Chicks in Chains Party (Fetish Party) Wednesday 7th September 2005 featuring the Shot Girls from SOLIDARNOSC VODKA

Hosted at Opal, 36 Gloucester Rd, London SW7 4QT.
Complimentary Cocktail & Canapés Reception:
9.30pm to 10.30pm From Award Winning Restaurant L’Etranger

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Local author helps bring black lesbian voices to literary table with ‘Bliss,’ a novel about struggle with sexuality, family and sense of self.

Fiona Zedde is a chef with words, cooking up spicy, flavorful tales that she hopes will satisfy the appetite of a malnourished audience.

After giving readers appetizers of her writing skills in anthologies including “Best Lesbian Erotica 2004” and “Va-Va-Voom: Red Hot Lesbian Erotica,” Zedde serves up a full course helping in her debut novel, “Bliss,” which was released Aug. 2.

Charis Books & More, the 30-year-old lesbian-feminist bookstore where Zedde also works part-time, hosts a launch party for the paperback on Aug. 6. (Click here for more)

The HOTTEST event of the year is happening again! Meet HUNDREDS of your favorite models, shop for kinky toys, clothes, and much more! Attend numerous workshops and demonstrations, PARTY in the SUN and FUN of Florida with the sexiest and kinkiest adult fetish models on the NET!

It's convention year number FIVE! For those of you returning once again... welcome back! For all of you who are attending for the first time - you're going to have a blast! Check out "Our History" for the full story of how Fetish Con started and how it has grown since 2001! (Click here for more)

The Club Sin invites everyone to attend the second annual edition of the Montreal Fetish Weekend September 2nd, 3rd & 4th 2005. This 3 days 3 events celebration honors the 10th anniversary of Montreal's very own Polymorphe latex fashions with performances by international artists: Bianca Beauchamp, Storm, Darenzia, Aprella, Midori, Rubberella, Mademoiselle Karine, Bubbles, Alienatrix, Kinky Sara, Master Luk, and many more.

Including the Polymorphe 10th Anniversary Party, Fetish Friday and Freak Show! (Click here for more)

In-Sex, the group exhibition currently at Spin Gallery, is dedicated to sex-positive perversion. Curator Juno Youn had the rather daunting task of merging 22 participating artists into one space, where each artist approached the subject of sex in divergent and, in some cases, very unusual ways. Using both traditional and new media, the exhibition zeroes in on the tactile nature of sex: its smoothness, stickiness and depth of colour.

Artist Ab Ovo's small sculpture looks unassuming at first, but close up, the ostrich egg with rubber and metal looks like the latest thing in bondage gear. Its slick style and naughty sensibility is so evocative that it takes (pardon the pun) restraint not to fondle it. (Click here for more)

The strangest thing Matt Gleason has seen at soon-to-close ManRay nightclub isn't regular guests being led on leashes by black leather-clad mistresses.

"The fetish stuff isn't even weird anymore," said Gleason, who has worked at the Central Square landmark for six years.

Instead, it was the time a charter bus pulled up one fall night and out came about 50 drag queens, each of whom was over 50.

The man of many talents made waves in Mumbai back in 1999, with a photography exhibition on the Howrah bridge, his first solo showing. (Click here for more)

Beautification, erotic & banal

He’s a photographer, film-maker and cultural anthropologist. Ashish Avikunthak divides his time between California and Calcutta, working on his doctorate at Stanford University and filming and clicking with his cameras, the results of which can be seen in international film festivals and exhibitions around India.

The man of many talents made waves in Mumbai back in 1999, with a photography exhibition on the Howrah bridge, his first solo showing. (Click here for more)

Could sex play that involves pain and submission be, for some, a path to liberation?

Miles, Kim and Laura were in their living room, talking about how they first got into the lifestyle. Laura was in the easy chair, in a sleeveless flower print dress, her long brown hair framing intense brown eyes. Miles, sturdily built, with glasses, short cropped gray hair and a beard, was on a light-brown couch with the center seat folded down so he could rest a glass on its back. Kim, his wife, sat in a chair near the front door, heavy-lidded and quiet, wearing a summery black dress and a thick leather collar with a dangling brass ring.

I think I was five when I had a little boy licking my shoes," Laura was saying. "And I got in trouble, and they said, 'You can't do that,' and I thought, 'Yeah, sure I can. Watch. And these four will do it too.'" She says moments like those presaged a turning point, years later, when she was in Germany on her senior class trip. (Click here for more)

On the Fourth, this dominatrix blew the beach.

Inside the bedroom of a beachside apartment, a tall, muscular, Italian-American dominatrix with attractive, sharp features and multicolored dreads was putting a damsel named Lumina in some pretty serious distress. She wrapped the naked, feminine body in black plastic wrap, stretching the dense material down Lumina's arms and legs, binding her belly and chest, then finally, leaving enough space for her to breathe, covering her face.

Then Scary Mary Santa, who commanded this scene in black crotchless panties, fishnet stockings, and vinyl boots up to her knees, squirted lube on Lumina's fully wrapped body, hopped on top for a vigorous dry hump, and claimed that she had paid "millions of dollars for this Swedish doll." (Click here for more)

For some folks, pain equals pleasure

Mistress Kitten has a shopping problem.

When she hits Home Depot, it's not to buy yet another house plant or the latest trendy paint swatch colours. She combs the aisles, like a cat on the prowl, for items such as rope, clamps, rods and switches, which she'll later use to deliver a bittersweet sting like a backslap on a sunburn to her esteemed clients.

In fact, you might hear her purring with anticipation at the checkout as she unloads her cart of goodies. This is her job, but it is also her feline fancy. (Click here for more)