Chaos, comforts and Covid
Having finally had my own dose of covid last week, I can safely say that between the wonder of vaccines and the mildness of Omicron, well, I’ve had worse hangovers. Yes, I was lucky not to have been sicker, but … Continued
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Shenanigans signing – win tickets for yourself and a friend
During the early, volatile stages of the spring of 2020, some of us were hoping Shenanigans would go ahead even as all the other dominoes were falling: unfortunately it became unfeasible to hold it, and the same was true of … Continued
Superstition, shame and luck
A recent depressing and exasperating covid-related trend is people announcing that they have copped a dose and then following it up with a bout of non-erotic self-flagellation – ‘it’s all my fault, I deserve it because I wanted to *go … Continued
Tiptoeing into 2022
A whole month into a new year… so how does 2022 look so far? In the short term, at least, further mass house arrest and further harm to the event and hospitality industries – and all your favourite fetish markets … Continued
Passwords, Safewords and Safety
Well, here I am in password hell again. Shouldn’t really complain, as it is lovely to have a Shiny New Laptop, but it is a touch tiresome to have to reset pretty much every password for every platform because, yes, … Continued
Parties, politics and puritanism
About what you’d expect, really: everyone losing their minds about the government’s Christmas parties last year and not bothering overmuch about their latest attack on democracy and human rights. Yes, fair enough, Partygate is probably the most blatant demonstration of … Continued
If you think consent is ‘unsexy’…
It’s International Day of Consent again. I wrote about it last year, but I have a few more thoughts (it is not, after all, unsexy to return to a topic). Someone or other was recently kicking off in the contrarian … Continued
The joys of outdoor trading
Home from a merry afternoon’s bookselling in the New Forest, I started remembering how some of my earliest stallholding antics involved outdoor trading. At 21 or so, long before fetish markets (or, indeed, before working out that I might … Continued
Some things don’t last forever
There was a time when everyone thought that everything on the Internet was going to be there forever – rings around the world. And, to be fair, some stuff hangs around and some stuff unexpectedly pops up when you’d rather … Continued
The fetish fair bonanza
The last time there was this much of a range of kinky shopping activities was over 20 years ago. When this century began, you could choose from the London Fetish Fair, the Whiplash Market (also in London), the BBB (still … Continued