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TORTURE GARDEN 2025 DATES: FULL LIST, HIGHLIGHTS & 2024 REVIEWThe recently announced Torture Garden 2025 dates list embraces no less than 24 club events for this year, comprising 16 dates in London, three in Edinburgh, one in Manchester and four outside the UK (full list below). And there may be a few further additions as the year progresses.The current list...

US FETISH EVENTS 2025: A DOZEN DATES FROM JANUARY TO MARCHOrganisers of 2025 US fetish events are no doubt only one of many interest groups wondering how Mark Zuckerberg’s recent announcement of Meta’s new policies on ‘free speech’ — which include scrapping US fact-checkers and diminishing LGBTQ+ and trans protections — might affect the fetish community.Meta’s plans to join X...

LIBIDEX BLOG 2024 PT2: HIGHLIGHTS FROM MONTHS JULY-DECEMBERWelcome to the second and final part of the look back at our Libidex Blog stories of 2024 — this time covering Blog stories published in the second half of the year.As with Part 1, Libidex Blog 2024 Pt2 will feature one story highlight from each month, along with a representative image from...

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...

UK Fetish Awards 2024: Libidex’s award for Best Fetish Fashion Company was accepted on behalf of the label by Rogerio (3rd left) and Maz (2nd left). (Photo: @kanthonyphoto)UK FETISH AWARDS: LIBIDEX WINS BEST FETISH FASHION COMPANY In case you hadn’t heard, Libidex won the Best Fetish Fashion Company award (again!) at this year’s UK Fetish Awards, which took place earlier...

 LIBERATION AT 20: LIBIDEX STORE CELEBRATES 2 SHOPTASTIC DECADES!Last month, Liberation, the Libidex boutique at 49 Shelton Street WC2H 9HE in London’s Covent Garden, celebrated its 20th anniversary. Today, it can still claim to be the only latex store in central London.Famous as a 'must visit' destination for London's latex tourists, it has been featured numerous times on TV shows...

TORTURE GARDEN WINDS UP 2024 WITH SIX FESTIVE EVENTS IN THE UKFollowing four Halloween parties which the club has described as “two exceptional weekends” that “felt like TG at its best”, Torture Garden has confirmed details of its remaining UK dates between November 15 and the end of 2024.It’s a schedule that starts with a two-nighter in Edinburgh, followed in...

FETISH & KINK SUMMIT – LONDON: AWARENESS + UNDERSTANDING DAY The Fetish & Kink Summit – London is a one-day seminar organised for Saturday November 23 at Queen Mary University’s Arts Two Building (pictured below) in London E1. Hosted by Seed Talks, it will present talks, workshops and Q&As from world-leading experts, aimed at creating ‘a safe space to foster...

LATEX IN LATER LIFE? YOU CAN WEAR IT AT ANY AGE, SAY UK MEDIABy a coincidence that people might not find entirely surprising, several bastions of the UK media decided to run articles about latex fashion in the run-up to Halloween. But thanks to the timely appearance of photos featuring the likes of Tess Daly (55), Hannah Waddingham (50) and...