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:: Thursday, December 18, 2008 ::

Ben Westwood - Crusading Pornographer

"Ben Westwood's campaign against the forthcoming Government bill to ban "extreme pornography" is stepping up a gear.

The photographer, son of fashion doyenne Dame Vivienne, has designed a series of collectable lunchboxes bearing the sort of pornographic images which will in effect become illegal when the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 becomes law in January 2009.

Delightfully, he's planning to release one such box depicting the Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, bound and gagged. Westwood had hoped to project the image on to the Houses of Parliament, but has been advised by the Palace of Westminster Police that he must seek prior consent from the crimson-coiffed Serjeant-at-Arms, Jill Pay.

He reckons Pay is likely to decline his request, but after her recent decision to let the Metropolitan Police rootle around the Commons at will, I say it's worth asking."



What would his mother say?
"Brought up by Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren, he spent his teenage years at the epicentre of the punk-rock explosion. After that, there were only two ways Ben Westwood could rebel: become a chartered accountant, or do something really shocking. Stuart Husband discusses fetishes, fantasy and family ties with a crusading pornographer"

Labels: Art, Fetish, Politics

:: Dan 18.12.08 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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See a better class of zombie in rubber wear!

The day of the Shoot

DeadDeadDead from DeadDeadDead on Vimeo.

From Dark Daze on flickr.

Labels: Fetish, Flickr, Goth, Photography, Zombie

:: Dan 2.11.08 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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I kindly offered to buy Mrs P burlesque dance lessons for her birthday but the offer was turned down on account of being more of a present for myself than for her. (I know it worked for Popcorn so it was worth a try.) Not long later I find an article in the Metro, of all places, about Japanese Rope Bondage. Something I've often marvelled at but didn't realise you could get lessons on it in the UK! The geek in my is as fascinated with the knotting as I am with its erotic nature.



"Due to demand, I now offer 2 hour evening classes on Tuesdays at 8pm. Hopefully, this will suit those who cannot make the Saturday courses. As I will be rotating the evening courses every six weeks or so, there will be an opportunity to catch up if you miss a class. The 'term' will comprise 4 lessons, which will equate to the one-day course. The next term starts on Tuesday, 21 October. There's an article in Metro by Lisa Scott, who attended one of the classes. Most courses have been selling out recently, so make sure you book early." esinem.com

However, I do still have other priorities as far as learnings of the mystic East are concerned and I am still trying to find a Kodo/Taiko drumming courses in the UK. So far the only class I have found is in Lanark, Scotland. Which is a bit far. Maybe one day.



Or maybe I should just go to Japan and do it all at once.

Labels: Fetish, Music

:: Dan 19.10.08 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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The love of tentacles
Found this when looking for joke tentacle images but I've got to admit it looks pretty good.



It's all Hijack's fault.

Labels: Fashion, Fetish, Food

:: Dan 17.10.08 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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No proper MP3 Friday this week, but here are some videos.



Great new video from Cyriak for My Territory by Grand Popo Football Club (Pschent Music) [the song isn't anything special btw]



BoingBoing TV: David Byrne interviewed by Xeni Jardin
Battery Maritime Building, 2008
[more]

Labels: Fetish, Humour, Music, Video

:: Dan 22.8.08 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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Interesting responses from the papers to the Max Mosley vs the News of the World case. For those who don't know, the News of the World [NotW], a UK gutter-press tabloid fond of kiss and tell stories, secretly filmed and published stories about F1 boss Mosley, accusing him of partaking in an orgy with six prostitutes that had Nazi overtones.

Mosley claimed for libel, on the grounds there weren't any Nazi overtones. He didn't deny any of the rest of it, that was his own private business. He won a record £60k damages.

The Guardian editorial this morning sums up the case:

Judges and journalists might disapprove of all sorts of unconventional sexual behaviour but - so long as it was between consenting adults in private - it is not the business of the state, the courts or the media to intrude. "It is not," said Eady, "for journalists to undermine human rights, or for judges to refuse to enforce them, merely on grounds of taste or moral disapproval."

In a great piece on Channel 4 news [skip 14min into this video] last night the NotW's legal expert was interviewed about how the paper felt the case had gone. They felt that the ruling had severe implications for freedom of speech and maintained that knowing what sexual acts a person in power gets up to in their own time, between consenting adults, is in the public interest, whilst glossing over the fact that they embellished the story to make it sell better. At the end of the interview John Snow challenges him to name a previous story that may no-longer be publishable because of this ruling, although he dodged the question it is a very good one.

Most of the press are quick to the defensive, The Telegraph reporting Judge has hampered freedom of expression, for example. Then, in classic right wing press tradition, they go on to blame the Human Rights Act in just the same was the NotW blamed Europe (see video).

Why has Human Rights become a dirty word? The press hate it. This irritates me every time I see an example of it, which is almost daily. They are convinced it has done nothing but harm to their right to print whatever they like and acting as self-appointed judge and jury themselves. Even the Guardian editorial, above, spins the case for using the Press Complaints Commission rather than the courts. True, this may be easier in many cases, but I can't see the PCC handing out landmark rulings and record compensation.

The Times, on the other hand, spins a conspiracy theory about missing evidence: Max Mosley orgies and missing emails.

The New York Times, bless them, completely misses the point by putting the wrong word in inverted commas in their headline: British Tabloid Loses Suit Over Nazi ‘Orgy’ Article.

The Irish Times has the sense to point out Mosley ruling does not appear to threaten public interest defence.

"The implication of yesterday's judgment by Mr Justice Eady," The Independent reminds us, "is that people who have sexual habits others might find bizarre or unpalatable have the same right to privacy as anyone else." And that's a very good thing.

Labels: Fetish, News, Politics, Privacy

:: Dan 25.7.08 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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Three Shades of Red
Originally uploaded by [Zakkaliciousness].

"If you can't ride a cargo bike in a short skirt and smashing red heels, you aren't in Copenhagen."

Awesome.

Labels: Bikes, Fetish, Flickr

:: Dan 12.5.08 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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I guess this is a meme in the original sense of the word. It shows how an idea has started in one place and been built on, developed and evolved by others. Traditionalists would call it a conversation.

From Octopus99

Dominic Zero says:
"I actually lost interest in Alias after Season 1 largely because for a hard-nosed uber-agent working undercover she seemed to spend an awful lot of the time crying and getting upset. Either that or she was in jeans and a tee shirt the whole time once her contract had been renewed and I no was longer fished in. Everyone knows female undercover agents have to dress up as either prostitutes or pole dancers or goths at least half the time. Just ask Heather Locklear."

El Duderino says:
"Actually if I ran an undercover espionage agency I would only hire hot chicks and dress them in rubber and lingerie. I mean it makes fucking sense, innit? Then I'd pray to god all the targets hung out at fetish parties. They'd really stand out in Safeway."

I say:
"Everyone knows they do. It comes with the territory. To end up in that line of work you have to take pleasure in role-play, dressing up in uniforms (sometimes cross-dressing), and knowing there is a serious threat of torture around every corner. How could you end up in that career if you weren't a fetishist? It just make sense."

Labels: blogs, Fetish, Literature, meme, Sci-Fi

:: Dan 14.4.08 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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night rider
Originally uploaded by LostSouls.


Great shot from Lost Souls for the bikes and heels (shouldn't really work, but it does) collection. And should you ever want for more, there is always Zakkaliciousness' Cycle Chic - Copenhagen Girls on Bikes set. Purvey fascination that puts me to shame.

Labels: Bikes, Fetish, Flickr

:: Dan 29.12.07 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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I found an article that amused me in the Metro a couple of weeks ago about the sexual antics of various sea creatures. Annoyingly it’s not on the Metro website, but by googling a phase in it I found another blogger who had typed the whole thing up.
Kinky secrets of the deep
Example:
GIANT SQUID
These giants of the deep have come up with a handy solution to breeding. They live in the darkest depths of the world’s oceans and on the rare occasions that males and females do meet up they have to make the most of the opportunity.
The male which grows up to 14m has a metre long muscular penis which he uses to stab the female’s tentacles. His sperm is deposited into the resulting wound where it remains until the female is ready to make use of them.
Amazing.

However, use caution if you stray elsewhere on Paddleuser2's blog. There are some interesting posts about fetishisms and the law, but it's not stuff you want to be found reading in work.

Returning to the subject of the mainstream media's "ooh, aren't some people funny" attitude to reporting of sex stories - despite the fact it will find any excuse to shoehorn such a story in - I found this whilst searching for the former article:
Splosh!
The studio referred to is here.

Labels: Fetish, Humour

:: Dan 2.12.07 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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Looking over someone's shoulder on the bus last week I spotted this picture in the Metro, so obviously decided to grab a copy and find out what it was doing in there.



Who would wear shoes like that and not have the sense to put on black nail varnish? Fucking amateurs.

The text from almost full page article is here: The height of fashion turns 500. It would seem that the near full page article is justified merely by a press release from Shoe Express claiming that high heels are around about 500 years old, give or take, so have produced these beauties above to celebrate. Sounds pretty tenuous to me, and I very much doubt I'll see anyone walking around in those, but it's a nice picture none the less. So here's some more free publicity for them.

Labels: Fashion, Fetish

:: Dan 5.9.07 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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125 magazine - Japan issue
Originally uploaded by gusset.


125 magazine issue 9, Japan special, international cover, reprint.
Cover image by Felix Larher.

If you browse the online shop it's best to search by Photographer rather than Keyword btw, as the images don't seem to be tagged very well. Love the way you can order prints of pretty much every image.

"...the only magazine in the world, which acts as a completely unbiased photography gallery, open to both emerging and established artists, and making affordable art available to all."

"JAPAN ISSUE RE-PRINT
Our Japan issue went on-sale worldwide on March 1st and sold out in record time, as a biannual we make every effort to maintain at least a 5 month presence in stores, so we have decided to capitalize on the popularity of this issue by re-printing and re-distributing in the UK later this month across all key and major outlets. The re-print will feature the international cover version which was previously only available outside the UK so this is your chance to get both versions of our best issue to date."

"SOLD OUT ONLINE - NOW AVAILABLE ONLY IN SHOPS"

Found this in Boarders (£6.99) in the week. Stunning material. All fans on Japan, Fruits, fetish, fashion and just plane good photography should get this.

Labels: Art, Fashion, Fetish, Photography

:: Dan 9.6.07 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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Some beautiful erotic photography by Nick Sushkevich. altlink
[via aco]

Labels: Art, Erotic, Fetish, Photography

:: Dan 8.5.07 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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I've mentioned before my fascination with the strange juxtaposition of seeing someone riding a bike in high heels. You have to applaud the dedication to the cause of heel wearing when they are used in such inappropriate circumstances. Here's another example found by Mrs P in a magazine, along with a public health warning about the possible side effects of cycling.

[Sorry about the white space. I added that so flickr would centralise the thumbnail on the photo without cropping the text.]



And it applies to men just as much as women. Summary of the 2003 Bicycle Saddle Report



So don't forget your anatomical saddle.

Example, Mens:


Example, Womens:


The jury is still out on this one:

[found via google image search here NSFW]

Labels: Bike, Cycling, Fashion, Fetish, Photography

:: Dan 7.4.07 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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Stilettos ‘sent fetish thief over the edge’
"A shoe fetishist who moved to London found the fashionable footwear there so exciting that he robbed a series of women of their shoes to satisfy his sexual obsession, a court was told."

"He said, although he was sexually attracted to women and had had a sexual relationship with a girlfriend as recently as November 2005, his past relationships with women had been somewhat complicated by the fact that he would find a particular girlfriend’s shoes more sexually attractive than the girl herself."

Um, this definitely wasn't me either, btw.

He should have read The Boner Theory of Economics

Labels: Fashion, Fetish, News

:: Dan 4.4.07 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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