After a huge success last year, Crazy-Rubber & Friends’ best male picture competition is back again… First price, a 100 euro voucher by BLACKSTYLE!
In order to join the competition you need a account on Crazy-Rubber & Friends and one or more photos of yourself in rubber. All candidates must submit their photos before 15. of October. The jury, seven lovely rubber happy ladies, will pick a winner. May the best rubber man win!
This just in from the Skin Two HQ:
Past guests have used words like “overwhelming” and “outrageous” to describe Exotica fetish weekends. The product of fetish model Vena and circus hellion Chaos, Exotica has become one of the top fetish weekends in the United States and essential for US and international fetish partygoers.
On November 7th – 9th, EXOTICA 4 in Detroit is hosted by Tim Woodward of Skin Two. Emily Marilyn hosts the VIP room, together with Ruby Luster. Featured guests include a Who’s Who of the fetish world – personalities such as Steve Diet Goedde, Perry Gallagher, Angela Ryan, Mistress Persephone, Aradia Ardor, Nori Haolo, Larry Bradbury, Vivian Irene Pierce, Nicotine, London Shadows, Evelyn Rose, We Are Latex – and more confirming each day. Exotica is about excess – the previous weekend featured over 75 performers in 48 stage shows!
Fetish Market and Exhibition
Exotica Expo
The 3 day Expo features dozens of vendor booths, displaying the best in fetish clothing, adult toys, erotica, art and jewellery. Half a dozen afternoon workshops are presented each day by experts such as Steve Diet Goedde, Nawa G and Lil J, Charlie B, Don Sir, Aradia Ardor and many more. A one thousand square foot dungeon play area is available all day long. Exotica 4 also marks the debut of latex couture designer Frenchy LaRue and fetishwear designer Hilary’s Vanity. Joining them in the fashion shows will be designers Ego Assassin, Ceres Moon, House of Bias, Leather Realm, Noo Moon, Grey Gargolye and Exquisite Restraint Corsets. On Friday November 7th, the SLICK! party and fashion shows are located in Clutch Cargos, a former church turned into a concert hall.
Saturday night’s EXOTICA SKIN TWO BALL features the best of the stage shows, with top national acts such as Chaos Productions, Paint Tribe, Vena’s Evil Dolls and Miss Pussy Kat – star of America’s Got Talent!
To take advantage of the new half million dollar sound system at the Crofoot Ballroom, Exotica’s enormous lineup of dance DJs is joined by guest DJs including Stitch (Mushroomhea), Curse Mackey (My Life with the Thrill Cult and Pigface) and New York’s Xris (SMack!) If you prefer a more intimate setting, enjoy the VIP Lounge upstairs, where there’s a separate roster of national acts as well as a play area.
Detroit’s top rock radio station has committed to extensive coverage of Exotica 4, as have many other stations throughout Michigan and Ohio. The event hotel is the luxurious Auburn Hills Marriott, which offers a huge discount to our guests – only $99 per night – as well as a complimentary shuttle bus between all event venues, through the day and night. Be sure to ask for the special Exotica 4 rate – ask for Sylvia. Hotel details are here – http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/dtwpo-detroit-marriott-pontiac-at-centerpoint
For further information go here – www.exoticadetroit.com
Vex Clothing’s long-awaited new menswear line has arrived, and it’s a rather cool and androgynous collection of separates which will surely appeal to Legolas, Perish, and other elfin types. The Smoking Shirt will work on all body types, including more portly rubberists, and would be a nice, formal addition to any guy’s closet. I’m also firmly convinced that a kilt flatters all body types, and knowing Vex’s excellent reputation for their made to measure service, a latex fiend could hardly go wrong in selecting their Piega model, which is made with lovely actual pleats. Vex has also introduced a fully boned mens corset–something which rubber guys always seem to crave and can never really find.
I had a chance recently to check out Rubber Bob‘s work in person, when a local friend modeled his made to measure black latex shirt and jeans for a few hundred partygoers at Manifest‘s summer fetish fashion party. I’m very impressed with the workmanship and the fit, as well as the extremely fair prices for a made to measure shirt or catsuit. Bob seems to be back in business, after catching up with a slew of orders, 
so drop by the site or in person at the shop in London’s Forest Gate neighborhood to place an order before the crush of customers clammering for affordable, attractive menswear!
Hedony Design of Paris is still crafting sexy and modern latex womenswear, such as this sweet latex and lace top and skirt. Another standout is the Drape Scarf.
And finally, we think we’ve found one of the most unique catsuits for the week, courtesy of Rubber Catsuits, the Latex Sumo. Enjoy!
Peter Acworth’s fetish porn empire takes over the San Francisco Armory to create a new kind of dot-com
“When it comes to BDSM porn peddlers Kink.com, apparently size does matter. At least, that’s how it seems now that the steamy studio has purchased the 200,000-square-foot San Francisco Armory. Suddenly, everyone wants to know: What’s the carnal concern going to do with all that space?
The answers are more diverse and ambitious than one might expect — ranging from creating a racy reality show to starting a perfectly PG-13 public community center. And thanks to the lascivious and lucrative imagination of Kink.com founder Peter Acworth, it might all be possible.”
San Francisco Bay Guardian has the full story…
Kittie Klaw of The Ministry of Burlesque, London’s leading school and social networking portal for aspiring burlesque artists, gives her unique insight into the world of fetish:
“To ‘fetishise’ is to attribute special power to an object of personal fixation, for the goal of achieving a desired mental, emotional or spiritual state of being.
Unsurprisingly, the original meaning of fetish belongs in the lexicon of the church and is usually ascribed to the potency of religious icons believed to deliver healing and atonement. But, when people talk about ‘fetish’ today, they are often referring to lifestyle choices beyond faith where personal habits are often born out of secular concerns such fashion and experimental (and often whacky) sex. Here, objects of fixation often hold personal meaning and sexual importance – be it a high heeled shoe, a whip or even another person enacting a specific role. “
