December 2024

LIBIDEX BLOG 2024 PT1: HIGHLIGHTS FROM MONTHS JANUARY-JUNE As we prepare to say goodbye to 2024 and to welcome in 2025, the time has arrived to look back on another full year’s worth of our revived and revamped Blog stories in Libidex Blog 2024 Pt1. So here in the first part of our 2024 retrospective, we’re reminding ourselves (and our...

PRELUDE: TOBY LAUNCHES TRANSGRESSION BOOK & SOHO POP-UPLondon artist Toby Mott has just published Prelude: Transgression in the UK, the first follow-up to his call, announced in our July 12 Blog story, for fetish flyers and other printed ephemera from the 1980s fetish scene and beyond for a planned book and exhibition.Prelude and Mott’s other books and collectable artefacts are...

HELMUT NEWTON: BERLIN, BERLIN MARKS CITY’S LIFELONG INFLUENCEThe late Helmut Newton is one of the photographic giants most often quoted as an influence by photographers who work today in the fetish genre. What gave Newton his fetish appeal was the talent he established for shooting erotic, stylised fashion images, often with sado-masochistic and fetishistic subtexts, in a way that, by...

FELINE FESTIVE? 24 BEST-SELLING SECOND SKIN STYLES AT 10% OFF The latex catsuit must surely be the single most iconic garment in the the modern latex wardrobe, thanks to its strong associations with everything from hardcore BDSM and fetish interests to mainstream erotic glamour, not forgetting the worlds of superheroes and cosplay. Today’s latex catsuits are a world away from...