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Torture Garden. Anyone, anyone?

Old brown-eye is back

11:30 / 27.05.03

I know it's short notice, but would anyone else be up for the Torture Garden 12th birthday bash this Saturday? The last meet was loads of fun, if memory serves.

www.torturegarden.com

13:52 / 27.05.03

I've been meaning to go for ages.
How strict is the dress code?

Old brown-eye is back

14:51 / 27.05.03

You can't lose with leather, latex or rubber (all latex, leather or rubber mind, not just trousers), and you'll be ok if you hardly wear anything. Other than that, the basic idea is just that people make an effort to come up with a fetishy outfit of some kind - do you own a nurses outfit?

15:08 / 27.05.03

I don't have the legs for it.

Wear glasses (lenses don't cover me for dim light situations), so can't do masks.

Spiky leather collar, wrist restraints, tight T-shirt (showing off piercing in some manner) and a pair of slacks do the job?

Old brown-eye is back

15:19 / 27.05.03

I'm inclined to think your slacks will probably have to be a bit shiny, and maybe ditch the T-shirt altogether if you can get away with it. Contact TG itself to be sure - the buggers' aren't above turning people away on the door, ticket or not.

08:04 / 30.05.03

Well, freelance job in hand... which is great for the wallet. But bad for the spending the entire weekend sweaty and reeking of coffee peering at the computer screen. So no torture garden for me!

Hope it's good!

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

09:32 / 30.05.03

I was actually planning to go, but my landlord's finally tracked me down and I can't afford it.

09:52 / 02.06.03

Did you go in the end?

Old brown-eye is back

11:14 / 02.06.03

I have to say that I didn't - ended up at the meet in The George in London Bridge instead. Has pervery slipped off the wider Barbelith agenda, is what I'm wondering.

12:03 / 02.06.03

Pervery is certainly high on my agenda I can assure you!
Just seems a bit difficult to find an outlet I guess.

Jack The Bodiless

19:17 / 02.06.03

All my mates went apart from me and mine. Apparently Marilyn Manson and Boy George were there. Arse.

19:47 / 02.06.03

And that is supposed to be a good thing?

Pervery hasn't slipped off *my* agenda, I am just too fat to go out. I dunno if the TG really appeals that much anymore though - I'm not sure that the strictness of the dress code is a useful thing, and that concern tends to war with the problem I have re. places like One Night Stand, where the sexual tourists go, and make no effort - just peer at the perves. Though I suspect a lot of that goes on at the TG also, just the tourists have to make more effort to get up to code. I dunno.
I will go at some point, I expect... but there was no way I was even going to think about it this time round.

16:31 / 06.06.03

What about sleazecore some night?

18:48 / 06.06.03

G and I will continue to wave the perv flag on the Lith, never fear. We just can't help ourselves. Which means (unless you're coming to The Hoist with us tonight for public sex and beery leering) that we will be agitating for another TG night with interested Barbefolk.

I hear what you're saying Chol but I don't mind perv tourists at all. We were all scared little bunnies dipping our toe in the water once upon a time, not quite getting it and wanting to. And the rest of them better behave themselves or I'll get my riding crop out.

Besides, I would be thrilled to bits if a (supposedly) fat Cholister wanted to promenade at TG with a (has to be said, can't shy away from it) very tubby, full fat Xoc and a Hindu lovegod with a burgeoning beer belly. What a team!

Have to warn you, I don't dance unless very, very drunk (and then it's not a pretty sight... ) Last time I was there was with Mordant C@rnival and Lurid Archive, whose incomparable gothy loveliness meant nobody noticed me. This time I will require to be worshipped!

Old brown-eye is back

20:11 / 07.06.03

Thank the lord. Agitate away...

Sleazecore?

07:24 / 09.06.03

I'm kinda the opposite, skinny as a very skinny rake, will dance and perv away at the drop of a very heavy hat. But really really really don't look the part.

I'll have to bring a mate out on a shopping expedition for some gear.

Sleazecore is TG's regular night in Electrowerkz, beside Angel tube. It's on Friday's. Info on the TG website. I've never been to it, but it does seem to have a good reputation.