Torture Garden - 25 May 2001Review: Event

Well, it was certainly great fun. 1,200 or so pervs all dressed to the nines and out for a fun time. It all started at 10pm, going on, for those with the energy, to 6am, as the light came up over Brixton, where the venue, MASS, a huge old converted Church resides. However, in my enthusiasm to introduce a couple of pervy friends to the scene, we arrived early, hoping to avoid the usual queue, yet it only really started to fill out by midnight.

The people wore some incredible costumes in myriad materials and imaginative designs covering just about every fetish or kink you are ever likely to encounter. It's high time I got something other than black leather trousers and rubber vest in my collection.

It's hard to pick favourites as people so clearly put a lot of time and effort into their look, but I think the guy wearing the huge white King Charles wig and matching period attire in rubber, has to win. Closely followed by two blondes who somehow managed to walk around in the most incredibly high platforms without falling over once all evening.

As usual, unlike so many non-fetish clubs, the age range was there, with pervs from their teens to their 50s and 60s proving that you don't need to be young to know how to have a good time. However, the majority of people were probably in their 20s and 30s.

Music was loud, loud... oh and loud, thumping out a throbbing hardcore beat asthe dancefloor filled with writhing sweaty bodies by midnight and stayed that way all the way through till at least four am when we bowed out.

Meanwhile, downstairs in the dungeon a variety of people played around with their partners, or people that happened to be willing participants. A lot of spanking and lashings were being meted out on all-too-willing subs of both genders (and some of indeterminate origin). There was also a good line in rope bondage going on to a girl covered in blue body paint and pierced in all the places you might imagine...

Then there was a very pretty little bob-haired blonde (possibly a wig?) wearing a tartan mini-kilt and belting backsides that came into range... what a pity that she was so obviously Dom.

For relaxation there was always the two chill rooms back upstairs, where revellers can try to get away from the all-encompassing throb of the music. However, as these filled up they became saunas, making the only reason to remain the opportunity to voyeuristically soak up the vision of writhing bodies in dark corners doing stuff that would shock the parents! Or do some bad stuff yourself.

Lastly there was the alternative music in the other club-room - a mixture of different genres, from disco to diva and a photographer on hand to take your picture in your cossie, should you wish.

If there were stage shows in the room, sadly we missed them. There was so much else going on in other parts of this superb venue.

My only gripes... well I still feel that paying £3 for a small bottle of water is outrageous... (Note the 'Scot' in the title) Then again, if people are willing to pay... And what's with the nazi uniforms?

FetishScot

 
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nazi uniforms#2

I guess that they are part of a freedom of expression. Are you suggesting we oppress people for that?

Why cant people try to understand that by choosing to see any symbol as offensive we are giving these symbols more power than they are worthy of. You have a choice as to how you react when you see any symbol. The more outraged you decide to be then the more power the cause has over you.

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Nazi uniforms#3

Would have been nice if someone had oppressed the people that wore them the first time around.

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Nazi Uniforms#4

You may not like hearing it, but Nazi uniforms and such do indeed cater to a certain fetish. Of course, you'll not see so much of it on the internet or in popular (read: advertiser-oriented) culture publications, but it exists, and it's roots aren't necessarily in anti-semitism.

Think about the term 'power exchange.' What is the most important word of that phrase? POWER. The Nazi regime represents a very powerful, intimidating, and somewhat frightening organization. Let's face it - the uniforms alarmed YOU enough to make mention, didn't they? They are the absolute 'bad-boy' of our generation, and they represent SO many forms of iron-clad power and almost other-worldly danger. Take all the associated fanaticisms regarding science and technology, history, the occult, psychology, and couple it with a divide-and-conquor mindset followed by an almost religious overtone, and you have what might as well be a fictional something right out of a horror film. It's larger than life. The uniforms and symbols associated take that one step further. The uniforms themselves were designed to strike a feeling of power and superiority in the first place, and it still carries through.

I suppose that, had the era been a couple thousand years earlier, we would be dressing and playing as Roman militaria, however nowadays that doesn't seem to strike home as much - we're no longer afraid of the Roman Empire.

Cheers.

VC

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Re: Nazi Uniforms#5

these uniforms represent a strong show that whites will generate any means to stay as the dominating power of the world and soon i feel these uniforms will come back not as the dictator of crime but the conqueror of mossliums who want to take whites off this earth they will were a symbol aam which will stand for americans against mossliums

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Re: Re: Nazi Uniforms#6

as long as people are too illiterate to even spell correctly then we're all in fear of the illiterate redneck. The literate ones will oppress everyone, the illiterate ones wave the flag and bend over.

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Re: Re: Nazi Uniforms#8

what the hell?! is this the stupid will inherit the earth?
btw, i love that uniform, i have one, i wear it in the right situations, and isnt politcal!
and i'm not illiterate (but knowing me i will have spelt that incorectly)

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Re: Nazi Uniforms#7

I agree with VC (the anonymous poster has the same initials as me, but is a different person), and would like to add:

Text requoted from http://www.dpjs.co.uk/enema.html

'The SS officer, with his monocle and black leather riding boots, has been transformed into a decadent figure familiar to all popular fetish clubs - partly due to the unhealthy idea that, as the twentieth centuries most infamous oppressors, Nazis make good models for the recreational sadist. Susan Sontag made a detailed study of this sinister idea in Under the Sign of Saturn, in which she writes: 'Between sadomasochism and fascism there is a natural link. Fascism is theatre... as is sadomasochistic sexuality.... expert costumers and choreographers as well as performers, in a drama that is all the more exciting because it is forbidden to ordinary people.'
The Nazis as an icon of erotic fascination have much to do with their sense of visual drama. As conservative American humorist P. K. O'Rourke puts it, 'I've often been called a Nazi and, although it is unfair, I don't let it bother me for one simple reason. No one has ever had a fantasy about being tied to a bed and sexually ravished by someone dressed as a liberal''

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Vexen Crabtree
http://www.vexen.co.uk

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