About me: Check my blog above to find out what’s in the latest edition of The Fetishistas!
I’ve been involved in high-end fetish publishing for 25 years now, going back to the opening of the original Skin Two Club in London in January 1983.
Today, I’m publisher and editor of online fetish magazine The Fetishistas, which I launched in February 2007 after leaving the editorship of Skin Two magazine.
Until 2006 I was editor (and a director) of Skin Two, widely regarded as the world’s most stylish and authoritative fetish magazine. I was for many years also a director of Skin Two’s fetish clothing and retail businesses, and provided regular creative input for its big annual London event, the Rubber Ball Weekend.
My association with the Skin Two phenomenon predates Skin Two magazine. It began when, as a senior journalist on the London music weekly Sounds, I became part of a small group of media, music, art and fashion people who helped launch the original ‘rubber club’ that bore the name, in Soho in 1983. I began contributing to the magazine after its first issue in 1984, and watched a movement that started as a darker spin-off from the New Romantic scene develop over the next ten years into a fully-fledged international subculture with its own clubs, clothing labels, shops, artists, models, photographers and magazines.
Skin Two was right at the heart of this cultural explosion, so I was perfectly placed to document, influence and participate in it. I gave up music journalism entirely in the early 1990s to become a full-time ‘professional perv’, and up to my departure earlier in 2006, led the small editorial team that successfully maintained the magazine’s reputation as the best in its field.
As well as producing magazines and newspapers and contributing to various books, I’ve edited two best-selling coffee-table fetish photo anthologies, ‘Fetish’ and ‘Sex: Take A Walk On The Wild Side’, for Carlton Books/Thunder’s Mouth Press. Further books are in the pipeline.
I remain as enthusiastic as ever about everything that goes on in the global fetish community, and in particular, I still get enormous pleasure from the discovery of fresh fetish talent and the promotion of the best of the scene’s creative endeavours. The Fetishistas is designed to combine the high quality journalism and photography of pervy print mags with the web’s immediacy, accessibility, and breadth of content, and my aim, as its publisher and editor, is simply this: to offer unrivalled, free coverage of the international fetish scene to all.
The Fetishistas also has a separate ‘corporate’ MySpace page to keep you up to date with the webzine’s activities — see my Top Friends list below.
Who I'd like to meet: My webzine The Fetishistas has been created as a wide-reaching showcase for fetish ideas, fetish talent and fetish endeavour of every kind (including such fetish-related interests as burlesque, retro pin-up and gothic). So if you are doing anything pervy that’s of good quality — something creative, entertaining or otherwise of genuine value to the fetish community, from modelling to clothes-designing, from photography to event promotion, from running a bondage website to making dungeon equipment — you are of potential interest to me.
The ’zine is also very interested in individuals who add colour to the scene without any formal involvement — to the extent that we are devoting a whole section of the site to all those stylish and photogenic ‘real people’ in fetish club land and beyond.
I am however relatively strict in my friending policy so if you would like to friend me, please take a moment to read the following…
This MySpace site is primarily for fetish networking. The majority of my MySpace friends are known personally to me, and many more are known to me through their work. If you want to friend me but you are not known to me, then your profile info, pictures and/or friends ought to provide some evidence of a genuine interest and/or involvement in fetish or related stuff. If I don’t see such evidence, then I am unlikely to add you. At the moment I am not adding bands here unless I have a personal connection to them, but we do friend fetish-friendly music at our ‘corporate’ MySpace page www.myspace.com/TheFetishistas.
Finally, if you’re also on Model Mayhem, you’ll find me there too, at ‘The Fetishistas’.
So sincerely sorry for (y)our loss Tony.. I know V meant alot to you, and it's nice to see that pic again. I don't have any with her myself! (Typical photographer's problem, huh?)
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