Have you ever felt yourself getting hard or moist (as appropriate) at the sound of someone's voice? Or at the merest touch of their fingernail on the nape of the neck... you remember don't you? A little shudder, maybe a shiver... feeling warm and realising it's the heat from your own skin, flushed and pink... squirming as you realise what's happening to your body... your arousal visible to someone, anyone, who might be watching you. You tune in again to the voice and it's talking with incredible heat, a rising passion of its own... it's like listening to liquid sex... you sense the intent in that voice... you cannot escape it... it's drawing you in... you know that your vulnerabilities are about to be preyed upon... you have opened yourself up to this person and your deepest, darkest, dirtiest fantasies are about to be used, exposed, played with... and you want it... no... no.... ..... YES! YES! YES!

I've just come back home after a lovely weekend, finally starting to overcome my block about rope bondage with the help of a world-renowned expert. If you get the chance to go and see her demos or to learn in workshops with Midori, do it! This is unmissable, and she's only in the UK for a short visit. We attended the workshop day on aural sex and Japanese rope bondage in Birmingham and the demonstration at the BBB.

The first SubVerse Unassertiveness Workshop went down very well with our first ten participants. The workshop was presented by two SubVerse Writers, Voxx and elle. Unfortunately the workshop got off to a late start so SubVerse took the opportunity of selling its paraphernalia before the workshop began, the booklets were very popular, the first hand-painted SubVerse tea mug was sold and an order was received for a large male SubVerse vanilla lavender tea-shirt.

I am new to the scene and decided to visit the local (Scotland) Fetish/BDSM club, Violate. I spoke to people online before attending. When the 9th of February arrived, I travelled to Edinburgh where the club was meeting that month, and found my way into the function room by following the people in fetish clothing. Once inside the dark cellar, very appropriate, I found the bar, nice prices, and waited until I recognised or was recognised by people I had met on-line. When that happened I was able to relax and enjoy myself.

I've just found a new fetish site that might be of interest - www.fantasybodywear.com. My girlfriend has bought the aptly named fanny skirt which I do like, try it out you might find something...

Thankyou to various people who've nominated us for a New Statesman New Media award in the Online Communities category - I don't suppose we'll be seeing a fetish site win any mainstream media awards anytime soon, but it's a nice thought! If you want to nominate us too, click here (try to use the same organisation name and URL as other people ('UK Fetish Info' and 'http://ukfetish.info/') as this will mean all the votes go in one place).

IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat. It's a type of instant chat network that has been around for almost as long as the Internet - longer than the web, and a lot longer than ICQ, AIM, and all the other instant messenger things. This article aims to give you a quick guide to getting on IRC, and where to go once you're on there.

My partner and I attended a lovely fetish party in Paris recently - I thought I'd post a little review. The party was on Sunday 27th January - a special event was being held to celebrate someones birthday - coincidentally it coincided with my own birthday :)

Okay, so I'm exaggerating a little for effect... but basically, the guy who played Wesley Crusher in Star Trek TNG is doing a movie at the moment where he gets tied up by a pro domme at one stage... the details can be read in his own words in his weblog, and I'll include the relevant excerpt below...

A small group of us spent a quiet evening in (hiding from atrocious weather) and the talk turned to bondage. Having in my possession a copy of 'The Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage', we decided to have a go. All the people concerned had never attempted any Japanese Bondage before, so we were all rather nervous and all finger and thumbs.