Von Gutenberg Magazine is proud to announce the Fashion Show from West Coast Leather at the Von Gutenberg Folsom Fetish Ball SEPT 25 at the supperclub in San Francisco during FOLSOM STREET FAIR.

Location: Supperclub, 657 Harrison Street in San Francisco in the heart of Soma District
Time:

7pm Bondage Dinner
9pm General Admission party 

We are looking for 5 female models size 2 or size 4 and 2 male models, fitting Thursday before event, $100 gift certificate from West Coast Leather, free entrance to ball and the current VG Magazine!

Please send email to sales@vongutenbergmedia.com

West Coast Leather offers high end Leather Designs in his store locations in San Francisco and Chicago. WCL also provides custom pieces and it is know for extravagant designs and his sex appeal. We are very happy Skip Pas the fashion director will be with us that night and will be celebrating his fashion show.

It will be amazing with west coast leather: www.westcoastleather.com

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Erik von Gutenberg recommends Fetish Nation again. Next event is next Saturday September 4 in Los Angeles. There will be mini work shops to pick up pearls of wisdom and valuable skills through hands on tutorials by the leading authorities of kinkology. Location: 6655 Santa Monica Boulevard, Hollywood, CA 90038. open: 9 PM and 21+

Naughty school girls go in, disciplined ladies are cranked out.
National grade averages continue to plummet as the country’s school system implodes by devolution.
The only chance to evolve your mind and fully actualize your self is to enlist in Fetish Nation University Saturday, Sept 4^th for a crash course in subordination, indoctrination,
mis-conduct, and self-mastery.
The massive stage room play stations will be joined by virtual classrooms holding continuous workshops led by LA’s Doms and Dommes who are leaders in their respective
areas of expertise. Whip your cerebral faculties into shape as you crack the whip to playtime and ponder whether there can be higher education in subspace.

Erik von Gutenberg recommends Comedian Rodney Carrington. The weekend starts and you need something to smile?  Please watch this video and enjoy. It shows we all love boobs! grin

Not all that long ago, one of Toronto’s better-know themed-fetish party promoters, Sir Alex Dark, hosted an event that catered to costume fetishists. The event was a smash – probably one of the most successful in Sir Alex’s long history or hosting incredibly entertaining, single-evening fetish gatherings in Canada’s largest city. When asked why he thought this particular party – the costumed focus of which was, by the way, based upon a “Super Hero, Super Heroine and Super Villain” theme – had been so enthusiastically received, Sir Alex merely smiled and replied, “There’s a little bit of hero and villain in all of us. It’s fun to dress up once in a blue moon, and have the chance to be super-good, or super-evil, isn’t it?”

Absolutely, and positively!

One doesn’t have to research very far back in time if they’d like to learn the genesis of costume fetishes. The Eulenspiegel Society (TES) has been paying homage to the adventures of the jester Till Eulenspiegal for decades with their particular brand of costumed antics. If you’d care to debate the subject a little more, suffice to say that masked balls have been a part of our party culture for centuries. In short, it’s quite grand – and extraordinarily fun – to dress, and act, as “someone else” for a night.

Sir Alex Dark’s costume event is undoubtedly the most popular of his long-appreciated fetish party revues and revelries. What made the first costume party such a success, apart from the chance to dress up and play the title role in their own super hero versus super villain passion play, was the chance to “interplay” some traditional, somewhat-campy predicament bondage interspersed with some obvious “Hero or Damsel in Distress” spontaneous scenarios.

The Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) is in full-swing during the dog days of August, and one of the highlights during this year’s Exhibition (which is sort of akin to the annual State Fairs in the United States) is the annual Canadian Fan Expo. It is the Fan Expo where comic book, science fiction and horror film fanatics can rub shoulders next to the likes of such pop culture icons as Adam West and Burt Ward (TV’s 1960’s version of Batman and Robin), William Shatner (does anybody not know who he is by now?), Lance Henriksen (Bishop from the Alien film series), Felicia Day (Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the immortal Dr. Horrible’s Sing-A-Long Blog) and – perhaps most iconographic of all – Marvel Comics revered and truly worshipped living figurehead, Stan Lee. The legendary Mr. Lee is the genius behind some of the most popular, beloved and (for literally decades) successfully-marketed comic book character rosters in publishing history. It has been said that only Bram Stoker (Dracula)has sold more literary-based product, and even that is debatable. It isn’t a coincidence that, while there are sure to be a few Stormtroopers, a Darth Vader or two, more than a few Klingons and/or Romulans and at least half a dozen Orcs represented at various costume balls, it’s the comic book characters that always take center stage at any larger-scale event: fetish, or otherwise.

Sir Alex’s super hero costume event, and the huge Fan Expo in Toronto, certainly can’t be termed ‘unique’: by all accounts. Several of our larger fetish communities in our larger cities have played host to some variant event based upon the Super Hero versus Super Villain theme, and most major cities play host to comic book conventions on an annual basis. So, it may be fun – if not downright appropriate, as we start to head into a fresh and exciting new gear-up to the Autumn revelry that is the Hallowe’en season – to give a definitive list of the Top Ten Fetish Super Costumes, and a somewhat detailed explanation of just why we love to emulate them so:

 Snikt! Snikt! It’s Number 10!

The Uncanny X-Men

Origin: Marvel Comics, 1963 by the immortal Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Re-launched in 1975, and again (“re-imagined”, in one of the greatest comic book series ever) in 1978.

Main Costumed Characters Emulated: Cyclops, Storm, Jean Grey (Phoenix), Rogue and, of course, Wolverine

Legacy:It can, and has, been said that the X-Men saved Stan Lee – and Marvel Comics – on three separate occasions. The original comic book issue run, from 1963 to 1970, are some of the most fiercely sought-after and coveted items within the comic-book collecting world. The series also has the distinction of being “re-made” with extremely convoluted and confusing story lines, character intros and exits (based on popularity of the time) and countless costume changes more than any other during its lifespan. The introduction of the “Jean Grey Dark Phoenix” storyline in the late 1970’s (largely credited to Canadian artist/writer John Byrne) truly revitalized the entire comic book industry – and X-Men hasn’t seriously struggled as a franchise since.

Why We Love Them So: The costumes have made significant, and frequent, changes over the years – but the general look and feel of the persistent main characters (especially Jean Grey and Wolverine) have remained virtually seamless from one era to the next. With Cyclops, it’s the visor (very “Steampunk”, really) and the hooded body suit. Storm, the (usually) black and/or white leather neo-stripper suit, combined seductively with the super-hot thigh high boots and long, long locks of pure white hair. Rogue looks like – well, a rogue – and is the most open to interpretation, costume wise, of any X-Men character. But it’s Jean Grey and Wolverine clones you’ll generally see at fetish costume parties. It isn’t unusual to see a latex-version Dark Phoenix swapping catty and curious looks with a leather-clad or Zentai-suited ‘counterpart’ from across a crowded room. Oh, and by the way, ‘snikt’ is the quiet-but-deadly sound of Wolverine’s claws extending from within his arms – just in case you were wondering.

Great Caesar’s Ghost! It’s Number 9!

Superman/Supergirl

Origin:Detective Comics (DC) Superman created in 1932 by the creative genius of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Supergirl created in 1959 by Otto Binder and artist Al Plastino.

Alter-Ego:Superman: “Mild-mannered” Clark Kent, newspaper reported for The Daily Planet. Entered life on the planet Krypton as Kal-El (No, Nicholas Cage is not Superman’s father!). Supergirl: Originally known as super-orphan Linda Lee, she changed her name to Linda Lee Danvers upon entering college. Also born on the planet Krypton and named Kara Zor-El.

Super Powers:Anyone with the prefix of “super” as a part of their title better have pretty spectacular powers for a hero. Owing to the heavy gravity of their planet of birth, both Superman and Supergirl can easily fly, exhibit near-invulnerable feats of strength, and possess several different variations of “super sight” (including x-ray and laser beam eyes), super hearing, and super “breath”. In short, they’re just all-around super!

Weakness:Seeing as their home planet exploded, even the tiniest chunk of dust originating from their home world could potentially be lethal to them. You’ve heard of it: it’s referred to as “Kryptonite”.

Why We Love Them So:What’s not to love? Skin-tight electric blue body suits and/or tights? Bright red cape with a matching, super-revealing equally tight pair of external briefs (Superman) and an incredibly short, flared school-girl type skirt (Supergirl – although we’re pretty sure Superman has cross-dressed on occasion)? Those red boots that look so naturally sexy on Supergirl – but only Superman can truly make look ‘manly’? And what about that logo? Are you kidding me? If Your Humble Narrator had that kind of muscular body, well, dress me up and call me Kal-El, I’m going to a party! There’s a reason Superman has been so incredibly popular for over seven decades, and not just in the pages of a color comic book: he’s iconic, timeless, and whether you want to admit it or not, he’s just damn hot in that outfit. The only thing hotter? Supergirl, of course! When you add the allure of an all-latex Superman or Supergirl suit – and there are sure to be at least two or three at every Costume Fetish party – it just doesn’t get any finer!

Here, Kitty Kitty! It’s Number 8!

Tigra, the (Former) Avenger

Origin:Also known as “The Cat”, co-created by Marvel Comics writers Roy Thomas, Linda Fite and artist Marie Severin, in November 1972.

No, This Isn’t Catwoman – But Why We Love Her So:We know what you’re thinking: “Who?” Unless you’re a die-hard comic book collector, there’s a good chance you’ve never heard of her – but she is representative of many of those clawed kitties at fetish parties who don’t profess to be a version of Catwoman. The various comic-book universes have had a number of feline-related Super heroes and heroines, with none more popular than Batman’s one-time arch nemesis and sometime love interest, Selina Kyle (more on her later – if you want to read about Catwoman, proceed immediately to Number Two on our list). With the rise in popularity over the past few years in cat-marked Zentai suits, Tigra seems as sound a bet as any to represent an entire legion of seductive and oh-so-deadly-sexy clawed cuties that would just as soon lick your face as scratch your eyes out, given the chance. The thing is, though, she also has one of the best developed and most consistent lexicons in the so-called Marvel Universe: she’s often been portrayed teaming through the years, in comic book pages and popular animation television shows, with the likes of Captain America, Iron Man and the Fantastic Four. Whatever the storyline, her trappings have remained virtually consistent: skimpy, tight bikini and, usually, little else except her own tiger-stripes and tail. She is typically portrayed with flaming red hair and in the pages of the comic books, is generally posed in suggestive and sensually-seductive postures (even when doing battle) in a way that would make Eric Stanton blush. All in all, whether the bevy of kittenish beauties is acutely aware of it or not, if they’re not attending a fetish event that is unmistakably a version of Catwoman, then they’re best described as a version of Tigra. Admit it: everyone thinks those nasty kitty-catsuits, Zentai suits and body suits are just plain sexy – and over-the-top in the “HOT” department! Some bold and enterprising young ladies have even allowed themselves to be body-painted, head to toe, during certain fetish events. There can be no better homage to Tigra than to suggest that she is representative of an entire legion of these near-nude, mysterious and alluringly artistic creature creations.

God in Heaven! It’s Number 7!

The Punisher

Origin:Created as an anti-hero and a foil for squeaky-clean Spider-Man by Gerry Conway, John Romita and Ross Andru in February, 1974. In all the kingdom of comic books, The Punisher’s rise to popularity has been the most meteoric – and his fall from popularity in the mid 1990’s the most precipitous. Of all main stream comic book characters, his portrayal in film and television projects has had to have been the most “toned down” due to the extremely graphic nature in which the violence he is capable of is often portrayed within the pages of his books.

Why We Love Him So:Frank Castle (The Punisher’s actual name) was “Goth” before Gene Simmons laced up his first pair of Kiss Destroyer boots. His iconography is simple, and yet one of the most recognizable (and easiest to reproduce as a fetish costume). A tight black T-Shirt, emblazoned with a gigantic, menacing Death’s Head skull (sans mandible), black pants and any variation of metal-encrusted combat boots, cropped spiked hair and leather gloves will immediately give other party-goers the distinct knowledge that a “Punisher” is indeed within their midst. It’s a virtually unspoken and unpopular thing to mention, but: many within the fetish world have an attraction, and are drawn to, immense firepower. In other words, many of us seem to really love our guns. The bigger and badder, the better – and with The Punisher the “big gun” is a costume necessity. The Punisher without his assault rifle or machine pistol is kind of like Superman without a cape, or Wonder Woman without her golden lasso: in other words, “quite lame”. Speaking of Wonder Woman …

Ka-Swish! It’s Number 6!

Wonder Woman

Origin:The first featured female heroine and everyone’s favorite Amazon, she was created for All-Star Comics (one of the early DC brands) by William Moulton Marston in 1941. She is the fifth longest-running continuous major comic-book character (after Superman, Namor the Sub-mariner, Batman and arguably, Captain America), and is without peer, longevity wise at least, amongst women heroines. She is unique in that she was created distinctly as a feminist role model, designed to empower young women and encourage them to enlist or otherwise join the American war effort, within days of the attack on Pearl Harbor in December, 1941.

Why We Love Her So:It’s definitely the boots (see Superman/Supergirl, above). Knee high bright red boots, sometimes with a coquettish white stripe running right down the shank to the toe just exude representative power within the form of the female leg. Let’s be honest with each other, shall we? Everyone – and I mean everyone – has a foot fetish of some kind. If we didn’t, well, Mahnolo Blahnik and Christian Louboutin wouldn’t exist. We just cannot ever get enough of a voluptuous, powerful and yet alluring feminine creature whose legs are accentuated by a great pair of red boots. Okay, maybe the bullet-proof gold and red corset with matching star-spangled girdle has something to do with her overall admiring form. Now that I think about it: that golden lasso – rope! – in which she expertly ties up her captives and extracts the truth is pretty sweet, too. While there are almost sure to be more “Cat People” in attendance at fetish parties, an expertly-attired Wonder Woman or two never fails to draw admiring eyes through the crowds – and sometimes tongues to the boots too, depending on the party. The look can go from ultra-sexy to ultra-cheesy (depending on the quality of the costume; some store-bought versions are downright ridiculous), but even media personalities have been known to try and pull off the look.

Back in Black! It’s Number 5!

Black Widow and Black Canary

Origin:The original Black Widow was conceived in 1940, and didn’t last very long – although she had the very cool alter-ego moniker of “Claire Voyant”. The more modern version first appeared in 1964, and was a creation of none other than Marvel Comics head-wizard himself, Stan Lee (working in concert with artist Don Heck and writer Don Rico). Black Canary is a far older character: she first appeared as a DC “sidekick character” in 1947, and was the brainchild of writer Robert Kanigher and legendary artist Carmine Infantino.

Major Difference:Other than Black Canary being a DC property and Black Widow a Marvel creation, the former is an All-American heroine while the latter is an anti-hero Russian super-spy. Black Canary typically wears a black body suit with black fishnet stockings, while Black Widow prefers the sleekness of her full-coverage catsuit. Black Canary is always depicted as a blonde: Black Widow, while on rare occasion (especially in the 1940’s) has been shown with jet-black hair, is usually seen with striking red hair. Black Canary also is blessed with a sonic superpower, while Black Widow compliments her deadly assassin skills with some serious firepower (she’s a trained weapons expert).

Major Similarities: Black leather, Martial Arts, statuesque body.

Why We Love Them So:Black leather, Martial Arts, statuesque body – again, what’s not to love? Of the female heroines and anti-heroines, these two are the easiest to emulate at a costume event. Even those not fortunate to have a full, representative catsuit can obtain the desired Black Widow look with a good pair of tight black pants and a thin jacket to match. Not a blonde or a redhead? Not a problem! There are more than enough good blonde wigs out there that can put the definitive “top” on the desired look. In fact, in the early days, Black Canary actually wore a blonde wig as a part of her (rather thin) disguise, as her original hair color was indeed far darker. The really cool thing about either costume is that they’re also flexible insofar as “accessories” are concerned. Black Canary usually has some kind of choker or collar, is sometimes depicted wearing black gloves and is almost always expected to wear a pair of folded-over slouch style knee-high boots. Black Widow is a little less flexible: those large, bullet-bearing (and sometimes deflecting) bracelets can be difficult to find, let alone make, if you’re not resourceful. The gun holsters and thigh-straps, though, shouldn’t be too tough for an enterprising costumer to manage. Of any feminine heroes, Black Widow and Black Canary are also the easiest to achieve if you happen to be a man who likes dressing in women’s attire for these kinds of fetish parties (although having the obligatory figure can prove to be a challenge for many cross dressers. Thank goodness for corsets!).

Schwing! It’s Number 4!

Spider-Man

Origin:Third in mass popularity only to Superman and Batman – but achieved his legendary status in roughly half the time – Spider-Man is the sole creation of Stan Lee and writer-artist Steve Ditko. The webslinger first graced the color pages of Marvel comic books back in August 1962. While DC Comics have consistently relied on the “license to print money” that is both the Superman and Batman franchises, Marvel has evolved through the decades. Marvel’s bread used to be buttered, in succession, by Captain America, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, the X-Men and, most recently, Spider-Man. Even the corporation’s splendid Roster Poster features the teen-aged hero right up in front – of hundreds of characters.

Why We Love Him So:Spider-Man is unique to super hero lexicon for a variety of reasons: not the least of which is that he’s a typical, emotionally vulnerable young man, and he’s fallible. Some of his “mistakes” have resulted in cherished and revered storylines involving the deaths of those closest to him that have, since their first publication, gone on to become a part of graphic novel history. While Spider-Man is unquestionably “super”, he isn’t all that different from any one of us from a human perspective: he is portrayed as nervous, shy, bumbling, temperamental and even prone to extreme episodes of anxiety. All of this makes him easy for readers to relate to. From a costume fetish perspective, it can be said that Spider-Man’s spider-suit – which has remained unchanged for nearly fifty years, except for the alien symbiant Venom storyline of the late 1980’s – arguably is the very inspiration for the silk and nylon Zentai suit craze of our modern day. In recent years, full Spider-Man inspired suits have been showing up in a rainbow of colors at parties across Canada and the United States – there is a fuchsia pink version seen out and about sometimes at Toronto events, for instance. Anyone who has attended a sporting event recently (you should remember the Red Zentai Brigade during the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games this past February?) will probably remember seeing a few Zentai suits, at the very least inspired by the Spider-Man costume, enjoying themselves, anonymously, amongst the crowd. It’s fairly easy to have a Spider-Man suite purchased, or custom made, for the super hero enthusiast: it’s quite another to be able to pull it off and not look awkward during a party. While there is almost always a Spider-Man or six at larger costume and fetish balls, there haven’t been reports of one actually being able to fire strong, tensile “webs” from his wrists or climb the walls … yet.

Hee Hee Hee! It’s Number 3!

The Joker and Harley Quinn

Origin:The undisputed “Clown Prince and Princess of High Crime”. They are what pass for a twisted, fetishistic version of Bonnie and Clyde. Bob Kane’s pasty-faced, green-haired and purple-suited homicidal maniac has been called “the greatest villain in popular media history”. The Joker predates most of the most cherished heroes within the comic book universe, having made his appearance in the spring of 1940. His female foil, the equally-murderous and diabolical Harley Quinn, is an anomaly: she began her “life” as an animated character on a Batman television series on September 11, 1992, and quickly became so popular as a “super villainess” that she was shortly thereafter given top-billing of her own within the pages of several DC comic books and graphic novels.

Why We Love Them So: Let’s face it: it’s fun to pretend to be bad. It’s even more fun when you can dress the part and pretend to be, simply, the baddest. The Joker is, without question, the most admired and emulated, sophisticated and refined bad-ass of all time. Let’s face it: this guy makes Darth Vader look like “just another great dad!” The Joker appeals to that base, predatory instinct that resides in all of us (especially males): he’s an unrepentant, sociopathic hunter whose sole existence is not only a result of, but an absolute continued reliance to, the dogged near-destruction of a single man.

“Near”, because while The Joker is undeniably insane, he is completely aware of the fact that in order to justify his own continued existence, and to give a reason for his very life, he must perpetually be a criminally-minded mirror to the one and only man he truly admires and respects: his arch nemesis, the Batman. In the comic book universe, there is no Batman without his Joker to continually challenge him. The deep hatred, and yet deep mutual respect both damaged men have for one another has never been written, or portrayed, to greater effect than what was done with staggering impact by Alan Moore, Brian Bolland and John Higgins in their landmark 1988 publication, The Killing Joke. That publication changed comic books forever – it introduced the concept of the ‘graphic novel’ – and has been acclaimed as the inspiration for several films, television series and subsequent book projects. Costume-wise, the look of both The Joker and Harley Quinn are not easy to achieve. Body-type is indeed a limitation, and it isn’t easy to find purple pinstripe suits, orange dress shirts, green bow-ties and spat-shoes these days. In fact, the easiest part of The Joker ensemble would probably be the makeup: green hair dye, white paste and bright red face paint are relatively simple to obtain these days. It’s easier for a girl to try and pull off the Harley Quinn look: although typical representations at fetish parties tend to be, by admission, custom-designed and produced pieces (sometimes complete with one red, and one black, matching and identical pairs of gloves and boots, one for each hand and leg). Many desire to be The Joker and Harley Quinn at fetish balls – very few can actually pull it off. Those that do typically come out on the winning side of any “Best Costume” contest judging, though. See, there’s a reason why The Joker is the only comic book character, to date, whose actor-portrayers have earned nominations for Oscars, Golden Globes and Emmy Awards. The Joker is the only main stream comic book character to have been awarded an Academy Award: the late Heath Ledger turning in a performance for the ages in 2008’s The Dark Knight.

Whir-CRACK! Its Number 2!

Catwoman

Origin: Selina Kyle first entered the pop culture lexicon in the same publication that introduced The Joker: DC Comics Batman #1in the spring of 1940 (considered one of the four “Holy Grails” of comic book collecting). The old girl, better known as the ultra-sexy, sensual and emotionally-scarred Catwoman, remains the single most popular female character in the comic book collector’s universe. She was inspired by, the story goes, Jean Harlow and a cousin (by marriage) of Batman creator Bob Kane. Her costuming has changed over the years: her popularity has only increased. She is not quite a villain – but could never be a hero. She is often depicted as an impossible interest of affection to her greatest rival – and greatest love – the Batman. The very word “catsuit” is a direct result of how this character was drawn and portrayed during the zenith of her comic book popularity; in other words, from the 1950’s up to the modern day.

Why We Love Her So:Few literary characters have had more consistent “variations on a theme” throughout the decades as Catwoman. None have achieved her popularity. She is universal: she appeals to most women in general, and especially to all women of power. She made the cat o’nine tails and the bullwhip not just sexy, but downright lustful and even desirable. She exudes what men fear, and desire, the most: a sensual potential lover who reeks of constant danger, and excitement. The genius of the presence of the Catwoman lies in simplicity: her outfits, for over sixty years, may have changed colors (she’s gone from green, to grey, to purple, to black) but the clawed gloves, the boots (short or high), the form-fitting body suit and, especially, the cat-eared mask have all been a necessary part of her fashion accoutrement’s. She has the distinction of having created, by far, the most media adaptations related to comic books, including having a jaw-dropping number of beautiful Hollywood actresses play her through the years in movies and television projects. Many different versions of Catwoman could be represented at a fetish party: some women (and a few select men, even) may choose to wear an Avengers-type black leather, latex or PVC catsuit with either lace-up or pull-on high-heeled, thigh high boots; long black gloves (with or without metal claw “accessories”); a whip of some fashion (usually a single-tail or cat o’nine tails) and the ever-present cat-mask, of course. Some have chosen to include the more modern goggle-wearing masked style the current iteration of the comic book character favors, while others prefer to don just the cat-cowl itself. Regardless of which version a dedicated fan may choose to wear to an event, it is doubtless she would ever be mistaken for any other character other than Batman’s delicate but oh-so-seductively-deadly feline foil.

Biff! Bam! Pow! Its Number 1!

Batman

Origin:You know him. You truly love him. Everyone wants to be like him. He’s Bob Kane’s square-jawed, obsessive and perpetually tortured crime fighter deluxe who first entered the public consciousness in 1939 – and never left. Before his death in 1998, Bob Kane said that his inspiration for the Batman character came from Douglas Fairbanks: or, more specifically, his portrayal of Zorro. Kane also mentioned that Leonardo Da Vinci’s design for an “ornithopter flying machine” was the main inspiration for batman’s wing-like cape.

Why We Love Him So: Most heroes within the pages of comic books are “super”. That means, naturally, that most of them have some kind of power that is generally beyond the normal, physiological limitations of human beings. Some heroes can fly, almost all possess some level of super strength and almost all have some kind of physical weakness which could, when utilized by a super villain or two, prove to lead directly to their personal Waterloos. Batman, however, has never been portrayed as anything other than one-hundred-percent human – with very human frailties and weaknesses. In essence, Batman represents the potential and possibility that any one of us could rise to that level of heroism – with the right training, intelligence and expertise. Of course, it’s convenient that Batman’s alter-ego, Multi-billionaire Bruce Wayne, happens to be described as one of the “wealthiest men in the world”. It helps to be able to have the disposable income to build and accomplish virtually anything that you may wish to.

Regardless of Batman’s fantastic wealth, he is forever flawed: he’s a haunted, moody, violent and vindictive man who doesn’t hide too many of his character flaws from the people who know him best (which are admittedly few). The normal human failings a rich, handsome playboy is expected to have – a weakness for booze and babes, for instance – Bruce Wayne “fakes” in order to portray himself as an alcoholic party machine. More admirably, Batman doesn’t kill – and he has a deep aversion to traditional firearms. All told, he is a character that we can easily relate to, and even more easily identify with and desire to emulate. Dressing the part is about as close to being able to “be” Batman as almost all of us will ever get, and we do it with great enthusiasm. At conventions, costume balls and fetish parties, Batman is usually the best-represented character, and some fans take great pains (not to mention spend an inordinate amount of money) to achieve the desired effect. A Batman costume isn’t something to be attempted lightly – a bad Batman costume could end up looking utterly ridiculous (and let’s be honest: The Adam West 1960’s version almost universally looks ridiculous), especially when compared side to side with someone who took years, and even thousands of dollars, to perfect their own caped crusader look. It isn’t just the armored suit, the gloves, the cape and the cowl, and the boots a dedicated Bat-Fan needs to obtain: part of Batman’s attraction is the wearing and utilization of his “Belt” that is integral to an accurate, and respected, portrayal of the character. Of any comic book character, Batman is the one that is most adaptable to an evolving time. The armored suit has, with little variance, remained recognizable for generations of fans. It is unquestioned the Batman will remain a favorite of costume enthusiasts for generations to come. His appeal is universal, his methods breathtakingly timeless. There is a little piece of Batman that resides in all of us, and it’s probably the biggest reason why his image is so incredibly popular (yes, even at costumed fetish events).

“… If the cut of the costume indicates intellect and talent, then the color indicates temper and heart.”

~ Thomas Carlyle, Victorian-Era Historian and Essayist

Honorable Mentions: The Watchmen (particularly Silk Spectre, Comedian and Rorshach); Green Arrow, Green Lantern (although to most of us, he looks like a totally ambiguously gay hero in that outfit); Green Hornet (what the hell is it with the color ‘green’?); Captain America; Iron Man (if you have the resources to pull it off); Daredevil and Elektra; Scarlet Witch; Vampirella.

(Notes on the usage of photos: All photographs have been reproduced through acquisition via General Domain on the World Wide Web. Photos of Supergirl and Catwoman in latex are used as a promotional courtesy, all rights retained by Bianca Beauchamp. Photo of Dark Phoenix courtesy of the costume design studio of Meredith Placko. Photo of Kim Kardashian as Wonder Woman, and all other images obtained through the graces of the General Domain on the World Wide Web. Images remain under the auspices of their original creators.)

Von Gutenberg Magazine recommends Beauty of Abyss! If you want to get inpsired and experience fantasy art at it’s fines then visit Thomas at his event in Karlsruhe August 27! Location: Blackstage Karlsruhe, www.blackstage-karlsruhe.de , Gablonzerstrasse 26, 76185 Karlsruhe, start at 7pm local time. Additionally you will see Haute Couture Fantasy Fashion from Provoque, very unique pieces and extraordinary designs. We from Von Gutenberg Magazine love the work from Thomas and you will be able to see some of his work in the upcoming winter edition of our Magazine!

On Friday August 27th the well-known photographer and founder of the Beauty of Abyss Photography Thomas Adorff will present his pictures in a very nice vernissage at the Karlsruher Blackstage location. The begining is 9pm and every visitor will get a welcome drink and for sure there will be fingerfood too.

Next to the pictures of Thomas also Susanne from Provoqué will present some of her Haute-Couture dresses. If you miss the Vernissage but want to see the images and pictures of Thomas you will be able to do that till September 17th.
Next to this, Thomas will have also 3 other exhibitions in 2010.

Erik von Gutenberg recommends the London Fetish Weekend starting October 1, 2010!

Now in its third year, the London Fetish Weekend is firmly in the diaries of kinksters worldwide.  Tickets have been selling fast and include guests from around the globe and as far away as Australia!

The fun packed weekend offers something for everyone and kicks off on 1^st October with a Club Subversion Special at the Colloseum in Vauxhall. The theme for this year’s event is Uniforms which is great for boys and girls! Subversion will have five themed areas including a huge dungeon area by Playpenz with ambient music so you can hear your whip crack, a French maid cafe with maid service, a pumping dance area with resident DJs Markie Moo, Si and Bas along with guest DJ Miles. Doors open at 10pm and tickets are just £18 in advance or £20 on the door.

Saturday daytime is shopping time with the London Alternative Market at the Royal National Hotel near Russell Square. A great chance to pick up outfits, toys and accessories from some of London’s most talented kinky traders. As well as being a great place to shop it’s also a great place to meet up with friends or make new ones in the bar area. The market is open from midday to 6pm and is just £6 entry (tickets are available in advance or on the door).

Torture Garden, the world’s largest fetish club, presents the London Fetish Weekend Ball at Mass in Brixton on Saturday night. This huge event features 6 themed rooms, radical performance art, body ritual, fashion shows, burlesque cabaret, live music, art installations, eclectic music and an enforced fantasy dress code. The range of music from DJs including David TG, The Secretary and Jimmy Mofo will make sure your feet don’t touch the floor from the moment you arrive! Tickets are £27 in advance or £30 on the door.

On Sunday you can choose from twelve workshops within three streams of play; Fetish & Fashion, SM play and Bondage brought to you by SiMply Workshops and the LAM. Workshops start at midday and go on until 6pm but you can arrive when you want and choose which workshops you attend as the day goes on. Food and drink are available throughout the day and with tickets at just £8 for the full day it is a great chance to brush up on your SM skills and pick up tips on play and fashion whilst socialising and making new friends.

Finally, Sunday evening is After Pandora in London Bridge. The theme is Bedtime Stories and will entail an enchanting night of kinky fairy tales, a sexy playful night to wrap up a fabulous weekend of fetish clubbing. Tickets for this adult pyjama party are £10 and numbers are limited so make sure you book in advance.

www.londonfetishweekend.com

Von Gutenberg Magazine just launched the third magazine VG3 and we are proud to announce Rubberdoll as cover model for this issue. You will find a stunning Rubberdoll interview and never published pictures just exclusively taken for the readers for Von Gutenberg! This video interview below was done during the photo shoot in Florida with Rubberdoll this summer!

More pictures, reports and models you will find in the issue 3 of Von Gutenberg Magazine – Fashion Fantasy and Lifestyle Magazine with columns from Midori and Violet Blue!

In the same issue you will see Mister SF Leather 2010 Lance Holman, Jewell Marceau, Sin Fisted and Mina de Sade. Stunning pictures and great interviews and additionally a big report on upcoming Folsom Street Fair past and present 2010.

Designers are Libertinesque, Madame S and legendary DeMask! We are all about Fashion, Fashion and Fashion again!

Get your copy now and enjoy the summer issue of Von Gutenberg – the number 1 in Fashion Fantasy and Lifestyle! And it is still AUGUST 2010 and we have still free shipping until the end of the month for Von Gutenberg magazines and for subscriptions of the Von Gutenberg Magazine! Take your copy before leaving for Burning Man this year and take advantage of free shipping within the US.

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Here the Cover Interview with Rubberdoll:

Von Gutenberg Magazine recommends LATEXPO in Hamburg, Germany.

The Latexpo is the new international Latex-Lifestyle-Event.

The guests of the Latexpo awaits a modern, diverse program. A program that should holdsomething for everyone to enjoy a weekend all about and around their favourite material“Latex”. Catwalk fashion shows, harbour-boat trips in latex, a dinner, a latex flea-market, the Latex-Fashion-Ball, Exhibitors and exposition, Rubberdoll contest, and much more.

Within the frame of this latex „Haute Couture“-event, designers and developers from all over the world, annually present themselves to the public. Once a year at the Latexpo, one gets to find out about the newest, hippest cuts and outfits, material and product development, as well as the most extraordinary creations. Numerous designers will be met, can take measurements, you can get to know each other or exchange new ideas. The professionals among the audience can use the Latexpo to offer the newest trends themselves in the following seasons. .

You would like to participate at the private latex flea market? We’ll put a free platform with a table and clothing rack at your disposal. Please register on our homepage under the menu-point „Flea Market Registration“.

You will see Bodycult, Savage Wear, Sensual Latex, Favour Kicks and many more … you will love it!

www.latexpo.de

Erik von Gutenberg recommends the Montreal Fetish Weekend coming up September 1 to 6, 2010 in Canada.

6 YEARS . 6 NIGHTS . 60 SHOWS . SEPTEMBER 1^st-6th, 2010

More than a group of artists or a mere event, the Montreal Fetish Weekend represents an ideal where one can express a desire to celebrate their fantasy turning it into a reality.

The Montreal Fetish Weekend attracts attendees from all over the world. Montreal’s legendary hospitality invites you to explore your secret self.

All inclusive VIP passes are available at a reduced price of $200 and includes a VIP goodies bag as well as accept to VIP lounge and play areas and 2 exclusive VIP events.

http://fetishweekend.com/

Wednesday September 1^st

MEET & GREET – Dungeon & Garden Mai : VIP exclusive event

Thursday September 2^nd

CLUB SIN 6^th Anniversary – Cabaret Cleo, 1230 St-Laurent : tickets : $20

Friday September 3^rd

KABARET KINK Fashion Gala - l’Olympia, 1004 Ste-Catherine E. : tickets : $35

Saturday September 4^th

WORKSHOPS – Hôtel des Gouverneurs, 1415 St-Hubert St.: 2-day pass $60

LATEXTACY Fetish & Fantasy Ball – l’Olympia, 1004 Ste-Catherine E. : tickets : $35

Sunday September 5^th

WORKSHOPS – Hôtel des Gouverneurs, 1415 St-Hubert St.: 2-day pass $60

EXHIBITIONIST PHOTO TOUR – Leaves from the Gouverneurs – admission is free

NIGHT OF MASKS AND VAMPIRES – l’Olympia, 1004 Ste-Catherine E. : tickets : $35

Monday September 6^th

FAREWELL SUPPER – Restaurant Julien, 1191 Union Ave. : VIP exclusive event

Not only is the event worth to go, but also the city of Montreal is just beautiful in September to visit:

http://ville.montreal.qc.ca/portal/page?_pageid=5977,40491560&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL

Erik von Gutenberg recommends HELL! August 21 again in Los Angeles. The new location is CIRCUS, 6655 Santa Monica Boulevard, Hollywood, California. From 9pm to 3am and find them online at www.myspace.com/hell_club

Here the flyers for the event:

Erik von Gutenberg is proud to announce August, the summer month, is also free shipping month for all Von Gutenberg magazines and for the Subscription of Von Gutenberg Magazines domestically.

Von Gutenberg – the leading FASHION FANTASY & LIFESTYLE magazine – features the most exciting latex models, top fashion designers and reports from the most delicious lifestyle events globally.

In the next issue coming soon, we report about Fetish in the KIWI paradise, the Naughty Victorian Age and the Legend of the FOLSOM street fair. Columns from Midori and Violet Blue and much more, we will keep you posted!

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Von Gutenberg Magazine presented Perish and will present him AGAIN! September 25, 2010 during FOLSOM STREET Fair 2010.

Please see the video from the last event with Perish! Also you will see Perish in the winter edition of Von Gutenberg Magazine coming up this winter season. He is the Fetish Superstar based in Los Angeles and we always love to work with him.

Enjoy the video below and here are the most important URL’s to secure tickets at the VG ball Sept 2010:

http://www.vongutenberg.com/shop/Event-Tickets/

http://folsomstreetevents.org/shop/product_info.php?products_id=22&osCsid=asg2aon3g0ea0cngsjje1hoeh6

It used to be, not all that long ago, that trying to purchase good resource books directly related to bondage, discipline and all things sadomasochistic was very nearly impossible. Unless you “knew a guy”, had some other kind of “connection”, or were fortunate enough to live in a large enough city where so-called underground publications were considered somewhat plentiful, in the days prior to Amazon trying to find reference materials relating to our lovely lifestyle could prove to be immensely problematic – and even potentially embarrassing. “Those kind” of books were usually only available at Adult shops (colloquially still referred to in some circles as “Adult Book Stores”) – and depending on what US state or Canadian province you lived in, tended to be made at hand to those who desired them only through an awkward and stammering specific under-the-counter request for product.

Thankfully, for those of us who revere our chosen alternative life expressions, the advent of the Internet has made it very easy to get our hands on virtually anything (within legality) we want. That has proven to be both an absolute blessing, by and large, and an abject curse in certain circles. For instance, in relation to the “curse”, some so-called expert materials have been published in the past whose content was either too dry and clinical, or nauseatingly ego centric (and we’ve all read those books, I’m quite sure) to be really only of value as a visible potential conversation piece on a bookshelf in someone’s dungeon or playroom.

For every Screw the Roses, Send me the Thorns (which in the opinion of several fetishists and SM practitioners, Your Humble Narrator included, is one of the worst books related to BDSM ever foisted on us), there seemed to be at least a dozen more similar volumes that were considered only marginally better. In the past, folks used to purchase SM-related books, I suspect, mostly to make a very visible pseudo-credibility statement to their peers. Many of these really, really bad books were purchased by really good people – and I know for certain most of them were never even read, let alone had their spines cracked. As time has gone on, we’ve been far more fortunate: the demand for good, solid, experienced reference material hasn’t died at all – it has, it seems, only escalated – and the quality of materials available to us has also thankfully increased. Part of that may very well be a simple matter of numbers, as more and more books over the past decade have found their way onto more mainstream bookstore shelves.

One of those exceptional books – in my opinion an absolute “must have” for every serious BDSM enthusiast – is How to Be Kinky: A Beginner’s Guide to BDSM by noted Canadian lifestyle educator Lord Morpheous. Do yourselves a favour and buy this book. It won’t just sit and look impressive sitting on your bookshelf: you’ll actually learn a thing or two, and you won’t be able to simply put it down.

What separates this book from similar works? To start with, it’s damned fun to read. I don’t want to give anything away, really – but as an example, early on in the book there is a very well-written narrative, relating an early experience, of Lord Morpheous and his efforts to try and explain to his parents why his dishwasher was filled with sex toys after he’d had a gathering while they were away. Drawing on the anecdotes and vast experiences of his friends and colleagues throughout the book, Lord Morpheous has ingeniously managed to capture the true essence of sadomasochism (it’s grand fun, damnit!) all the while providing witty and expert advice along the way. It’s a clever format: the reader expects or assumes the book to be, perhaps, another somewhat vapid and plodding “connect the dots of BDSM” instruction manual, but in fact its structured very much like a collection of topical (and extremely entertaining) short stories about people and their gut-wrenchingly and often gut-bustingly honest experiences. Naturally, if you happen to learn a thing or two along the way – and you will – that’s an appreciated bonus. Lord Morpheous is regarded as one of the very best rope bondage artists and educators within our realm today, but How to Be Kinky is so very much more than a mere ‘bondage manual’. There is a taste of fetishes from “A” to “Z” within its pages: there’s is sure to be something that everyone can relate to. Other “how to” books have tended to generally disregard entire legions of particular kinks (Screw the Roses, Send me the Thorns for instance contains virtually nothing but a somewhat contemptuous and dismissive reference to cross-dressing), but Lord Morpheous has adeptly managed to give respect and creedence to (almost) every fashion of popular fetishy sensual expression – and he’s managed to do it in a concise but wildly amusing manner.

It’s a brilliant, effective and natural way to introduce anyone (with even so much as a passing interest in kink) to all the positive aspects of what it is we love to do. That makes this book unique – and truly a “must have” for excited newcomer and experienced hard player alike. The novice will learn, in their own vernacular and at their own “level” because the anecdotes are all written in a way to be so appealling and interesting, and the experienced will just love the collection of stories. In short, Lord Morpheous has managed to author the much-desired and nearly impossible-to-reproduce “win-win” scenario; the happy balance in which his efforts truly will appeal to anyone and everyone, from the rookie to the seasoned veteran.

It’s a formula that has found much success in other genres: more specifically, in sports books and even more specifically, in baseball books. I do not know if Lord Morpheous is much of a sports fan: but the man knows how to write, edit and convey tales so well, that I am confident in saying if he wanted to write the definitive work on playing water polo, it would be the world’s best and more informative seller on that topic in history.

Personally, I’d much prefer to wait for his sure-to-follow “Volume Two” efforts on How to Be Kinky. I’m sure Lord Morpheous could explain it perfectly – but I’d rather read about his experiences and lessons in BDSM than just how the hell those water polo guys manage to get snorkels and masks on their damned horses.

Erik von Gutenberg recommends Fetish Factory in Fort Lauderdale! Not only the anniversary party is the hottest party of the year but as well the monthly FF parties. Come to the Revel Night Club this Saturday! Alter Ego is always every second Saturday of the month. Mark your calendar!

Special guest DJ Marvelous Kendall will be spinning indie from 10-midnight, plus 1/2-off admission (that’s only $5) & 1/2 price wells & domestics before midnight. Resident DJs SIN & 16BIT will be spinning a mix of new and old favorites. Be sure to make REVEL part of your Saturday night plans, whether you’re club-hopping downtown or dancing & drinking all night at Sea Monster.

Always visit the FF web page for specials and great offers: http://www.fetish-factory.com/

Here already a visual taste of the upcoming August event with Fetish Factory:

Erik von Gutenberg is happy to announce the 20th birthday celebrations coming up for Boutique Bizarre in Hamburg, Germany.

Once more, this summer it is going to be very hot. One of the biggest and hottest erotic shops of the world is having it’s 20^th birthday.

On the 21^st august erotica Boutique Bizarre is celebrating its 20^th birthday with a happening for all senses. The party will offer such exiting acts, fitting to the interesting program of Boutique Bizarre e.g. Burlesque-Shows, Walking Acts and a lot more surprises. Enjoy a glass of sparkling wine, celebrate the party, watch the shows and on top of everything there is a 20% discount (sat/sun) on absolutely everything .But that’s not all!We support the charity project of mamazone e.V. with our BB-Latex- Rose – a little red latex rose on a clip: 100% of the proceeds from the rose will be given to mamazone e.V. an association for women and a research program against breast cancer.  

erotica Boutique
Bizarre Reeperbahn 35
20359 Hamburg – St.Pauli
Tel. 040 31769693
info@boutique-bizarre.de
http://www.boutique-bizarre.de/

Facts and Information about BB:1990 Boutique Bizarre opened it`s gates in the mid heart of Hamburg on the Reeperbahn. Over the years the little store developed into a sophisticated eroticstore with 1500 m² sales area.  The most modern Erotic store offers on two levels a unique offer of special love toys, extravagant fetish fashion of latex, lacquer and leather and a big supply on dessous & underwear. Additional an extensive assortment of erotic films and literature. The friendly and competent salestaff and bright and big rooms makes shopping to a feel good experience. In the store-own gallery there are frequently art exhibitions as well.

Erik von Gutenberg recommends Club Hell in Los Angeles. This Saturday July 17 again at CIRCUS 6655 Santa Monica Boulevard, Hollywood, CA 90038.

HELL’s time-honored, traditional 1st hour begins with hosted vodka bar,

Now courtesy of SKYY.  dark art shows resume on the expansive outdoor courtyard curated by Liquid City. 
Tattoo artistry by Saint Heaven. Vending by Vamps and Tramps, Yxtabay, and Brand-X Toys.

Dj’s DemonSeed and Robo-DM will pelt your sensory organs with HELL’s

Signature electro-industrial-ebm noize and blinding visual assaults. 

The second level of HELL combines the dark 80s and retro-electro

Disciplines exorcised by cult DJs/promoters Bruce Perdew, Juicy Jay and Eser. 

The trance laserium is fair game for those HELLravers in need of an epileptic fix.

Beware of lustful devil go-gos, precarious exploits by aerialist Leigh of

Bound Lotus, and torture chamber atrocities by resident chieftains of pain:
Mistress Melissa, Sir SkipDog, CharlyB, DungeonCorp, The OtherWorld,
RubberNecro, Master D, Mistress Nicolette and Giggles. 
plus, you’ll definitely want to hang around for the b-day party shenanigans honoring
Steve Joyner, Owner and Director: Constructs of Ritual Evolution (CoRE)

New larger than life bondage provisions powered by DungeonCorp and
Uncensored Designs.  you can now bring in your own bondage gadgets
and paraphernalia to properly discipline your fellow sinners.

As HELL warms up at its inaugural launch into the big top this saturday,
Batcave officially graduates to a quarterly special event festival occasionally
coinciding with our bimonthly clubs.  for this saturday only, these two
immortal promotional syndicates intersect in the performance stage zone as
the Batcave sect presents live performances by Slick Idiot, featuring
En Esch and Guenter Schulz of KMFDM plus Mono Mur and Saints of Ruin.
fetish play will undoubtedly spill out to other Circus chambers this saturday;
future HELL nights will allocate the entire stage room for sick stage shows and
rampant  play zones from 11pm onward, following a single live performance by select, featured musical talents. 

Von Gutenberg is the leading Fashion, Fantasy and Lifestyle Magazine based in San Francisco and covering the global fetish fashion Couture and alternative lifestyle and latex designers. Von Gutenberg Magazine also features leading artists and photographers in every issue as well as the major events worldwide.

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Erik von Gutenberg is proud to announce the DEVIANTS party at the Folsom Street Fair 2010. After the Von Gutenberg Folsom Fetish Ball Saturday night, is the Deviants party Sunday Night.

If you think Folsom Street Fair is just too short, well the party doesn’t have to stop! Get your friends together and head on down to the new Official Closing Party of Folsom Street Fair.

This is a party that is open and welcoming of everyone in the community! With sensational demos, performed by Kink.com and BoundGods, there is something for everyone, including the hottest DJ line up you’ll find all week long! Buy your tickets now because this event is sure to sell out fast. Only a limited amount of door tickets are available.

DEVIANTS
Sunday, September 26, 2010
525 Harrison Street, San Francisco
6:00pm – 2:00am (right after the Folsom Street Fair)

Tickets: http://www.vongutenberg.com/shop/Event-Tickets/

For general information on the Folsom Street Fair go to:

http://folsomstreetevents.org/index.php

Von Gutenberg Magazine is recommending Blackstyle, exquisite fashion and great designs!

BLACKSTYLE is making high class latex clothing since 1992. Latex lovers can order from the web store www.blackstyle.de or buy directly at the retail store in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg. In addition to standards like latex jeans, chaps, masks and jackets you can also find a great selection of toys and bondage equipment as well as leather gear. For designers we offer everything you need to make your own clothes: latex sheeting, glue, zippers and metal parts. BLACKSTYLE is shipping to over 50 countries worldwide. Our designs are off mainstream and made to play in them! For those who look for something very special, we offer a made-to-measure service. Our designer will be glad to help you to find your dream latex outfit.

Sign in to the BLACKSTYLE newsletter. Then you won´t miss the monthly special offers.

www.blackstyle.de

In the True North strong and free, Canada Day has triumphantly passed and given way to Our American Cousin’s spectacular Fourth of July preparations and (eventual) celebrations. The honoring of the birthdays of our two great nations always signals the beginnings of the most important events on our collective social calendars. From the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Gulf Coast to the Arctic Circle, we proud North Americans look forward to commencing festivities that pay reverent homage to our most beloved of pastimes.

No, I do not speak of the start of the Canadian or American football seasons. Neither do I deign to mention that baseball, that grand old “uniquely American” game (yes, my British cohorts, I am well aware that you used to call the game ‘Rounders’, you know), truly hits its stride after the grand Nationalistic drunk-fest and massive, impressive fireworks displays of July 1^st and 4^th, respectively.

The numbers of all those who have, to this point, hanged those cheap little nationalistic flags from their automobiles and rooftops, and fervently bellowed at the top of their lungs their patriotic devotions to their “homelands” (most of which have never even set foot in said “homeland”, I might add) have even been drastically reduced. This is due, naturally, to the sobering fact that “their country” being represented in soccer’s World Cup, currently being contested in South Africa, have been eliminated from the world’s greatest tournament. July 11^th, 2010, the World Cup Final, is sure to be a spectacle not to be missed, to be sure: but unless your heritage originates from one of the two nations playing in that Final match, your interest level is sure to be marginal at best. So we’re not eagerly anticipating that quadrennial happenstance necessarily, either.

In point of fact, we’re not even enthusiastically discussing any sporting events at all. The onset of summer also ushers in the new round of most-desired Fetish Events. This year, in the appropriately named Year of the Tiger, features some July and August events that simply must be billed as “can’t miss”. For your information and edification, Your Humble Narrator has compiled (in his considered professional opinion) the “Cream of the Crop” of events that you, gentle reader, may wish to think about spending some time at. There is a lot happening this summer – and in a tremendous amount of places. I’ve therefore divided this Event Guide into distinct parts. This week, you’ll be reading about Fetish Bets for July 2010, with dates, pricing and locales noted as necessary:

1). TESFest 

 Piscataway, New Jersey            July 2^nd – July 5^th

Anyone who has been around the “scene” long enough knows exactly what “TES” stands for. The Eulenspiegal Society seems like they’ve been around forever and a day – and in a certain sense (at least in regards to the collective Fetish Community), they have. TES was started in 1971 by an individual named (appropriately enough) Pat Bond and a number of others in the greater New York City area who were appreciative of “outlandish costumes and strange behaviors” and felt it was high time to create a ‘society’ where everyone could express themselves in comfort and without fear of compromise. TES certainly wasn’t the first Fetish group to organize and start encouraging kinksters to come out and participate: but they most certainly were, by far, the most publicized. The Society, named in somewhat of a tongue-in-cheek reverence and in recognition of an old German folklore character known as Till Eulenspiegal (the fellow in which we are indebted for supplying us with the prototypical “Jester”; or for card playing devotees “Joker” imagery, and also for inspiring the phrase “he marches to the beat of his own drum”), has been conducting large-scale events off and on over the past nearly four decades. Their annual offering is known as TESFest and is held, generally, during the Fourth of July celebrations within the New York/New Jersey area. This year the event is being held at the Radisson Hotel in Piscataway, New Jersey and features a number of pursuits sure to satisfy the tastes of every fetish purist. Whether a visitor would prefer to take part in one of their excellent classes being offered for instruction, or indulge a bit in some nearly scandalous behavior during the Cloud 9 and Cloud 10, Kinky Ladies Afternoon Tea Party or the Latex Pool Party events, there is certain to be the heights of hedonism enjoyed by all who have decided to participate.

Unique Feature:  There is a “Tops and Bottoms” Auction, a Wrestling Club Workshop as well as a Charity Kinky Casino taking place during the weekend-long festivities. Often copied but seldom equaled, TES usually and simply just “does it better” when it comes to unique, quirky and downright fun special events.

Website: TESFest

2). PRIDE Toronto

Toronto, Ontario             July 1^st – July 4^th

The City of Toronto has been chosen as the host burg for the World Pride Event in 2014 – and rightfully so. With the notable and definite exception of San Francisco, it’s arguable that no other major world city has such visible support – from the Federal, Provincial and Municipal Governments to the “common” event visitor, no less. This year’s Pride events actually swung into full gear with an official opening on June 25th – but the weekend of July 2^nd, 3^rd and 4^this really when the party really gets rocking. In addition to the usual Street Festivals and parades within Toronto’s legendary Rainbow District, there are a quite a few family and adult-only activities planned that are sure to please the discerning party palettes of everyone who ventures into Toronto’s downtown core. The ridiculousness and utter nonsensical violence of the whole G20 fiasco has been left behind: there’s a party in Toronto, and everyone’s invited! This (and the next two years, for that matter) is sure to be an exceptional “dress rehearsal” to the city hosting the LGBT world when 2014 finally rolls around.

Unique Feature:  While there is always a selection of new performances to sample during Pride Week, this year Toronto’s Buddies in Bad Times Theatre Company is hosting an interesting ensemble entitled No Apologies. Many of Canada’s best young and rising musicians, actors, poets, dancers – hell, artists from all disciplines – will be performing non-stop from 2:00 pm to 10:00 pm on July 3^rd, 2010, within the Theatre space itself and the Alexander St. Parkette located right outside. There is no question some of these performances should be worth a look. Northbound Leather, as is their custom, is hosting a Meet and Greet at their store location on Yonge St. Friday, July 2^nd and is also facilitating a Kinky Boat Cruise on the evening of July 3^rd (admirably and strategically coinciding with the beginning of a Tall Ships Festival along Toronto’s gloriously beautiful waterfront).

Website: PRIDE Toronto

3). Bondage Ball

 Hollywood, California                July 3^rd – July 4^th

For whatever reason, Southern California doesn’t get a whole lot of enthusiastic attention within the confines of the Fetish world event scene. Perhaps the organizers of Hollywood’s Bondage Ball during the Fourth of July weekend can rectify that. Greater Los Angeles has always been somewhat of a “well kept secret” amongst Fetish and SM practitioners. Quietly – very quietly – some of the best performance acts, educators and facilitators have made their way out of the City of Angels and are gaining popular notoriety in more traditional Fetish event locales. Internationally-known latex model Masuimi Max is your Hostess for the evening – but there are a number of jaw-dropping acts scheduled to perform. Some of these acts include well-known artists Julie Simoneand RubberNecro, aerial performances by up-and comer Bound Lotus and a veritable pantheon of extremely popular Los Angeles-based DJ’s. By all accounts, it’s taken some time for Bondage Ball in Hollywood to gain some traction, but with the quality of people represented that are responsible in part of its continued success, here’s hoping it will not only continue to entrench in Southern California: it will evolve into one of the truly “Can’t Miss” events on the international social Fetish calendar.

Unique Feature:  It’s Southern California! It’s Hollywood! Sure, their overall formula may appear to be derivative – but it’s Hollywood, for cryin’ out loud! No-one throws a bad party in Hollywood! If that wasn’t enough, take a look at their website and try and grasp the true sense of just how many “name” folk within our realm will be in attendance. The best part of it is … it’s only going to cost those who go $25.00!

Website: Bondage Ball

4). Vancouver Dungeon

Vancouver, B.C.                        July 3^rd – July 4^th

Okay: all of you who happened to see that incredibly reprehensible first season of Showcase’s Canadian-based ‘reality series’ KINK can relax. Vancouver really isn’t all that freakishly dysfunctional. A much better representation of what Vancouver’s scene is truly like might be found in Metro Vancouver Kink’s simplistically, straightforwardly named Dungeon Party. In a town where the Fetish and SM scene is about as respected as those who “ply their trade” along Vancouver’s embarrassing East Side, it certainly seems like someone got their stuff together. The Vancouver Dungeon Party is somewhat secretive, to be sure – but all the necessary information needed to become a participant is available: as long as you don’t mind directness, and “to the point” information. According to those I have spoken to in Vancouver, the MVK and their Dungeon Party has given rise to some real hope in a town where, beforehand, very little existed when it came to “Community Fetish Events”.

Unique Feature:  There really isn’t anything overtly remarkable about the Vancouver Dungeon Party that is readily available online that would distinguish it from any number of other “run of the mill” nightclub gatherings. What does distinguish it, however, is the simple fact that there’s long-term hope for a solid, re-occurring SM/Fetish night amongst good, solid people in Vancouver for the first time in what seems like an eternity – and that in itself just has to be “good news” for kinky inhabitants of the West Coast’s truly most beautiful city.

Website: Vancouver Dungeon Party

5). Vendetta

Long Island, N.Y.                      July 11^th – July 12^th

Billed as Long Island’s “Premiere Fetish Party”, Vendetta generally is scheduled to take place every second Saturday in Bethpage, Long Island. This iteration, however, is a little bit different: there is going to be an attempt made to break a “World Record” by a gentleman who calls himself The Human Floor and has been featured as a performer on a number of US-based talk shows. What’s the record being broken, you ask? You should certainly be able to figure it out based on the man’s name – but suffice to say there will probably be at least 20 women in high-heeled shoes and boots just … “standing around” … The play areas have all received a “first class thumbs up” from certain close friends who have attended Vendetta in the past, and their DJ of choice (Xris Smack) is regarded as simply one of the best in the business. For July 2010’s itinerary, they are also featuring a unique latex Fashion Show as a part of the evening’s festivities – and there is always “Gourmet Food” included with the price of your entrance ticket. All in all, Vendetta not only covers all the bases desired and demanded by their guests: it covers those bases extremely well and provides just that little “extra” that keeps everyone coming back for more.

Unique Feature:  One of the things that separate Vendetta from other major New York City area Fetish nights is their in-event promotions. For instance, in the past there has been a “competition” designed to award the wearer of “the sexiest shoes” for the evening: this alone was certain to bring every shoe and boot fetishist for miles around through their doors (and let’s face it, who amongst us isn’treally a slathering, salivating shoe or boot fetishist, anyway?). A somewhat interesting twist: Vendetta offers a substantial reduction in ticket prices to those who can prove they traveled from New York City to Bethpage via commuter train. What makes this feature really of value to party attendees, however, is the fact that the proprietor of Vendetta (by all accounts an engaging individual known as Mister Anthony) takes it upon himself to arrange transportation from the Bethpage train station to the event venue (The Long Island Manor). That’s unique – and one of the reasons why Vendetta is a clearly a step above some of the more stolid, stereotypical Fetish nights in the New York City area.

Website: Vendetta

Next Week: We take a look at Kinky Camping in Southern Ontario and Northern Alberta; large-scale Fetish Flea Markets in Massachusetts); one of the best-known large-scale events in Colorado; and “The Fifth Element” and what that means to folks in Texas. 

Erik von Gutenberg recommends Fetish nation this Saturday!

Celebrate the 1 year anniversary of

FETISH NATION
SATURDAY, JULY 3rd
(and every 1st saturday of the month)

represent your favorite fetish theme from FN over the last year:
military, medical, nun, schoolgirl, latex, police officer,
french maid, etc.

- first 100 through door receive vip cards for the new HELL,
relocating to Circus july 17.

- FN snuff girls serving complimentary white lines

- 2 for 1 beers/well drinks before 10:30pm on 2nd level

- resident player performances by Mistress Melissa, The OtherWorld,
CharlyB, Sir SkipDog, Master D, Ladies of the Dominion, Fetish Noir,
Mistress Nicolette & Giggles, Rubber Necro and
aerial acts by Leigh of Bound Lotus.

Bondage Ball joins this event’s insanity to help celebrate our 1 year mark.
confirmed special appearances by Dahlia Dark, Dungeon Servitus,
Julie Simone, Masuimi Max, Mosh, Perish, and Victoria Vengeance.
for full access, including Bondage Ball, get tickets at www.BondageBall.com.

3 huge zones of electro-goth-industrial dance music inflicted by:
Robo-DM, Dem6nSeed, Asphyxiation, Juicy Jay, Sally, Bruce Perdew,
Amanda Jones, Matthew Grim, Danny Graver, Hypnotica, and Slaughter.

Vending by Uncensored Designs, Vamps & Tramps, Yxtabay, and Brand-X Toys

FETISH NATION
contained within hollywood’s
most massive club venue:
C I R C U S
6655 santa monica blvd.
(couple blocks east of highland)
hollywood, ca 90038

Von Gutenberg Magazine recommends The Beauty of Abyss,  inspiring photography and artwork. Thomas is an incredible artist and we are looking forward to see much more from Thomas in the future!

Thomas has also agreed to be in the Winter edition of Von Gutenberg Magazine as well and we were happy to interview Thomas at the German Fetish Ball.

You can find The Beauty of Abyss in the web here: http://www.beautyofabyss.com/

Thomas shows erotic art and erotic photography on his website, has a newsblog and you can find dates when he is displaying his art in different locations. You can follow Thomas and the Beauty of Abyss as well on twitter. 

Von Gutenberg is the leading Fashion, Fantasy and Lifestyle Magazine based in San Francisco and covering the global fetish fashion Couture and alternative lifestyle and latex designers. Von Gutenberg Magazine also features leading artists and photographers in every issue. In the current edition you find Ken Marcus from Los Angeles and Dirk Hooper from Oklahoma.

Online you can find us on our homepage:

www.vongutenberg.com

Erik von Gutenberg is proud to announce an early bird special for the Von Gutenberg Fetish Ball September 25, 2010 during Folsom Street Fair this year. With the following coupon code you will get 25% off of every event ticket until June 30, 2010 in the Von Gutenberg Shop category event tickets:

VGFOLSOMPARTY

This is your coupon code for the top fetish event of the year during Folsom Street Fair 2010!

Day: Saturday, September 25, 2010
Location: Supperclub San Francisco, 657 Harrisson Street in the SOMA district in San Francisco
Time: 7pm for the bondage dinner
Time: 9pm for great dance & performance night
Tickets: http://www.vongutenberg.com/shop/Event-Tickets/

And here the first great message and one of the highlights of this evening and I am sure a lot of you know from the last Fetish Weekend in March what this means:

Perish, Fetish Superstar and Performer will be at the Von Gutenberg Folsom Fetish Ball and will perform!

More updates and news you will get here on the Von Gutenberg Blog until September and we promise you a great Fetish Night with Strict Dresscode and the right stimulation for the Folsom Street Fair the day after Sunday September 26!

www.vongutenbergfetishball.com

Erik von Gutenberg recommends Cybernet Expo in San Francisco.

Cybernet Expo is the longest running trade show that’s geared specifically for the adult Internet business.  Cybernet Expo moved to San Francisco in 2008, where it launched its successful “Intensive Training” series of single instructor classes designed to teach attendees various tactics for operating successful adult entertainment businesses on the Internet. The show also features its classic “Industry Insider” series of panel discussions, where attendees get to hear from a diverse group of adult industry experts about the state of the industry and current business trends. 

Cybernet Expo also provides attendees with opportunities to network and make new business contacts; the show runs a speed networking session for attendees, and also offers a three-hour event called “Show and Sell” where attendees can visit various exhibit tables to meet representatives from various adult companies, while picking up free promotional giveaways in the process. 

Evenings are taken up by private parties that are open to the show’s attendees only; past parties have included events like exclusive evening concerts, trips to local adult establishments, and tours of local adult Internet studios. More information about Cybernet Expo, including additional information about courses, discussion panels, sponsorship packages, networking events and evening parties, can be found at http://www.cybernetexpo.com/ and for more information please email jay@ynot.com or phone 512-388-1728.

Registration for the July 8-10 show can be found here: http://cybernetexpo.com/2010/category/register-online and if you sign up before the end of June you will save 20% off the advance rates!

Erik von Gutenberg recommends the laced Up Boutique In Utrecht!

The Laced-Up Project: It’s not just a boutique, it’s the community’s Head Quarters

Laced-Up Boutique in Utrecht, the Netherlands, has never been just a shop. The founder Sarah Mobley has a rich background in the music industry and entrepreneurship plus years of experience personally as an activist for sexual minorities.

In 2007 Cupid’s arrow brought her from the US to the Netherlands, and less than one year later the Laced-Up Project was born.

In the 1950’s pin-up inspired boutique Sarah focuses on making the shop and webshop a retail heaven for kinksters of all preferences and fetishes. Given the boutique’s name it follows that she is a true advocate of all things that lace up. Last year Sarah launched the Laced-Up Boutique line of clothing & toys, in which her dream designs are becoming reality. The line features beautifully made corsets, leather, PVC/Lak and some latex. The LU line is described by Sarah as “fetishwear that is practical and elegant in a wide range of styles and sizes at reasonable prices.” In the rustic cellar we find BDSM tools & the best adult toys. One of the first toys in the LU line is the Laced-Up Lash which is hailed as the easiest single tail in the world. The Boutique also carries extraordinary clothing, accessories, and toys from other designers including the likes of Tatjana Warneke & Masters in Steel.

It turns out that Utrecht is home to more fetishist and other assorted kinksters than anyone ever imagined! Early in it’s inception Sarah jokingly started calling the mission to build a cohesive community United Utrecht Perverts, UUP in short, and the name’s stuck. There’s so much to do now in Utrecht! Word has spread beyond the local boundaries and now people from all over the Netherlands come to Laced-Up Boutique and its many events.

On the calendar you’ll find the Laced-Up Kink Café with its retro fetish cocktail party ambiance set in a private club on a lovely canal in Utrecht’s Centrum. A now legendary kick start for the Kink Cafe evening is the Pervert Pub Quiz, where partygoers team up to win fun and salacious prizes.

Another branch of the project is the Laced-Up Institute for Alternative Sexual Education which offers wickedly fun workshops hosted by highly experienced kinksters. Small classes of people gather at the HQ to learn about subjects such as kinky sex, and all the wonders of the BDSM/Fetish world. There are also free monthly BDSM/fetish discussion groups full of laughter, support and lots of chocolate! The Laced-Up team of volunteers makes the educational and social events for the community possible at low or no cost. Educational books ranging from bondage to age play are also available in the Boutique and webshop.

With a twinkle in her eye Sarah says, “We’ve only just begun!”

Check out the website at Laced-Up.nl and the United Utrecht Perverts forum on http://fetlife.com/groups/6244 .

URL store: http://www.laced-up.nl/

Von Gutenberg Magazine recommends high heel speakers!

If you’re a woman who seriously loves her heels or just any general person with a serious foot fetish, now you can have a pair of speakers to show off your real love in the world.  These bright red shoes are sure to attract all sorts of attention, so you’d better be ready to come out of the closet with your foot or shoe loving tendencies.

You may think it’s incredibly strange for anyone to create speakers like this, much less have anyone buy them, but there’s something you should know.  The speakers are Japanese, nuff said.  The USB speakers have an output of 3W x 2ch.  Should you be highly interested in getting a pair, they’re not the cheapest USB speakers out there.  They cost 4480 Yen or about $55, plus the amount of shipping it costs to get them outside of Japan.

Source: http://www.newlaunches.com/archives/heeled_shoe_usb_speaker.php

Cyberesque, clothing from above the Stars!

Von Gutenberg Magazine had the pleasure to visit Cyberesque at the German Fetish Ball in Hamburg this year. They do clothing for men and women and the items are simply stunning. If you are looking for a corset one  has to be for sure from Cyberesque.

Here is their web address: http://www.cyberesque.de/ ! They are located in Germany but will ship worldwide. Simply stunning pieces and Erik von Gutenberg was very and impressed and the whole VG team is looking for more news from the new collection!

Enjoy the interview on the Von Gutenberg Blog for Fashion, Fantasy, Lifestyle and Fetish news & Couture.

www.vongutenberg.com

Erik von Gutenberg recomemnds Lewbaricon! lew Rubens presents the first bondage weekend on a western style ranch!

Come learn Lewbari and have a weekend of fun on a big western-style ranch presented by bondage lover Lew Rubens; Foxy, our favorite bdsm cowboy; and Mistress Gwen, proprietor of the Dark Paradise Ranch! just half an hour outside of Duluth, Minnesota!

Experienced rigger and suspension artist, Lew Rubens has a love and passion of bondage that shows in his work. Known mostly for his wild suspensions, Lew joined the public side of BDSM play spring of 2001 and started his website, BoundNDetermined.com.   A few years later Kink made him an offer he could’t resist and he began running Waterbondage for them from winter 2006, through spring 2008.  At that time moving into a “Bondage Consultant” position for the prestigious company. On his own again now, Lew has plans to revive Boundndetermined.com and well as starting exciting new sites Lew Rubens.com and Lewbari.com. as well as contracting his Bondage Consulting knowledge abroad.  Lew has presented his workshops and demos of his unique style at many BDSM and bondage industry events throughout the US, Canada, Jamaica and Germany.

Complete with western-style BBQ, a Barn Dance, Ho Down, Drum Circle, Bondage classes by Lew from basic bondage thru suspension! THIS IS NOT YOUR TYPICAL EVENT FOLKS! Camping available on-site if you want it. Nearby hotel (at your cost) if you don’t like camping. Two meals per day included with admission, a brunch-style breakfast and BBQ for dinner!

Lewbari classes all day Saturday, taking you from beginner to expert through complete lessons. Foxy really knows Pony Play folks! See exhibitions of Pony Play…Heck you can BE a pony if you want! Lew is learning to throw a lariat, and Foxy can throw one too in case there are wild fillies to be caught!

The big Barn will be set up for a Barn Dance on Saturday evening and above the barn is a beautiful dungeon with many play spaces for your bdsm enjoyment.

Come early, stay late!!

Attendence Limited… so don’t be left out!

Schedule:

Thursday – Come in the morning or any time during the day. Relaxed set-up and get comfy day with informal Meet ’n’ Greet, light meal, light play and bondage games.

Friday – Brunch style breakfast. Impromptu bondage games, bdsm games like: Predicament Bondage and Mindfucks, Suspending between two posts!
Rope and sex ,Rope and Pony Play, Rope and take down/Interrogations
Using your resources (tying to a tree….to a fence..to a bale of hay…ect…)
Hogtie race! THIS is really fun! Girls can sign up and compete. Two winners. One for first hogtied girl to cross the finish line and one winner for the RIGGER who
tied up the last place finisher! , Pony Play exhibition, Calf (subbie) roping, Rope and mindfucks, OTK spankings, Femdom. Medical play, bullwhips WHATEVER!! Pagan drum circle, Sacred bonfire, Western Style BBQ and or course play all night!

Saturday – Brunch style breakfast. Lewbari classes all day! Stations set from beginner to advanced which Lew will supervise. All hands on bondage! Big BBQ and barn dance in the evening, play in the dungeon, more drumming and bonfire!

Sunday – Brunch style breakfast. Last minute play and instruction, event decompression time, say good byes, etc…

***Note*** Camping is primitive. Motor homes or travel trailers are ok but there are no trailer hook ups. There is a Cedar Sauna and hot showers available!

Also, this is a SMALL event people! We only have room for 100 people!
Get your tickets fast!

Attendence Limited… so don’t be left out!

Cost:
$350 per couple
$220 per single

These are earlybird prices good till 1 July, 2010. On 1 July, 2010, They increase to $400 per couple and $260 per single so register NOW!!!!

Bondage producers welcome! Lots of cool places to shoot!

Email Lew: matilto:lewrubens@netscape.com

Website: http://www.lewbaricon.com/lewbaricon.html

Von Gutenberg Magazine is proud to announce the Folsom Street Fair VG Fetish Ball Saturday Night September 25, 2010! Von Gutenberg Fetish Ball during Folsom will be one of the highlights during this fantastic weekend!

Day: Saturday, September 25, 2010
Location: Supperclub San Francisco, 657 Harrisson Street in the SOMA district in San Francisco
Time: 7pm for the bondage dinner
Time: 9pm for great dance & performance night
Tickets: http://www.vongutenberg.com/shop/Event-Tickets/

And here the first great message and one of the highlights of this evening and I am sure a lot of you know from the last Fetish Weekend in March what this means:

Perish, Fetish Superstar and Performer will be at the Von Gutenberg Folsom Fetish Ball and will perform!

More updates and news you will get here on the Von Gutenberg Blog until September and we promise you a great Fetish Night with Strict Dresscode and the right stimulation for the Folsom Street Fair the day after Sunday September 26!

www.vongutenbergfetishball.com

Erik von Gutenberg recommends Xris SMack and the New York Fetish Marathon this weekend! Also please see the venue change below for tomorrow night:

VENUE CHANGE for the SMack! Anniversary tomorrow

TOUCH 240 w.52nd St (between 7th/8th Aves) NYC 10019
(across the street from Roseland Ballroom)

and the last chance to buy ADVANCE TICKETS:
http://smack-fetish.tix.com/

and the NY Fetish Marathon events this week (June 2nd-6th):

http://nyfetishmarathon.com/

NEWS AND UPDATES:
the complete schedule for this years events has been announced Fet Marathon” during registration for our special reduced rate

* our OFFICIAL HOST HOTEL:
the Hotel Pennsylvania NY – 701 7th Ave @ 33rd St NY NY 10001
(across the street from Penn Station) 212-736-5000 (“Transylvania-6-5000″)
$149 single bed room / $169 double bed room
say “

* If you are a visiting Mistress, we also have our “NYFM Domme Placement Center“
that can help you find the right Dungeon or play space for your sessions

* if you have any suggestions, recommendations, or would like to volunteer,
please contact us at contact@NYFetishMarathon.com

* Advanced Tickets for Fetish Marathon Events will be available at:
- Purple Passion : 211 w. 20th St. New York, NY 10011 (212) 807-0486
- The Baroness : 530 E. 13th St. between Aves A/B New York, NY 10009 (212)
- Demask : 144 Orchard St. New York, NY 10002 (212) 466-0814
- Gothic Renaissance : 108 4th Ave @ 11th St New York, NY 10003 (212) 780-9554
** The Baroness offers 10% off all latex in her store for those buying tickets to any Fetish Marathon event!

Erik von Gutenberg likes Christina Aguilera in fetish clothing!

CHRISTINA Aguilera has a kinky side — she loves to wear “fetish gear”!

The Dirrty hitmaker says shooting the video for her raunchy new song Not Myself Tonight was “torture” because of the tight latex clothing — but she enjoyed it!

“For my video shoot I didn’t go to bed until five in the morning… in the freezing rain, in the cold, wearing a two-piece red latex outfit. Torture!” she said.

“I got nauseous with exhaustion from the video shoot. It was just a long day.

“Did I get a skin allergy from the latex? I did get a little bit of a rash at one point. Where? Next question!

“I’m really into fetish gear and latex is really making a strong statement for me. Good body contours.

“Has my husband worn it? I would not know! And I’ll never know! You don’t want to get your b**ls caught in that.

“Have I ever toned it down? Never! Well, maybe when I was pregnant. There was no latex then.”

Christina — who raises son Max with her husband Jordan Bratman — recently insisted she won’t let motherhood stop her from being sexy.

“He’s going to grow up in a household where he knows mommy expresses herself artistically and some of that will have to reflect itself sexually too at times,” she said earlier this year.

“He’s going to learn to respect the fact that women are allowed to express themselves and not feel shameful about their bodies or their sexuality.”

 Source: http://www.showbizspy.com/article/205627/christina-aguilera-im-into-fetish-gear.html