MARQUIS AMERICA recommends Fetish factory 14.th anniversary party in Miami-Ft. Lauderdale, USA – Memorial Day Weekend – May 22-23-24, 2009

Fetish Factory is notorious for the 3-night / 4-party Fetish Weekend concept and has continually hosted the largest event in North America for four years running which began with the 10-Year Anniversary in 2005 – this will be FF’s 5th year in a row hosting this 3-day gala!

The event draws partiers worldwide from over 25 different countries and countless cities around the USA. Fetish Factory boasts the top names in the game including performers, models, photographers, media and fetish-world icons.

Discount tickets are now on sale online and will be on sale at the Fetish Factory retail store in early February. Buying your tickets in advance will offer you a significant discount when compared to the door price so save some money and get yours in advance.

3 Crazy Nights – 4 Amazing Parties
Are you a fetish tri-athlete? Do you have what it takes to go the distance? Escape the mundane real world and immerse yourself in an unbelievable surreal fetish fantasy for an extended weekend!

Memorial Day Weekend will be a marathon of fetish fun with three different themed nights at three venues. FF hosts three full-scale, high-production events on back-to-back nights – plus one kink-under-the-sun fetish pool party on Sunday for a total of 4 events in one long weekend!

Things will kick off with FF’s Beat & Greet Fetish Party on Friday, May 22 where you will get to meet the players and fetish celebs of the weekend who you will be partying with. This is not some hub-bub meet & greet. This is a full-blown fetish party and a big kickoff to the fetish weekend!

The main event, the Anniversary Fetish Ball will be hosted on Saturday, May 23rd and features the biggest performances and crowd of the year including the finest fetish entertainment and state-of-the-art sound, lighting, DJs & VJs.

Saturday’s event is a tour-de-force of fetish partying featuring a huge multi-level space transformed into the most elaborately decorated fetish nightclub. This event draws a fun and playful crowd that fills the place to the rafters. The main event has been known to draw 2,000+ fetish-frenzied partiers in a single night.

The wildest party of the weekend will be the last! The Extreme Fetish Play Party will be hosted on Sunday, May 24th and is a taste of the extreme fetish parties usually hosted by Fetish Factory’s XFP website. This a more hardcore event and is not for everyone, but for some players, this is a party that they cannot afford to miss!

Fetish Factory will be announcing their official venues for these three parties soon, but all of the locations are central and convenient to Broward Country.

FF will be announcing our list of performers in the coming weeks and months. They already have confirmed Alter Ego & Fetish Factory’s own Rebecca of Rebecca’s Rubber Room, and extreme fetish performer Samar who performed an incredible suspension show alongside Allen Falkner at the 12-Year Extreme Fetish Players Party. Check out the gallery from that show here.

Stay where the party is!
FF has innovated the Fetish Weekend concept by doing something that no one else in the world does: establish a host hotel to keep all the partiers in a central location. This assures that the party goes on all weekend long even when the nightclub closes its doors for the night. The hotel will be party central 24/7 for 3 consecutive days!

The host hotel is officially the Sheraton Ft Lauderdale, a 4-star hotel! This hotel as a nice, posh establishment that will be an excellent base of operations for the party weekend. The hotel features a much more spacious pool area than hotels in previous years conveniently located on the ground level.

100% Hotel Takeover!
FF is doing something new this year – they have made a guarantee to the hotel to take over every room top to bottom, so the hotel will be absolutely 100% fetish crowd! This will give the party people a lot more leniency and allow FF to do a lot of interesting things at the hotel that they have not been able to do in previous years. If you want to live in a kinky 24-hour fetish fantasyland for the entire weekend, you definitely don’t want to miss a minute of this!

If you are traveling from out of town, don’t even think about staying anywhere other than the host hotel. Fetish Factory secures a special deep-discounted rate well under retail. The social scene that goes on all weekend at the hotel is so great that even many core-crowd locals book a room for the weekend. It’s a spectacle to witness a hotel completely taken over by fetishists for an entire extended weekend.

This fabulous hotel is right around the corner from the Ft. Lauderdale Airport, immediately accessible from I-95, and is located a short distance from all of the announced party venues, the Atlantic Ocean beaches, and the Fetish Factory retail store. For more information about the host hotel, please visit the accommodations page on the 14-Year Anniversary website.

The published group rate for FF guests is only $99/night (the retail rate for this hotel is $200+ per night!). These are fantastic, spacious comfortable rooms, and our rate will be applied per-room and not per-guest! You may legally have up to 4 guests in one room to cut cost.

Book your room early to assure our special discount rate. As the hotel begins to fill up, the rules may change, rates may go up, and 2-3 night minimums may apply, so if you want a single night or just want to take advantage of this incredible deal, we encourage you to book now.

Free Round-Trip Airport pickup
The Sheraton sweetens the deal even more by including free round-trip transport to and from the airport to the hotel in the cost of your room. This is a $60 savings over taking a cab like in previous years! With this and our shuttle bus transportation to and from the events, hotel and FF store, there is absolutely no reason to waste money on a rental car or cab rides all over town.

The hotel has a friendly same-day cancellation policy: as long as you call before noon on the day of check-in you may cancel your reservation without penalty. If you are considering going this year, there is no reason to delay. Book your room now.

Fetish Pool Party – Hotel Guests Only
Fetish Factory also hosts a hotel guests-only pervy pool party on Saturday during the weekend of the event. This is a 100% fetish-friendly event and no vanilla outsiders will be allowed poolside! As if you needed another reason to book a room, this is an outrageous event that you can’t afford to miss!

Book Your Flight
If you are coming in from out of town, Fetish Factory recommends that you make your flight and hotel reservations as soon as possible to assure availability. Flights go fast and late bookings become costly.

Let FF do the driving!
Fetish Factory has also innovated simplicity for its guests providing comfortable, air conditioned tour bus transportation to and from all events. Now you don’t have to bother with the hassle of renting a car and getting lost in an unfamiliar place. Just take a cab from the airport to the hotel and FF takes care of the rest! Also, enjoy free stretch limo service to & from the hotel to the Fetish Factory store over the weekend.

Visit Florida and party!
If that isn’t enough, Fetish Factory’s event is different because it takes place among a tropical paradise. Florida has a wonderfully warm year-round climate, beautiful beaches that go on forever, and variety of activities and attractions for every lifestyle that you can’t find anywhere else. There are countless reasons why Florida is the #1 vacation destination. There is nowhere else in the world where you can experience fetish clubbing under the stars year round. Come for the party, stay for as long as you can! Make the event a part of your travel plans to visit the Sunshine State.

Table Reservations & Bottle Service
All three event nights will be offering VIP table reservations with required bottle service. If you are interested in the highest possible level of service while at the club, and if you could enjoy the real estate of having a roped-off table reserved for your friends as a base of operations, this is for you. Email Glenn or call 954-563-5777 (dial zero and ask for Glenn) to discuss a reservation. We will be posting bottle service menus on the 14-Year Anniversary website as the venues are announced.

The best source for all the most current and accurate information is the official website for the 14-Year Anniversary Fetish Ball. This site will be constantly updated with breaking information right up to the event. You can also call the Fetish Factory store at 954-563-5777 or send email directly to the owner Glenn at glenn@fetishfactory.com with any questions or concerns.

Kinky Educational Workshops
FF will host the popular kinky educational workshops put on by LAC. These informative courses are great for beginners or seasoned veterans of the BDSM and fetish scenes. More information coming soon.

Fetish Shopping
Fetish Factory has a large selection of crazy, sexy fetish fashions with new items coming in all the time leading up to the Anniversary Weekend. Come in today and check out FF’s new styles or shop online.

Want More?
Fetish Factory has created a dedicated website that is a great resource for all the latest information on the 14-Year Anniversary. In case you are wondering what it’s all about, the website also features free videoclips and slideshows from past fetish weekends.

http://www.FetishFactory.com/Anniversary

Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School is a lovely free-wheeling life drawing workshop founded by Molly Crabapple of NYC. There are Dr. Sketchy’s in most major cities in the US now, and in other countries as well. If there isn’t one near you, you could start one! www.drsketchy.com for info on how.

It’s traditonal at Dr. Sketchy’s for the model to be “alternative”- burlesque, fetish, pierced, transgendered, you name it- and for the crowd to be drunk and naughty. Folks of any drawing skill level are welcome, and contests with fun prizes like porn and sex toys are part of every event.

Our San Francisco Dr. Sketchy’s is now being run by artist Jessica Whiteside, aka burlesque queen Tinky Sparkle, and this month’s session featured well-known SF burlesque performer and fetish scene queen Citty Rich. Above is my drawing of her!

MARQUIS AMERICA recommends Mistress Drakonis!

Mistress Dominae Drakonis is a Dark Goddess rarely found.  A Vampire and Professional Domina,  she has been Dominating those worthy of her control for over half of her life.  No only can she inspire fear in her submissives, but true awe and devotion.  Though not always frightening in appearance, she is always in control – whether it is through her nurturing qualities or her commanding presence. Her realm of expertise spans all aspects of BdSm and D/s. Mistress Dominae Drakonis has been recently featured on the WE network’s The Secret Lives of Women (episode “dirty little suburban secrets”) as well as The History Channel’s Monsterquest.  She also lectures, demonstrates and performs various aspects of Dark Supernatural Play and is featured in several books and magazines.  Her new video “The Secrets of Domination” will be released this year (2009.)

Mistress Dominae will be presenting at Paddles, NYC on February 20th, 2009 and will be performing on Long Island and New York City throughout the year.

Mistress Dominae Drakonis has gathered quite a following – not only because of her often frightening appearance, but because of the compassionate and nurturing nature that lies underneath it. You will be surprised how much there is to this Goddess and be grateful should you ever earn the reward of meeting her.

You may learn more about Mistress Dominae Drakonis at: http://www.freewebs.com/mistressdominae  and at: http://www.myspace.com/dominaedraconis

 

 

You may contact Mistress Dominae Drakonis at msdominae@yahoo.com

 

The following is not designed to be any kind of critique on anyone’s use of certain English words. It’s more of an opportunity for Your Humble Narrator to impart some teachings … I do not condemn or cast disdain about current opportunities and discussions … But I make no apologies for making editorial comment in regards to a past exchange of unpleasantries …

Continued discussion on potentially new and exciting events took a bit of an alarming side exit towards the end today … and rather than continue to extend the length of that particular topic, I thought it might be a good idea to start an entirely new, but somewhat related, discussion.

Someone suggested in Toronto recently it would be a good idea for a new “fetish event” to have a “board” consisting of certain demographics within our ‘community’, mainly consisting of a Dominant man and woman and a submissive man and woman, responsible for making all key decisions.

This is starting to sound a little bit too much along the same lines as the “rules” of a GTA area “group” that, in my opinion (amongst many others) has thankfully DIED a wretched and deserved DEATH.

That group had, as its leader, the installment of a person who seemed to insist upon being recognized as a “queen”. While that particular person and her ‘minions’ thankfully seemed to have faded from view, it is a bit alarming that some of those conventions have managed to work their way, by way of casual mention, into this mostly positive and enthusiastic discussion. I am quite certain every large “SM Community” in the larger Western Civilization cities have experienced similar, if not the exact same, problem.

For the record, I won’t entertain angry banter between former members any of that imperialistic kind of  ”group” and myself. It is fairly well remembered in Toronto that I personally found this one particular group quite pedantic and only worthy of open and continuous ridicule, while I was told by more than one person “in confidence” that I was Public Enemy Number One in their collective eyes for pretty much their entire existence. This isn’t designed as a “kicking when they’re dead” attack on this group of people, but more to draw attention to one of their misappropriated conventions that, sadly, seems to be hanging around a little far too much for my liking, or the collective GOOD of our proclivity …

“Protocol” is a badly – BADLY – misused term in our peculiar predilection. “Protocol” refers to, by definition, diplomatic agreements including treaties and trade arrangements; an imperical and internationally standardized set of rules for medical research and the publishing of papers; a published statement relating or reporting on scientific observation and verification; and an international computer language, again with universal standards, in which machines can communicate with each other.

When used as a verb, “Protocol” refers to the the issuance of any of the above nouns.

Just because so many people use the word doesn’t mean its usage is correct.

I didn’t start hearing the use of the word “protocol” in am SM related sense until I started reading some of the (eye-rolling) posts that was being offered out by that aforementioned deceased tiny group. I’ve since seen it virally spiral and disseminate through the internet in other major centres as “acceptable terminology”. Now, I really don’t care who started using the word “protocol” first in an SM sense, however: the truth is, its WRONG.

Is there difficulty with using the terminology we SHOULD be using? How about the words “ritual” and “etiquette”, which both actually fit FAR better as proper terminology for a procedural SM setting?

I have always thought the insistance of the use of the word “protocol” stemmed from a very poorly written but over-popularized series of books by a certain popular “vampire” authoress: she created a fantasy ‘Kingdom’ and environment with fantastical, ‘regal’ people – and a recently silenced ‘queen’ started making claims that people in SM subculture “world wide” used that term when referring to the code of conduct that took place at their gatherings. That claim was a farce – but it seems to continue to propagate … I could go into a long dissertation about the many, many misused examples of the English tongue in the Gorean “life” … but I don’t really feel like having the “tarns” and “sleens” of the Gorean “masters” unleashed on my formerly-fat ass in retribution …

At least, not tonight …

Could we possibly have a discussion about this and perhaps make a committed effort to actually stop propagating the illusion that we are deserving of some kind of “Kingdom” status – which would somehow justify the use of the word “Protocol” in a diplomatic sense?

I know – it’s very hard to stop a runaway train. But I can at least try and throw some switches to force it off the tracks …

Kardynyl SynysTyr

“… If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur …” ~ Doug Larson

MARQUIS AMERICA toy review with Mistress Darkniis. She knows the toys as no other and we are proud to have her on the blog reviewing toys & accessories!

I have often been asked about the toys that line the walls and many
drawers of my dungeon.  As I am both a Professional and a Lifestyle
Dominatrix, all of my equipment has been put through its paces. I have
several projects on the go that require product quality testing for my
own line of products and for the products of others. Here are some of
the results of my favourite toys and gear, from my haus to yours; for
your reading pleasure… Darkniis’ Toybox.
Sinvention Original Padded Locking Fist Mitts

 From the website:

“NOW improved to absolutely prevent any use of hands by the wearer.
Please don’t mistake these items for the low quality asian made knock
off versions being offered by other sellers. Pesky fingers and cold
winter nights are just what these Padded Fist Mitts were meant for! We
have designed these top quality items using super soft lining leather,
high density foam and a full grain thick glove leather outer. Heavy
welded buckles and dees combined with a lockable post fitted on to an
expertly finished bridle leather strap will keep these mitts securely
in place until you decide to take them off. The ergo shape forces the
wearer to hold their hand in a fist shape preventing them from
extending any fingers outwards. Tis the season for the perfect
mittens!”

This is our first product review for Sinvention. The Mother of
Sinvention has sent us the Sinvention Original Padded Locking Fist
Mitts: www.churchofsinvention.com

These again were unveiled to my friends at C.O.P.E. and anyone else I could convince to try them on! They are very plush, padded and comfortable. As the website states, these are very high quality and carefully crafted. The hardware is heavy duty. The posts are lockable as pictured in the photo but the padlocks are not included. The Sinvention logo is stamped lovingly on the thick leather strap that holds it all together. I tried them on many sized hands – the larger hands are a little tight but they still can fit.

As soon as these were taken out of the box and put into my hands the creative wheels started turning… The way these mitts were designed they are multi-purpose for several different kinds of scening. They almost look like hooves so they would be perfect for the cold tile floors up north here in Canada! They are also suitably shaped for puppy play! My dungeon is largely medically themed and these are perfect for the psych patient.

One of the Dominants that got to look these over was worried about long scenes and the fact that having his subbie’s hands balled up into a fist for a long time would cause circulation problems. His girl tried them on and found the mitt to be quite comfortably confining. They are warm and soft inside.

I tried these out on one of my feisty grrls that is a swinger (she likes to lash out with swinging and kicking when you smack her in just the right way!). I pushed all the right buttons with her and made her swing those padded fists – even let her connect – it was rather amusing! Needless to say I remain bruise free thanks to the Sinvention mitts. We also had no problem with the “pins and needles” feeling from poor circulation.

Because the Mother of Sinvention takes such pride and care in the making of her products, I can guarantee you that you could put these through any heavy duty play that would normally involve wrist restraints. For those pesky subs that like to try and free themselves – these are better than cuffs because there is absolutely no way that anyone could free themselves from these. They are under your complete control until you unlock the padlocks that hold them. As stated above it’s also a lot of fun to let them try and swing at you (while blindfolded of course!) and not get any rise out of you.

The Mother of Sinvention is a fellow Canadian, so that makes her products all the more special. They are available in several cities across Canada and always available on the website. And last, but not least, she accepts PayPal for those of you that like the PayPal guarantee.

Go and become a member of the Church of Sinvention and let the Mother of Sinvention know that Darkniis sent you!

www.marquisamerica.com

MARQUIS AMERICA recommends Mistress Vendela Zane!

Look at that fabulous video from Mistress Vendela Zane were she spanks 2 radio reporters in the studio and live to the listeners!

 

How much fun is that? we need more public presentations like that. Vendela, that was a fabulous job and it was quite a show!

You bring a smile to everybodies face who watches that little video
Keep it up! If you want to know more about Mistress Vendela Zane, check out her site: www.whipgirl.com

Fetish Greetings www.marquisamerica.com

MARQUIS AMERICA recommends HELL, party in LA this upcoming week!

H E L L

 Main Area: Industrial – EBM – Futurepop – Noize
 
Smoking/Drinking Patio: Ethereal – Darkwave
 
Level 2: Live performances by
MALFAKTOR and VAMP STAR
with podcast by Normality on RantRadio

MARQUIS AMERICA recommends the Edwardian Ball!
This weekend is the Edwardian Ball, the biggest event of the year for folks who love costuming, burlesque, corsetry, circus, waltzing….and fetish wear, since in this town, there’s a LOT of crossover.

In particular, corset fetishery really shines at the Ball- it seems like every girl and half the boys are wearing corsets!

Friday night is the Dark Garden performance, featuring the most beautfiul, most elaborate, most spectacular Dark Garden corsetry on beautiful models in fabulous outfits. If you haven’t seen a Dark Garden fashion show, let me tell you it is really something to see. I just watch and drool.

BTW, you can now order Dark Garden corsets through the MarquisAmerica site!

http://www.marquisamerica.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=34&osCsid=fnibf61pt942k884tmnae8ng86

There will be an art show as well, including some of my own work from my “Sexy Boys” series- cute boys with whips and tentacles! And loads of bands, and burlesque, and circus acts. If you are anywhere near the Bay Area, do try to make it! And if you can’t, there are always amazing galleries of the spectacular fashions up on the site afterwards.

http://edwardianball.com/previously.html

Marquis America recommends Exquisite Restraints

 

I feel like the luckiest corset maker because so many people tell me they love my work and I’ve had a chance to work with some of my favorite people in the fetish and adult world. It’s pretty amazing to me that the way I’ve met people has been viral.. I’ll loan corsets to one photographer, who introduces me to a model, who wants to use my corsets again with another photographer and so on and so on. I count Christine Kessler as one of my homegirls here in Los Angeles and it’s been a thrill getting to work with Lithium Picnic and so many others. I’m so grateful my corsets get to go on these beautiful bodies and I’m part of this worldwide community!

Pics, all credited to Christine Kessler -Angela Ryan in a couture Overbust -Aradia Ardor in a black satin Underbust -Darenzia in a Limited Edition couture Underbust

http://www.exquisiterestraint.com/catalogue.html