 | Dominatrix Mar ’13
Dominatrix reconvened at its new venue outside Amsterdam in March for another night of deviant dining and pervy partying...Read more
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 | TG Feb + May 2013
We combine a belated report on TG’s Valentine’s Ball with a timely look at what’s lined up for its May Birthday Weekend...Read more
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 | Rubber Bastard
Mistress Tokyo reveals the recipe for successful Aussie latex parties cooked up by the Rubber Bastard Association’s founders...Read more
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 | Rubber Cult II
New galleries added to report on London’s second rubber-only night with likes of Atsuko Kudo, Robin Archer and Kim West...Read more
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 | TG’s Not New Year
We find holding its New Year’s Eve party 24 hours early worked for Torture Garden, and preview its 2013 event schedule...Read more
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 | Gate December
The Gate’s last date of 2012 could have been a quiet one, but it was full of Christmas cheer with play and socialising aplenty...Read more
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 | TG Edinburgh Dec
Heidi Patterson has just enjoyed a second serving of TG in Edinburgh, even finding time to research some tourist tips for us...Read more
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 | Wasteland Nov ’12
Irresistible Iris braves the crowds to enjoy the vibe and watch shows headlined by Bizarre Design’s 25th birthday extravaganza...Read more
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 | Dominatrix rising
On the strength of its November showing, Dominatrix is an event destined for great things on the European party scene...Read more
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 | Manita’s Showboat
Mistress Manita’s Showboat parties near Amsterdam combine fetish dresscode rules and pervy play to unique effect...Read more
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 | EuroPerve returns
Hosted by DeMask, EuroPerve Resurrection proved there’s still a place for serious fetish parties in Amsterdam...Read more
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 | Rubber Cult Birth
The first London fetish club with a rubber-only dresscode, Rubber Cult enjoyed a pain-free birth in London last month...Read more
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 | TG at Electrowerkz
Whatever your reasons for heading up to Torrens Street in September, TG at Electrowerks was a night to remember...Read more
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 | Berlin ’12 Report 3
Returning to its spiritual Berlin home and collaborating with local businesses has revitalised the German Fetish Ball...Read more
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 | Xplore Festival ’12
Xplore Festival examines the intersection between body arts and creative sexuality. Mistress Tokyo offers an insider view...Read more
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 | TG ’togs exposed
This week’s photography exhibition at the Flying Dutchman not only gives five of TG’s longest serving ’togs a nice show...Read more
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 | Berlin ’12 Report 2
Heidi Patterson is glad she found time for locally promoted Berlin events like the Fetish Network party at KitKatClub...Read more
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 | Berlin ’12 Report 1
In our first Berlin report: why the returning GFB, the locally-run BFW and the city itself were a winning combo at Whitsun...Read more
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 | TG Edinburgh
TG’s Edinburgh outing in June showed that Scottish pervs are finally getting what proper fetish partying is all about...Read more
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 | Torture Garden 21
Part 2 of our TG Birthday report finds the shows keeping things hot at the Coronet despite wintery weather...Read more
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 | FetishEvolution ’12
After a quiet 2011, this year’s Fetish Evolution was back on form as a prime party/networking event and model-shoot fest...Read more
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 | Decadence play
Enthusiastic, exhibitionistic young kinksters help Decadence show the world a bolder and better looking side of BDSM play...Read more
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 | Kink Bar is open
A new London social/play venue launched last week will open every Wednesday initially and expand if there’s demand ...Read more
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 | TG Valentines chill
Starting its Valentines weekend with a cracking Friday night on HMS President, TG hit a cold weather front on Saturday...Read more
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 | Inner move + sale
Pictures from Inner Sanctum’s new showroom, opening party and Obsession fashion show as it holds a Valentines’ sale...Read more
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 | TG 2011/NYE/2012
With its NYE sell-out, TG ended one of its best years on a high, and now looks forward keenly to a busy 21st birthday year...Read more
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 | Fetisch Film Fest
At the Fetisch Film Festival in Kiel, near Hamburg, transgender themes dominated, winning both in general and special categories...Read more
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 | TG Halloween 2011
Torture Garden’s Halloween double sold out Mass and the Coronet, the latter featuring spectacular fashion from Roadkill Couture...Read more
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 | Rubber Awards
Club Rub’s 14th Annual Rubber Awards onboard HMS President in mid-October had £2,500 in prizes from big-name donors ...Read more
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 | London Fetish 2011
At last our mega-report from London Fetish Weekend, featuring the views of four writers, and 277 photographs...Read more
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 | Flying Dutchman
London celebrated the opening in early September of new venue The Flying Dutchman, a fetish-friendly private space in SE5...Read more
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 | German Fetish Ball
Five new galleries with 90+ German Fetish Fair and Fetish Decadence images complete our report from Hamburg’s 2nd GFB ...Read more
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 | Fetish Factory 16th
Mistress Tokyo gets suited and booted and immerses herself in Florida-style pervy partying at Fetish Factory’s 16th...Read more
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 | TG June Boat Party
After providing London with a second boat party in May, TG reboarded HMS President in June for more nautical fun ...Read more
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 | Torture Garden 20
Our report from TG’s 20th birthday weekend in May is updated with three more galleries from Saturday and Sunday parties...Read more
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 | Barcelona Fetish
The new Barcelona Fetish Weekend didn’t get everything right first time, but its future looks rosy, thinks Roswell Ivory...Read more
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 | FetishEvo’11 Part 2
Part 2 of our report from Fetish Evolution adds 75 new pix of shows by FetiWear, Lady Oops, Bondinage and Brigitte More...Read more
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 | TG March updated
Following its final event at SeOne/ Debut, TG gave the upper and lower levels of Mass an alternative look for March’s party...Read more
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 | The Gate returns
Legendary BDSM night The Gate re-opened in London in February, marking the return of Master Keith to the scene...Read more
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 | TG Valentines Ball
The stage set for Torture Garden’s Valentines fashion show by Sian Hoffman provided sgreat heart- shaped photo opps...Read more
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 | December Sloth
After its Sloth night in December, we’re waiting to hear where FOS will go next. For now, here’s our take on Sloth’s shows...Read more
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 | Devotion III Madrid
Spanish fetish clubbing is enjoying a new lease of life in Madrid thanks to Devotion. We report on the club’s third event...Read more
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 | Torture Gdn NYE
TG’s New Year’s Eve Ball at Mass is one of the nights when a well-tried formula really does work to everyone’s advantage...Read more
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 | Erotica 2010
Dita Von Teese made Erotica cool for a big new female audience, and Torture Garden put on a show with plenty of perv appeal...Read more
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 | TG Halloween
Our report on TG’s extravaganza at Debut has exclusive pictures of the headlining suspension show by LA’s amazing Miss Crash...Read more
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 | Montreal Fetish
Montreal Fetish Weekend has matured into an ambitious, inclusive event that survives the occasional rough edge...Read more
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 | Fest of Sins: Wrath
With its relaunch at The Den & Centro, Festival of Sins proved it was ready to make the transition to full-scale club night...Read more
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 | London Fetish Wkd
MissFuzzyBunny found coming from Denmark for LFW worthwhile for its great parties hosted by Subversion and Torture Garden...Read more
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 | London Tattoo Con
We dip into another area of alternative culture at the Tattoo Convention, with performance artist Yusura Hime...Read more
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 | Latexpo report
New Hamburg weekend Latexpo made its mark with a media-savvy presentation of fetish fashion in classy catwalk shows...Read more
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 | Fetish Factory 15th
Photographer Richard Knightly turns reporter on his trip to Florida with Emma Alexa for a first taste of Fetish Factory fun...Read more
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 | GFB hits Hamburg
A second account by Roswell Ivory and additional galleries with 272 new photos complete our German Fetish Ball report ...Read more
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 | Fetish Evolution
“How did you find Essen?” we asked Shirley de Schutter of Rubberluv. By turning right at Belgium, apparently...Read more
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 | Berlin Fetish Wknd
Reporter ‘db’ explains why for him, the more relaxed vibe of this new event was preferable to following the glitz to Hamburg...Read more
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 | TG Birthday 2010
Bad weather and tight finances may have trimmed numbers at TG’s weekend but the Ball was better for being less crowded...Read more
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 | Alt Fashion Week
Latex labels Am-Statik and Lady Lucie made their first appearances on London’s Alternative Fashion Week catwalk in April...Read more
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 | Heresy ’n’ Heelz
H ’n’ H’s first birthday celebrations in March provided the perfect excuse for Dave ‘Darcy’ Edmond to revisit his old home...Read more
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 | RUB in a new light
After moving to The Lightbox and making a few tweaks to the layout, Club RUB was set to celebrate its 13th birthday in April ...Read more
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 | AntiChrist March
AntiChrist returns to stage one helluva party, with a timely Alice In Wonderland theme and headliners Sigue Sigue Sputnik...Read more
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 | TG Valentines Ball
Tony Mitchell arrives at Torture Garden’s packed Valentine’s Ball just in time to see Kaori’s Latex Dreams’ SeOne debut...Read more
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 | Lustful Valentine
Lacing Lilith returned to Festival of Sins for a Valentine’s salute to the event that presented their first ever fashion show ...Read more
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 | London Edge play
Tony Mitchell considers why so few fetish labels participated in February’s alt-fashion trade show London Edge ...Read more
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 | Immorality + Lust
Viktoria Modesta and Am-Statik both impressed at December’s Immorality FoS and now February promises Lust...Read more
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 | TG’s NYE and year
A fab end-of-year party that nearly didn’t happen, plus a look at TG’s own review of its successes and failures during 2009...Read more
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 | TG’s Winter Wonder
December partying got off to a flying start with TG’s Christmas special topping London’s bill on the first weekend...Read more
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 | Tease DVDs party
The UK DVD release of Bettie Page movies Varietease and Teaserama is celebrated with a party at Madame JoJos...Read more
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 | TG Halloween 2009
TG’s Halloween was a classic kinksters’ night out. Our report features Jane Doe fashion show and audience galleries...Read more
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 | LFW: Parties + fair
Our photo report on this year’s Xpo-less London Fetish Weekend covers Subversion, Torture Garden, LAM and more...Read more
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 | Wedding by Regan
The wedding of Festival of Sins’ May LR and David De Vynél provides some great subject matter for Daniel Regan’s camera...Read more
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 | Swiss SeXorcisto
Switzerland is not famous for fetish parties but Sexorcisto in Lausanne is hoping to change that, says Swiss model SadEast...Read more
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 | Dark Burlesque
Veronika Valentine’s Dark Burlesque travelling show launches at the seaside and we’ve added new pictures by Dee Bee...Read more
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 | London bond–fest
June’s London Festival of the Art of Japanese Bondage was a gamble that paid off for hosts Esinem and Resistance Gallery ...Read more
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 | AntiChrist’s Fifth
The promise of a memorable party persuaded a lot more fetish people to join the pvc-erati at AntiChrist’s fifth birthday...Read more
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 | Festival of gluttony
June FoS’s greed theme provided an excuse for some cake-crazed performances, while in the audience, geeks ruled...Read more
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 | BoundCon Munich
Uwe Schwinghammer wonders whether Munich’s BoundCon is now set to rival Germany’s ‘big two’ fetish fests...Read more
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 | German Fetish 09
Our GFB report looks back on events of the long weekend, with more words and pictures to follow soon...Read more
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 | TG Birthday 2009
TG’s Birthday Ball went from shortfall to virtual sell-out in a few days, but Friday’s opener could’ve used more bodies...Read more
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 | Crimson launch
Crimson’s launch clashed with two established London nights, but its rock ’n’ BDSM policy still pulled in a good crowd...Read more
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 | Fetish Evo 2009
Essen report by Tony Mitchell and Dave Edmond: Models & Makers reception, Expo/Art Bizarre, Pre-Party and Ball...Read more
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 | AntiChrist February
AntiChrist celebrated its success as London’s goth/fetish crossover club with a stunning suspension show by AMF Korsets...Read more
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 | StripLite Dictators
Chrys Columbine and Frank Sanazi brought very different styles of entertainment to London’s first StripLite of 2009...Read more
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 | Adventurous Gwen
Revived for a short season, The Adventures of Gwendoline has taken temporary residence at a private London club...Read more
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 | Berlin Revolution
Berlin’s Fetish Guerilla Revolution and NuiNight team up at the KitKat Club to host the warm-up for Bohème-Noir...Read more
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 | TG New Year’s Ball
Torture Garden’s sell-out New Year’s Eve Ball was a recession-defying mix of wild stage shows and frenzied partying...Read more
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 | Festival of Greed
FoS has been cycling through the seven deadly sins for 18 months, and arrived at greed for its final outing of 2008...Read more
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 | StripLite: Eat Me
Striplite on the last Friday of every month is a club where we’ve come to feel very welcome, thanks to May, Nathan and co...Read more
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 | Kiwis get kinky
Our New Zealand correspondent, LilDevil, fills us in on the Southern Exposure conference and the Sin City Fetish Ball...Read more
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 | Subversion’s 4th
Some people have cake and candles, but there was rather more on offer at Subversion’s 4th birthday party...Read more
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 | Erotica 08, London
Erotica may not be a fetish event, but it attracts a substantial number of fetish firms. And TG were back as show producers...Read more
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 | Xpo fashion models
Designer and model credits for our 2008 Xpo fashion shows, complete Saturday galleries, and EmmaJ’s director’s angle...Read more
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 | Pelzer’s LFW pix!
This fine LFW portfolio by the Berlin photographer and Fetish Guerilla includes first Subversion and TG galleries ...Read more
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 | Friday Xpo diary
First impressions of the Xpo’s opening day, from photo calls to fashion shows, from multi-taskers Josselin and Sarah...Read more
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 | Xpo unsung heroes
We celebrate the work of our Fashion At The Barbican backstage team with a peek inside the models’ dressing room...Read more
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 | Fetishistas party
London Fetish Weekend got off to a grand start with The Fetishistas’ Movers, Shakers & Stirrers Cocktail Party...Read more
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 | TG Summer Ball
Torture Garden’s Summer Ball pulled a crowd many a club would die for in August. Sarah and Josselin were there...Read more
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 | StripLite’s cakefest
From the people behind Festival of Sins, StripLite is another new monthly London event offering something different...Read more
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 | Resistance Gallery
London welcomes Resistance Gallery, a new fetish-friendly venue hosting everything from kink to corporate...Read more
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 | Batcave revisited
London’s seminal Batcave club, an early haven for those with fetish leanings, is revived for one night by the AntiChrist people...Read more
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 | Martin Pelzer’s GFB
Martin Pelzer offers his personal view of Berlin’s big weekend with this portfolio from the German Fetish Ball ...Read more
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 | Fetish Factory 13
It’s not easy to find something new to say about a pervy weekend that unerringly delivers such a good time every year...Read more
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 | Wasteland in April
A stalwart of the LA scene and a regular face at London events, Veronica had not been to a party in Amsterdam before...Read more
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 | GFB 2008 Berlin
The German Fetish Ball once again attracted an international crowd with its roster of parties, shopping and more parties...Read more
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 | TG Birthday Ball
Torture Garden’s Birthday biggie seen through the eyes of Anglo- French team Sarah Whittaker and Josselin Guichard...Read more
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 | TG Friday studio
Gothic Image studio pix from the TG/Fetishistas International Fetish Ball that launched this year’s TG Birthday Weekend ...Read more
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 | Alt Fashion Week
Latex style from the wild and way-out to the truly wearable took London’s Alternative Fashion Week by storm...Read more
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 | AntiChrist February
Given the success of Club AntiChrist’s launch in November, Roswell Ivory couldn’t resist February’s follow-up...Read more
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 | Fetish Evolution 08
Tony Mitchell gets a taste of Europe’s first big fetish fest of the year, as pervs from around the world party in Essen...Read more
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 | LA KinkBall 2008
The second LA KinkBall Weekend in mid-February proved what a great location LA is for major international pervery...Read more
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 | RUB Army Jan ’08
Club RUB's military and uniforms night in January was our first chance to check out new venue Parker McMillan...Read more
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 | West Coast Ball
Online retail giant Stockroom.com and its fetish fashion arm Syren sponsored the new Annual West Coast Fetish Ball in LA...Read more
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 | Paris-London Xmas
Jan FetishClubPix promises words and pictures from Paris and London's big Christmas fetish parties any day now ...Read more
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 | Masque III at El Cid
LA’s kinky dinner-cabaret night finds a venue befitting its ambitions at Hollywood’s historic El Cid Dinner Theater...Read more
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 | Soho book launch
London perverati head down to Amora, the city’s new erotic museum, for the launch of a pair of pervy books...Read more
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 | AntiChrist debut
Club AntiChrist arrived in November to offer a new kind of alternative nightlife experience in London’s West End ...Read more
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 | Skin Two overview
Eros Zine columnist Bongo Knight provide us with an American visitor’s perspective on the whole Rubber Ball Weekend...Read more
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 | TG Halloween 2007
A sold-out crowd of 1,850 haunted Brixton's old St Matthew’s Church, including the crypt, for TG’s celebration ...Read more
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 | Subversion Turns 3
London's newest old-established fetish club turned three at the start of November, after a rather nomadic existence...Read more
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 | Festival of Sins
Fast becoming known as London’s most debauched variety night, Festival of Sins had its third outing last month...Read more
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 | Xpo exhibitionists
Our second Xpo reports focuses on the exhibitors whose presence made it an unrivalled shopping experience ...Read more
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 | Emma’s kink show
On the eve of London’s big fetish weekend, La Galleria hosted the launch party for its Emma Delves- Broughton exhibition...Read more
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 | Barbican triumph
Our first 2007 RB Weekend report celebrates the success of the Xpo Barbican and its Fetishistas’ fashion shows...Read more
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 | Fetish Con 2007
Michael Diamond survives a long weekend’s partying in August in sunny Florida to send this report from Fetish Con...Read more
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 | Underground style
Opening day of the recent Berlin Fashion Week saw an alternative show staged beneath the city’s streets...Read more
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 | Fetish Factory’s 12
In words and images Steve Mars paints a vivid portrait of Fetish Factory’s 12th annual fetish showstopper ...Read more
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 | Amsterdam’s Clinic
Slutty Latex Boy, who performed at Saturday's Party with Empress Victoria and Dante Posh, recalls his adventures ...Read more
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 | German FBW 2007
The German Fetish Ball Weekend again attracted pervs from around the world to Berlin. Fetish Ball galleries now added!...Read more
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 | ForePlay launch
To mark our UK launch, The Fetishistas threw a party called ForePlay. Gothic Image ForePlay gallery now added!...Read more
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 | TG Birthday 2007
12 years after his last visit to London, Fakir Musafar was guest of honour at TG’s Birthday Ball. New galleries! ...Read more
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 | Fetish Evolution
Judy Wallis decides to blow her wad on a trip to Essen at Easter to experience Germany’s ‘other’ big fetish weekend...Read more
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 | LA Kink Ball
Los Angeles perverati turned out in force for Slave2Fashion, the opening night of the first LA Kink Ball Weekend...Read more
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 | German FBW 2006
Set to enjoy its fourth outing in Berlin this May, the German Fetish Ball weekend has quickly established itself as...Read more
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 | Fetish Factory 11th
When my Virgin Atlantic flight landed in Miami a few days before Fetish Factory’s 11 Year Anniversary weekend...Read more
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 | Absolute Kink
Staging a new four-day fetish fest in April in Amsterdam, so close to Europe’s other big spring 2006 events, was quite ...Read more
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