Thursday, March 26, 2009

A Pain-Drenched Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss


I had a Mick Jagger song stuck in my head today.
You have to love or hate The Rolling Stones, I think.
When I´m in a particular mood, the sound of Mick Jagger´s voice just seems to fit.
Kind of funny, since I don´t own any of their albums.
But I like listening to their music, once in awhile.

And today I was just thinking.
There is so much singing about pain in their song lyrics really.
Raw, bleeding pain just splashed all over their catalog.
And what does that say about them, hmmm?

Just for fun, I took a look at their lonnnnnnnnng song catalog & picked out all the pain-drenched songs,
and domination/submission-themed material.

Here is just a sampling:

(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Ain't Too Proud to Beg
All About You
Always Suffering
As Tears Go By
Back Of My Hand
Backstreet Girl
Beast of Burden
Bitch
Can't You Hear Me Knocking
Cry to Me
Dangerous Beauty
Dear Doctor okies I threw this one in for those into medical play...lol
Dirty Work
Fight
Gimme Shelter
Grown Up Wrong
Heart of Stone
Heartbreaker
I Can't Be Satisfied
Lady Jane
Let It Bleed
Licks Around the World
Mean Disposition
Mr. Pitiful
My Girl
My Obsession
One Hit (To the Body)
Out Of Tears
Pain in My Heart
Paint It, Black
Play With Fire
Pretty Beat Up
Shattered
She's So Cold
Short and Curlies cbt anyone? hehe
Slave
Start Me Up
Sympathy for the Devil
Tie You up (The Pain of Love)
Too Much Blood
Too Rude
Too Tough
Torn and Frayed
When the Whip Comes Down
You Can't Always Get What You Want the slave´s lament


and the classic....
Under My Thumb !

Angel :)


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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Torture Garden in Toronto: August 28-30, 2009

Hello Kinky Folks!

Well the official details are out!

Torture Garden has teamed up with one of Toronto's most major fetish events, subspace , to bring the TG magic to Toronto!

3 nights of fetish decadence (
August 28-30, 2009) will be happening, including a Friday Aug 28 Kick off Party presented by FetLife .


For more details & to purchase tickets, check out their official website:
Torture Garden Toronto


To sign up through facebook:

Torture Garden Toronto Guest List & Group


Thought I would share this update with you all,
Angel :)


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Friday, March 20, 2009

Tasting The Sugasm...Sugasm #161

I'm back in the Sugasm again, kinky folks!
Ah it´s been far too long since the last sugasmic taste...
Have a taste here & now.

Angel ;)


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Sugasm #161

The best of this week’s blogs by the bloggers who blog them. Highlighting the top 3 posts as chosen by Sugasm participants. Want in Sugasm #162? Submit a link to your best post of the week by emailing me directly at radicalvixenatgmaildotcom Participants, repost the link list within a week and you’re all set.

This Week’s Picks

The Balance of Power
“A wave of lust coursed through her body at his words”

Betrayal
“What’s this? Evidence of pleasure?”

Secret signals
“I will adore him for it”

Sugasm Editor
Not An Overnight

Editor’s Choice
The Ghost of Abuse

More Sugasm
Join the Sugasm

See also: Fleshbot’s Sex Blog Roundup each Tuesday and Friday.

(Sugasm participants should re-post all the links above within a week. The following links may be excluded as long as you include all the above links.)

BDSM & Fetish

Diary of a Futa (part 6)
Dream (100 words)
An Enigmatic Angel Returns *******MY POST********************
On display - Moroccan fantasy 2
Passion
So where’s the missus?
To be or not to be
A weekend with Miss Susan - My version

Thoughts on Sex and Relationships
The Ass
I forgot
Let the Catfighting Begin
Question #5
My Heart is my Strongest Muscle
No Woman
Owning Slut. Confession #239
Want

Sex Advice
Improving Male Orgasm

NSFW Pics, Videos & Audio
Betty in white stockings
The Blue
Delicate Curves -HNT

Sex News, Reviews, and Interviews
20 Questions with Jiz Lee
Blowjob FAIL - the Blowguard
Hysteria and the Hitachi Magic Wand
Industrial Pleasures - the Hitachi Wand
Interview with Daniel Bergner, author of “The Other Side of Desire”
LELO Liv (And Hot Hunk Hugh Jackman Pix)
Sex Toy Review: Go Ringo Cock Ring

Erotic Writing and Experiences
Blindfolded, in a dark forest
Crowded Elevator
How I Became One Groupie’s Real-Life Guitar Hero
Instant Messaging Fun! #1
Oxygen
The Scent Of A Woman
She almost killed me
Sick Day, Part 2
A Sweet and Dirty Love Fuck Story or The Librarian and the Writer
Video Nasty
Watching Girls III, Strike a Pose
What we did on Valentine’s Day



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Friday, March 13, 2009

Pain & BDSM Play: The Day After

Well here I am thinking about one of my favorite tasty subjects - pain.
Specifically on the subject of pain and BDSM play.

So I had a few questions turning around in my head and thought I would see if some kinksters would like to share their own answers with me.

Question:
What is the moment when you feel pain the most?

During bdsm play?
The moment you come down from subspace/masochistspace/otherspace?
The day (weeks etc...) after?

What kind of pain do you feel, during bdsm play...and after?
How do you feel the day after?

Which kind of pain,that you´ve experienced, lasts the longest?
A flogging?
A caning?
A paddling?
Some other kind of pain administered?

I was talking about how I thought a caning was something that lasts the longest, when I was having a chat with some fellow kinky people a little while ago. For me, a caning is a multi-layered kind of pain, which goes through many layers of flesh...and mind too, in some ways. A caning has a very particular sharpness to it that is unforgettable, I believe.

And what do you do to alleviate pain, the sensation of pain, afterwards?
Does anyone have any particular remedies that are proven effective?
Or are you of the school of thought that you would rather continue to suffer (and savour) the pain aftermath?

Well, kinky inquiring minds wants to know! :)

Please reply in comments to this blog.
If you´d like to respond in private, feel free to email me though my link:

Contact The Enigmatic Angel

Thanks!

Angel :)


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Monday, March 9, 2009

Torture Garden Coming To Canada

Hey Kinky Folks!

This is just fabulous news I wanted to share with you all.

Torture Garden is planning to be in Toronto on Sat. August 29, 2009!
So who´s up for a kinky road trip?? :)

I heard this straight from Allen TG himself, one of the founders of TG.


Watch the Torture Garden TGX trailer


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What is Torture Garden (or TG as its known for short)?


From TG´s website:

WHAT IS TORTURE GARDEN?

Torture Garden is the worlds largest Fetish / Body Art Club. Events Attract 800 - 2600+ people monthly to various London venues.

TG is also a top Latex Fetish Fashion Label and a Production / Performance Agency.

HISTORY

Alan Pelling and David Wood formed Torture Garden as a Fetish Club in Oct 1990.

Alan's background was as an alternative club promoter & DJ ­ new to London, and David's was a conceptual art & film graduate who had been going to fetish clubs since 1984. Together they were bored with the existing retro alternative clubs and suburban style fetish clubs. They wanted to create a new kind of radical alternative fetish club that combined diverse & progressive music, multiple environments, fashion, performance, visuals, installations, market area and more.

100 people came to the first event at the Opera On The Green venue in a shopping precinct in Shepherds Bush on a Thursday night, but by the 5th there were 500 and it was rammed! By this time TG had developed it's own unique crowd that combined the Alternative post Goth / Industrial, hard-core SM, Fetish Fashion and Gay & Straight scenes, with the totally new Body Art / Piercing scenes.

Early shows included body ritual by Thee Temple ov Psychic Youth, experimental percussion by Zev, music by Death In June & Boyd Rice and performance by Archaos Circus. There was no other club in the world like it!

WHY TORTURE GARDEN & TG?

Torture Garden was named after the turn of the century novel by Octave Mirbeau, which was set in a Chinese Garden of Torture. We chose it more because of the exotic and mysterious images that it evoked, rather than the specific novel itself.

From the beginning we often shortened Torture Garden to TG, because it was shorter and didn't scare the Bank manager! But it was also a reference to an earlier TG - Throbbing Gristle ­ the seminal industrial experimentalists and founders of Psychic TV, Temple Ov Psychic Youth, Coil, Chris n Cosey etc.

TG's circle logo was literally inspired by the back of a lorry! Keep an eye out in France?

EVOLUTION

Following the Opera on the Green, TG found new long-term homes at legendary industrial factory ­ The Electrowerkz and the 4 floor Paradise Club (later changed to Complex) before celebrating it's 4th Birthday at super club ­ Ministry of Sound. As the crowd grew from 700 to 1200+ this was TG's most innovative and original period as there was an explosion of talent and creativity. Fetish was now fashionable to the mainstream, and it never looked back. Other important TG venues included the Leisure Lounge before it found it's most long term home at Mass from the late 90's until the present. In 2002 & 2003 TG celebrated its Birthday event with 2500 people at London's biggest club venue - Brixton Academy, and since then has sold out SeOne to 2600 and established it's Birthday Ball as a international weekender of 4 parties in 3 days!

ACCEPTABLILITY OF FETISH

In the 80's and early 90's Fetish & SM was still taboo and very underground, and even dressing in Rubber and going to a fetish club seemed a dangerous activity. As TG's notoriety grew, so did the `shock & scandal' reports in the tabloids, resulting in the Police frequently forcing venues to close events in 1991 - 1993, and the shadow of the Spanner Case also hung over the scene during the early 90's.

However, as numbers attending grew at prestigious venues such as the Ministry of Sound, and fetish fashion and creativity influenced the mainstream, fetish became trendy and venues actively wanted us at their venues.

As British society opened up to sexuality in general during the late 90's, the media also changed in their attitude to fetish. From tabloid to channel 4, fetish was now generally depicted in a positive light.

In the new millennium it seems that everyone knows someone that's been to a fetish club and it's generally becoming acceptable. However fetish and fetish clubbing is not for everyone, and we don't want just any-body at our events.

THE CROWD

TG's multi-dimensional events cater equally for a huge range of open-minded individuals from young fashionable clubber to alternative arty weirdo and burlesque cabaret fan to sophisticated SM regular. Providing something for every-body from any age group (18-60+), sexual orientation and gender. Creating an environment that accepts and encourages individualism, diversity and free self-expression.

Ultimately it is the crowd above all that generates the energy and atmosphere of an event, and the TG crowd is the most diverse, radically dressed up and cutting edge crowd in the world wide scene. It is they who have made TG what it is.

At TG the crowd are the stars and everyone is a celebrity, but famous visitors have included Marilyn Manson, Dita Von Tease, Jean Paul Gaultier, Boy George, Courtney Love & Marc Almond. Unfortunately Adam Ant was turned away for not dressing up enough!

SHOWS / PERFORMANCE / ART

More than anything else TG has become world renowned for its incredible & theatrical performances and fashion shows. As well as staging extreme artists that no one else would put on, or discovering future big names when they were unknown. Dita Von Tease made her UK performance debut at TG in 1999, and all the scenes biggest names have appeared. Including:

Fashion: Torture Garden Clothing, E Garbs, DeMask, House of Harlot, Conflicto, Inner Sanctum, Murray & Vern, Manuel Albarran, So Hip It Hurts, HW Designs, Northbound Leather & Puimond.

Music: Tiger Lillies, Avenue D, Death In June, Boyd Rice, Genitorturers, Test Dept, Minty, Lab 4, Flesh Fetish, Von Magnet, Discordinated, Noblesse Oblige & Dynamo's Rhythm Aces.

Performance: Dita Von Tease, Archaos, Ron Athey, Franko B, Divine David, Lukas Zpira, Midori, Kumi, Marissa Carnesky, Masuimi Max, Porcelain Twinz, Suka Off, Psycho Cyborgs, Ryan Styles, Paloma, Scottee, Gawkagogo, Lucifire and Empress Stah.

Art Exhibition / Installation: Franko B, Trevor Brown, Araki, Romain Slocombe, Diane Harris. Legendary pioneer of the Modern Primitive movement - Fakir Musafer is scheduled to perform at TG in 2007.

MUSIC

TG is a progressive clubbing concept, it's never been tied to one style of music or fashion. As our tastes changed with the times, so TG evolved, fusing fetish with whatever clubbing sub-culture we were into. From the very beginning TG always wanted to be more than just a one room - one music club, and it's established club lands most diverse music policy, with 3 to 6 rooms currently ranging from Hard-on Dance & Electro House to Dirty Breaks & Drum n Bass; Glamour Trash & Disco Punk to Electro Clash & Booty Slut-core; Vegas Beats & Neo Swing to Lounge Exotica & Sleazy Rock n Roll; and Eastern & Ritual to Experimental & Film Soundtracks & almost anything atmospheric in the Dungeon room.

THEMED EVENTS

Many have described their first experience of entering a TG event as like stepping into another world. Like a scene from a film, a fantasy, it can be anything that you want it to be. TG events are about fantasy and role-play, and fully themed events can create a complete experience, including themed dresscode, club décor, visuals, music, performances and installations. Themes have included: Crash, Animal Love, War, Circus Side-show, Turning Japanese, Mid-Summer Nights Dream, Arabian Nights, Medical, Uniform, James Bond, Summer Beach Party, Halloween, Masque Ball, Heaven & Hell, Sci-fi, Jungle, Moulin Rouge, Carnival and Sex!

CLASSIC MOMENTS

There have been so many magical moments at TG events over the years and everyone's experience is different. Some personal favourites include: the Crash themed party which featured crashed cars in the venue and came closest to our aim of creating the total experience of stepping into a film set; the E Garbs fashion show at the Ministry of Sound in which models were transported up & down the catwalk suspended off the floor on a pulley system (some upside down!); Ron Atheys extreme body performance at TG Leisure Lounge, where the shocked security were poised to storm the stage and a famous Spanish performance artist fainted in the front row; and the Body Art - Art Kor hook hanging suspension from the ceiling of the Brixton Academy in front of 2500 people; or the Animal Love themed Valentines Ball that attracted a posse of Fur Suiters!

FETISH ETIQUETTE FOR BEGINNERS

A fetish club is an environment that encourages the exploration of one's sexuality, but there are also strict codes of conduct within fetish clubs. Touching anyone without permission or any form of harassment of any kind is strictly forbidden. In general fetish clubs are the safest, friendliest and most relaxed club environments. They are places where men, and especially women can dress-up and be themselves without fear of harassment.

DRESS CODE

The TG dress code strives to avoid narrow limitations and encourage individual imagination and diversity. A modern fetish club is like an adult fancy dress party and is more about fantasy and transformation than just rubber and leather. Also, many of the best outfits seen at TG are made by those wearing them or assembled from various second hand articles (i.e.: theatrical costume or uniforms). So if you can't afford expensive rubber or leather costumes then explore personal fantasies and use your imagination, or even try body paint! Please always remember that if your outfit wouldn't turn heads in the street - don't bother to wear it to Torture Garden. Also, many of those attending bring their outfit in a bag and get changed within the club.

TORTURE GARDEN ON TOUR

As London is the world's capital for fetish clubbing and Torture Garden is the worlds largest and most famous fetish club, the TG style of fetish clubbing has proved a popular export. With a small team providing DJ's, Visuals, Fashion and Performance, TG has staged regular full events or been guests all around the world, including: Tokyo, Moscow, New York, SF, LA, Fort Lauderdale, San Antonio, Portland, Croatia, Rome, Athens, Helsinki, Berlin, Amsterdam & Naples. TG has also toured the UK with events in Brighton, Edinburgh, Sheffield, Manchester and Milton Keynes!

TG PRODUCTION / PERFORMANCE AGENCY

As a result of TG's reputation for professional production, spectacular shows & performance, theatricality, themed parties, diverse music and striking visuals, it has been asked increasingly to produce events, stage shows or provide performers / characters for major Exhibitions, Clubs, Corporate Parties, TV or film projects. Therefore TG formed a Production Agency to cater for the demand. Its major production / directing commissions have included:

The main 40 min stage shows and walkabout acts for the Erotica Exhibition at Olympia London (to 70,000 people over 3 days) 1998 ­ 2005 & Excel Manchester. Main Arena stage shows and performance tents for Big Gay Out at Finsbury Park including the Frankie Goes to Hollywood firework finale. The Fuel Show for Max Power at Excel London and also NEC Birmingham.

Face Party at Truman Brewery, Kerrang Awards at The Brewery, Opal Nera Halloween Party; Rubber Ball 2000 -2004 and the launch party for Bravo TV. Plus supplying performers for both Archaos Circus and Jane's Addiction at the Brixton Academy; providing DJs, visuals and performers for Bizarre magazine's Circus of the Bizarre tour; and supplying extra's or performers for Judge Dredd, Preaching to the Perverted, Graham Norton, The Bill, and various other film, TV and Music video's.

TORTURE GARDEN CLOTHING

Torture Garden Clothing was established in 2002 by Kaisu Paakkola as the latex design offshoot of the world's most famous fetish club. It has since established itself as one of the international scenes leading high end fetish clothing brands. Worn by many of the top models and featured in all the major fetish fashion publications.

Torture Garden Clothing has staged fashion shows at many of the worlds biggest fetish events such as Torture Garden Japan, Fetish Factory - Florida, Wasteland - Amsterdam, German Fetish Ball, SF Fetish Ball, Smack - New York, Ritual - Rome, Underworld - Athens, as well as Rubber Ball, Erotica and Torture Garden in London. Torture Garden Clothing is available retail, mail order and wholesale.

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Saturday, March 7, 2009

An Enigmatic Angel Returns


It seems that a few people have been wondering where I disappeared to, since I haven´t been blogging often these past few months.

In the immortal words of the lovely Miss Susan who was in town recently from Toronto: ¨Where the fuck have you been???¨

Well that just about cracked me up. :)

So I thought I would write a bit about where in the wide blue yonder I went to...and my place in this wonderful kinky universe of ours, going forward.

In 2008, I decided to take a kinky sabbatical from public bdsm/fetish events.

The last event I attended was last summer´s Kinky Festival. Alas, I decided to forgo the Fetish Weekend, as I had planned and hosted a photographic road trip that weekend. Truth be told, it felt so good to be away, and I thoroughly enjoyed the leisurely drive through the wine country of the Eastern Townships. It was a great recharger.

In the Spring & Summer of 2008, I attended many, many bdsm/fetish events in town, both on a public & semi-public level. It was great fun to satisfy my curiosity about the public scene. Even though I´ve been playing in private these last 11 years or so, I only attended a few public events through-out the years. My play partner had no interest in those events, so I went on my own with a friend or two. But I always had this curiosity, to see what the public scene was all about.

Becoming a Switch also played a role in my deciding to explore the public scene.

But then one day in August 2008, I decided to bow out for awhile.

My preference has been & will always be playing in private. Although my voyeuristic side is fascinated by the full spectrum of Dominant, submissive & Switch players - and all the variations in between - I prefer to play discretely. In private. Many of the submissive candidates who have wanted to serve me just didn´t get this. I had so many offers from would-be submissives who wanted to be displayed, played with and humiliated at the various venues in town. But it´s all about what I want. Any submissive who craves the spotlight has been soon dispatched elsewhere by me.

Since August, I decided to submerge myself in the demands of vanilla life that required my attention. Things like looking for work & starting a new job. And then my PC crashed in November. The last few months, I had my hands busy with my new job & the many, many activities I organize in my vanilla life. Since August of 2008, I hosted 22 real-time events for my websites. Yes, it´s been rather busy on that front. I usually host a minimum of 2 events per month, but some months have been busier than that.

But lately, I´ve been having the urge to go back to exploring public & other bdsm/events in town.

So I´ve been slowly going back into that wonderfully kinky universe. Touching base with my FetLife friends. And also recently considering the application of a very interesting submissive candidate.

My return to kinky things was kick-started recently by a fantastically fun Kinky Girls Night Out hosted by my good friend the ever gracious & gorgeous Lady Evyl, and it consisted of a special dinner in honour of Miss Susan, who I met for the first time. Miss Susan was one of the first friends I had made when I had first joined FetLife last year. And it was delightful finally meeting her & chatting and meeting with a gang of other beautiful ladies: EmJ, Ms V, Mistress Naughty, sourriiii and August Joy. Oh it was just too much wicked fun. It made me think about how very much I have missed that. The social contact with people in the scene. Catching up with friends. Making new ones. That´s one of the best things about being connected with people in our Kinky Universe. And that was the reason I decided to branch out by going to more public events. Friendship. With fellow kinky kindred spirits. What a special and precious thing that is.

Oh and by the way? I finally have internet working again at home. Yay for that, kinky folks! So you will be hearing more from me, from the kinky front. And that is my kinky universe update.

Kinky kisses,
Angel

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