The Latex Store Where Gaga Gets Her Wardrobe
Meet The Baroness (yes, that’s her name) who owns one of the hundreds of boutiques in the East Village. What makes her store different is that everything sold in the store is made out of latex. A former lingerie designer with designs featured at Bloomingdales and Fredericks of Hollywood, The Baroness made a switch to [...]
Unleashed: Britain’s secret world of dominatrixes
Britain’s dominatrix business is booming, with S&M chic back in fashion and ‘bondage pop’ riding high in the charts. But what is life really like for the professionals – and their £200-an-hour slaves? The award-winning photographer Kate Peters reveals all It’s been described as England’s dirty secret, and was once the gleeful preserve of the [...]
Making a living out of pain
Wearing thigh-high boots and a long black coat, Paige* greets us warmly as we arrive in the courtyard of a home in a gated neighbourhood in Joburg’s northern suburbs. A striking woman, she leads us through the cosy, femininely furnished house and then up the stairs into a room lit only by a few spotlights. [...]
British attitude towards sex continues to evolve
When Cypriot Savvas Christodoulou came to Britain in the 1990s, he found a society very uptight about sex, says he. He couldn’t understand why we were so formal and unable to express ourselves sexually. So he decided to do something about it and launched the adult lifestyle show Erotica – a mixture of bondage, latex, [...]
New erection-enhancing condom nears approval
Men who have trouble maintaining erections when wearing a condom may get a boost from a new product dubbed the “Viagra condom.” British biotech company Futura Medical has created a new condom, currently known as CSD500, that is coated on the inside with a vasodilator gel that increases blood flow and results in a stronger, [...]
Do Dominants Really Need Aftercare?
Aftercare is a much debated topic among those who are into the rough and tumble play of BDSM. Whose responsible, what is needed and how long it should last are often discussed, but with the submissive in mind. Dominant aftercare is a phrase you almost never hear. Dominants don’t need no stinkin’ aftercare! They just [...]
