Forniphilia & other words from my 1st fetish party
Before attending my first fetish party, I had no idea some people fantasized about turning a human being into a piece of furniture. So I went to my first fetish party last night, dressed as a dominatrix. In my defense, it wasn’t my idea. I am in Prague this week and a friend told me [...]
The Twin Cities fetish scene unbridled
Mistress Bardot slides into the latex nun habit, her gloved hand smoothing the veil against her cheekbone. She emerges from backstage, charmingly steps into the crowd, and greets friends who traveled thousands of miles to see her. The Mistress begins her ascension to the stage, gracefully parting the kinky people like a sexual sea. Bardot’s [...]
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, [...]
