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UPCOMING Club & Fetish News Briefs
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BOUND: Friday, March 30th at a Secret New Venue!
     "We are pleased to announce that we have secured a location for Bound in March. We would like to invite the members of Iniquity to join us on Friday, March 30th for our Deviant Dance. Those of you who dare are invited to join our guest painters to get dressed up in Deviant Liquid Latex, and then dance (or play) the night away, glowing under the black lights. House DJs Tristan and Mitch will be joined by Melting Girl (Death Guild) and Danfuzz (Slick) spinning the best in Gothic, Industrial, Synth-Pop, and Electronic tunes in the main room and separate upstairs dungeon area.
      Bound is a private party. Non-members will be admitted only if accompanied by a member or by special invitation, and cover will be $15. Our Gothic/Fetish dress code is enforced at all Bound events - please see http://www.sfgoth.com/clubs/bound/ for details.
     To RSVP, please email bound@sfgoth.com with your full name, where you heard about us, and the number of people in your party. We will get back to you with all the details.

Los Angeles Fetish Ball: Saturday, June 30th
     If you have never visited the L.A. Fetish Ball, it is well worth your while if you are anywhere near the area. Previously held at the Variety Arts Center in downtown L.A., the event has moved location this year to The Hollywood Athletic Club, at 6525 Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood.
Tickets go on sale starting May 22nd.
     The L.A. Fetish Ball is always a good time. Some years the ambient Fetish Attire is just simply amazing, other years it's almost universally glossy monochromatic black, but every year brings a sincere contingent of at least 75-99% pure Fetish Fashion. Stage shows are often superb, and it really is the singular melting pot and "Who's Who" of the greater Los Angeles Area Fetish Scene. Some years have seen some amazing guest DJ's as well, such as Torture Garden's DJ Alan from England.
     Although this year's event is back to the traditional formula of a one-night gig (as opposed to last year's 3-day event), keep your eyes and ears open for other Fetish promoters who may be throwing lead-in or after-party events and the like (Very likely from what this author has heard). :-)
     More info: http://www.fetishball.com/

Mr. S Starts Newsletter
     The infamous Mr. S, one of San Francisco's BEST places for hardcore S&M supplies and Men's Fetish Clothing, has now started it's own newsletter. The newsletter includes a variety of information about the shop, new products, sales, and more. Although Mr. S has always catered mainly to the gay community, they have made it clear in the last few years that they are bringing things around to cater to the pansexual (read: all variations) community more and more. Example: their collection of S&M videos available for purchase in the shop, previously entirely gay, now includes both hetero and les S&M videos. Word has it that they are also making many of their restraints in "petite" sizes to fit the smaller wrists, etc, of women.
     To subscribe to the Mr. S Newsletter, write to: hunter@mr-s-leather-fetters.com

Cool New Fetish Directory
     The people at "WHAT IS YOURS?" have taken it upon themselves to construct another massive Fetish Database of information, good, services, events, etc. The site is clean and easy to navigate, and their interest is to give free representation to any sincere Fetish Community elements anywhere. Although their "Encyclopedia of Fetishes" has a long way to go (i.e. needs contributions), their "Directories" are already becoming well-stocked and make for some interesting browsing.
     Check it out at: http://www.whatsyours.com

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An S&M B&B in England: Fetters B&B
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(thanks to IQ reader Maria)

Fetters B&B, Warwick. "Welcome To The Pleasure Zone"

     After a clandestine meeting with Jan in the Hilton car park we were led through the small country lanes of Warwick. A brief stop for some tempting nasty looking nettles we saw en route, up a tiny private lane in the middle of nowhere to a detached ‘Barratt style’ home with perfectly manicured gardens. I’m not quite sure what I was expecting when I booked this exclusive bed and breakfast, a “Perverts Paradise Playground” with full use of the Fetters range of dungeon equipment, but it was not a white picket fence.
     We parked in front of the double garage, unloaded our own bags full of implements and struggled up the pathway trying to avoid crushing any of the bedding plants. We got a smile as we laboured past the old lady in the granny annex which made us wonder if she really knew what the guests intentions were at this ideal home, and if she did, was that the real reason behind her smile ?
     Jan, our friendly hostess, unlocked a door leading to an extension hallway lined with classic John Dietrich framed portraits giving us a brief tour. The bedroom was well equipped with TV and VCR and a fridge stocked with drinks including a complimentary bottle of wine, plus a kettle for all caffeine addicts. Fetters catalogues lay on the bedside cabinet suggesting the white duvet set was just a front for something a little more deviant than a cotton fetish. At the end of the hallway was a mirror backed door, which when opened revealed an iron gate. The familiar much loved scent of rubber wafted up the hallway and reassured us that this was not a show home from the current Homes and Gardens magazine after all.
     Our eyes could not open wide enough to take in this hedonistic haven of fetish delights; surely I had died and gone to Pervert's heaven. The bobbled black rubber flooring beckoned, every wall contained rack loads of equipment and mirrors. Starting with the wall of whips with a full range of ‘cats’ from tiny genital whips, to horse hair to heavy duty rubber. An Iron Maiden stood in the corner behind the suspension hoists on the ceiling which also had a full body leather suspension bag hanging from a hook. A smoked glass mirror filled the entire end wall, so every angle of the room could be captured in reflection. A metal cabinet was filled with all manner of deviant appliances including weights, restraints, gags, harnesses, strap-ons, dildoes, butt plugs and a bucket load of condoms.
     Jan explained that if we used anything to leave the dirty items in a pile on the floor for her to clean in the morning. I asked if she could fetch us a bucket and mop as I convinced her that ‘slave’ was to clean up his own dirty mess. The windows were sheathed in rubber curtains and on the window sill were various sizes of cock rings and weights. Hanging from the hooks above were every type of mask from metal full facial to leather and rubber strapped. In front of the window was an open legged queen chair with a head cage fixed firmly on the floor between the legs. A sturdy whipping bench with leather straps stood in front of the chair. The wall next to the window held a beautiful collection of crops and floggers, and a selection of nipple clamps. Behind another window clad in rubber curtains, a quick peek revealed an even more perfectly manicured landscaped back garden. There was a hi-fi on a shelf on the next wall to create the perfect ambience for your intended torture victim. In front of the hi-fi was the black leather medical examination table complete with stirrups and a ceiling hoist above with angled mirror so that the nervous patient can see every excruciating operation.
     But le ‘piece de resistance’ as the Master de Sade would have put it, was the padded rotating wheel with full body strap restraints. There were two dimmer switches controlling clear and red coloured spotlights. The intoxicating rubber aroma was overwhelming and the urge to rush into the bedroom and get kited up was briefly delayed by the return of Jan with the mop and bucket. Her final word was to request that we keep the noise down when it gets late. Our several case loads of equipment were quickly discarded in favour of all the new toys available to play with although we spent 14 continuous hours working our way through the stock.
     We emerged tired and aching next morning to a fantastic cooked breakfast in Jan’s living room, being cautiously eyed by all the pet cats. Jan asked if we enjoyed ourselves as she heard laughter at 4am and not the moans of ecstasy and/or pain as usually expected. We feel it will be necessary to come back again for another visit to fully appreciate the full range of facilities.

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Early Info on the next RUBBER BALL
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From SKIN TWO:
"The Rubber Ball 2001 will be on Monday October 8th at the Hammersmith
Palais in London. As usual there will be a whole weekend of events
with the ball as the finale. If you contact SKIN TWO on
rubberball@skintwo.com they'll put you on the mailing list and keep
you up to date with all the latest news."

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Historical Oddity: The "Orgasm" Treatment
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(thanks to IQ reader Vekquin)

In the History of Gynecology, a Surprising Chapter
By NATALIE ANGIER

     Electricity has given so much comfort to womankind, such surcease to her life of drudgery. It gave her the vacuum cleaner, the pop-up toaster and the automatic ice dispenser.
     And perhaps above all, it gave her the vibrator. In the annals of Victorian medicine, a time of "Goetze's device for producing dimples" and
"Merrell's strengthening cordial, liver invigorator and purifier of the blood," the debut of the electromechanical vibrator in the early 1880s was
one medical event that truly worked wonders -- safely, reliably, repeatedly.
     As historian Rachel Maines describes in her exhaustively researched if decidedly offbeat work, "The Technology of Orgasm: 'Hysteria,' the
Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction" (Johns Hopkins Press, 1999), the vibrator was developed to perfect and automate a function that doctors had long performed for their female patients: the relief of physical, emotional and sexual tension through external pelvic massage, culminating in orgasm.
     For doctors, the routine had usually been tedious, with about as much erotic content as a Kenneth Starr document. "Most of them did it because they felt it was their duty," Dr. Maines said in an interview. "It wasn't sexual at all." The vibrator, she argues, made that job easy, quick and clean. With a vibrator in the office, a doctor could complete in seconds or minutes what had taken up to an hour through manual means. With a vibrator, a female patient suffering from any number of symptoms labeled "hysterical" or "neurasthenic" could be given relief -- or at least be pleased enough to guarantee her habitual patronage.
     "I'm sure the women felt much better afterwards, slept better, smiled more," said Dr. Maines. Besides, she added, hysteria, as it was
traditionally defined, was an incurable, chronic disease. "The patient had to go to the doctor regularly," Dr. Maines said. "She didn't die. She was a cash cow."
     Nowadays, it is hard to fathom doctors giving their patients what Dr. Maines calls regular "vulvular" massage, either manually or
electromechanically. But the 1899 edition of the Merck Manual, a reference guide for physicians, lists massage as a treatment for hysteria (as well as sulfuric acid for nymphomania). And in a 1903 commentary on treatments for hysterical patients, Dr. Samuel Howard Monell wrote that "pelvic massage (in gynecology) has its brilliant advocates and they reportwonderful results." But he noted that many doctors had difficulty treating patients "withtheir own fingers," and hailed the vibrator as a godsend: "Special applicators (motor driven) give practical value and office convenience to what otherwise is impractical."
     Small wonder that by the turn of the 20th century, about 20 years after Dr. Joseph Mortimer Granville patented the first electromechanical
vibrator, there were at least two dozen models available to the medical profession. There were musical vibrators, counterweighted vibrators,
vibratory forks, undulating wire coils called vibratiles, vibrators that hung from the ceiling, vibrators attached to tables, floor models on
rollers and portable devices that fit in the palm of the hand. They were powered by electric current, battery, foot pedal, water turbine, gas engine or air pressure, and they shimmied at speeds ranging from 1,000 to 7,000 pulses per minute. They were priced to move, ranging from a low of $15 to what Dr. Maines calls the "Cadillac of vibrators," the Chattanooga, which cost $200 plus freight charges in 1904 and which, in its aggressive multi-cantilevered design, is more evocative of the Tower of London than the Pink Pussycat boutique.
     A text from 1883 called "Health For Women" recommended the new vibrators for treating "pelvic hyperemia," or congestion of the genitalia.
Vibrators were also marketed directly to women, as home appliances. In fact, the vibrator was only the fifth household device to be electrified,
after the sewing machine, fan, tea kettle and toaster, and preceding by about a decade the vacuum cleaner and electric iron -- perhaps, Dr.
Maines suggests, "reflecting consumer priorities." Advertised in such respectable periodicals as Needlecraft, Woman's Home Companion, Modern Priscilla and the Sears-Roebuck catalog, vibrators were pitched as "aids that every woman appreciates," with the delicious promise that "all the pleasures of youth ... will throb within you."
     Significantly, the vibrators and their accoutrements almost never took the form of the dildo, for the simple reason that vibrators were meant to
be used externally. As a result, medically indicated massage therapy could be pitched as upstanding and asexual -- and less risqué than the
gynecologist's speculum, which came under heavy ethical fire when it was first introduced in the late 19th century.
     The vibrator was not the first therapeutic approach to treating feminine "pelvic hyperemia." Dr. Maines and other historians have
described the practice of hydrotherapy, the taking to the baths or spas, as an ancient means to a sometimes climactic end. A century ago, spas like Saratoga Springs were a favorite destination of the well-to-do, who enjoyed the diversity of aqua-regimens: the warm baths, the bracing baths, the mineral baths, the gas-infused bubbly baths, the swirling proto-Jacuzzi baths, and, especially, the "douche" baths, in which a
current of water was directed through a high-pressure hose or nozzle against the surface of the body -- or into a cavity of the body, if the
bather so desired.
     The vibrator remained a staple of the doctor's armamentarium and the proper wife's boudoir until the 1920s, Dr. Maines said, when it began
showing up in stag films and quickly lost its patina of gentility. Vibrators are still widely available, of course -- unless you happen
to live in Alabama, Georgia and Texas, where state legislatures have banned the sale of vibrators and other "sex toys." The American Civil
Liberties Union is now vigorously challenging the Alabama statute. If Alabama permits the prescribing of the anti-impotence drug Viagra, the
ACLU argues, how dare it tell women that they can't have their own electromechanical prescription for joy?

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Wrap-Up & Stuff For New Readers
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Hope you all enjoyed the unusual and informative articles this issue. It is a strange world out there, aye?

Fetish dreams to you all,

-- Arcane

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