LIFESTYLE

Originally published on Monday, 04 August 2008

Fetish Nation

My first memories of England are about sex. Or deviant sex, more accurately.

When I was a kid, the news reveled in each new sex-scandal, culminating with the Stephen Milligan affair. I remember asking my Dad what auto-asphyxiation was. He gave some long-winded scientific explanation, then paused and said:

"The English are weird about sex. That's all you need to know."

So I was hardly shocked when the Mosley scandal broke. After obsessively perusing Punternet.com, I hardly think paying a few women to dress up like Nazis and some light spanking and bondage is that shocking. Certainly not compared to the saddos that fork out for GFE.

Everything in the big smoke has gone kinky, it seems. From the opening of S&M's new café in Leadenhall Market to the upmarket bondagewear from Fleet Ilya to the fact that everyone I know is gagging (sorry) to go to the next Killing Kittens party.

Discretion, people. Look it up. It's a good thing.

 


S&M's new café - 28 Leadenhall Market, EC3V 1LR • 020 7626 6646
Fleet Ilya - 1 Dunn St, E8 2DA

  by EC

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