The subject matter is totally irrelevant – it’s all nonsense.

When Gutenberg introduced the movable type printing press to Europe in the fifteenth century, mass communication arrived with a bang, spreading political, artistic and scientific ideas and liberating us from church-controlled dogma. A vital catalyst for the renaissance. Freedom, after centuries of ignorance and repression. A very good thing, surely? Read more

Calling 1940s Lingerie Lovers – New Photo Book from What Katie Did

“A Serious Study of Mid-20th Century Lingerie” is a super new photo book, oozing with sexy retro images of lingerie, stockings, corsets and high heels…

There are 100 A4 pages and around 100 large colour photos by Tony Nylons, who clearly loves his work. It’s done with a lovely balance of style – always very sexy, but not porny or sleazy. If you like images of women in sexy ’40s lingerie, buy this book. Read more

Skin Two Rubber Ball 2009 Galleries

Our first galleries taken over the Rubber Ball Weekend 2009, with more photos to be added as we receive them from the various photographers that were present at Club Rub, the LAM Skin Two Special, The Rubber Ball and the F Club After Party. Read more

Skin Two Fetish Yearbook 2009 Launch Party

Our friends at Club RUB held a party for the new Skin Two Fetish Yearbook at Last Days of Decadence in Shoreditch. The place was packed and it was great to see a load of old friends turn out for a few drinks. The crowd included the cover model from Skin Two issue 1 in 1984, our first Webmistress, as well as several writers and photographers we’ve featured. Read more