The Leeds Erotic Emporium is set to open its doors on Sunday 27th January 2002, and thereafter the 4th Sunday of every month - www.eroticemporium.co.uk

I finished adding a new feature to the site today, I hope you like it! All logged in users can now add entries to their own weblog, which can be read by anyone visiting the site. A weblog is a kind of online journal, you can put whatever you want in it - perhaps thoughts about the fetish lifestyle that don't seem to fit in as comments on any of the articles but which you'd like to share anyway...

My partner and I have only recently discovered (almost by accident, but that's another story!), that adopting a mistress/slave relationship is the best thing we have ever done. It has rapidly developed from being something that we talked about playing with occasionally, to a 24/7 way of life - even if a lot of the time it has to be subtle and played purely on a psychological level. We are greedily devouring any information we can find about fetishwear, equipment, terminology, etc., as we would really like to venture onto the scene.

DomDominion.com announces 'You Do Voodoo' Fetish Ball to be held January 13th 2002 in San Francisco to celebrate launch of fetish-based Website and dominatrix calendar.

The 5th Bristol Fetish Emporium & Party... Sunday 13th Jan 2002 and 2nd Sunday in every month there after. The market runs from 11am to 5pm. January is famous for SAVING MONEY therefore we have negotiated with most traders that they offer a discount on their already low prices (some items will not be discounted).

I'm away for the next couple of days, so I'll post this now - hope everyone has a great Xmas! Don't forget to post reviews of any events you go to and any good presents you get!!

Despite some adverse publicity at the 11th hour, the pervy public flocked to BFE's Xmas event. There were the usual traders including me plus some new ones. The BFE controlled the film crew which had caused all the pre-event consternation, as they always said they would!! with the result the atmosphere was light hearted and very seasonal.

I'm a bit new to all this, so I'd appreciate any pointers about clubs, and places to buy fetish gear etc, in the Liverpool/Manchester area. Here's hoping!

The area of sexual representation has long been a battleground for feminists. In this piece I will be looking at the traditional feminist objections to pornography and some of the arguments against them, to which end I have elected to base my discussion quite loosely around Kathy Myers' piece entitled "Towards a Feminist Erotica", because I believe this to be a useful piece in that it not only sets out the different perspectives but also offers some realistic strategies for change.

Body hair - who needs it ? Well I suppose it does have some potential for fun, I once knew a man who shaved his pubic hair star-shaped and dyed it electric blue. Personally though I prefer to be hairless, and this is something I share with many others in the fetish/BDSM community. There is a great deal of attraction in the look and feel of a thoroughly depilated body, and over the years I have researched and experimented with many different methods of pubic hair removal. I thought I'd share some of this knowledge.