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Great Fetish and BDSM blogs for beginners

If you are new to the fetish scene or have recently been exploring your fetish and bdsm fantasies you will be able to find some great websites and blogs on-line, which can help you explore the fetish world and community.

Here are some of our favourite blogs which give information, videos, tutorials, advice and tips for those of us who have left their vanilla life behind to go beyond the kink!

A Submissive’s Initiative:

“The goal of A Submissive’s Initiative is to make BDSM approachable, understandable and fun through practical daily advice, accessible educational resources and a warm, family-style atmosphere.”

A blog which was started in 2012, A Submissive’s Initiative is an on-line resource, containing fun and educational information and articles for those who are BDSM curious.

We personally enjoyed photo articles such as their rope bondage tutorials and the blog collections such as BDSM for Beginners and BDSM basics.

http://asibdsm.com/

The Kink Academy

“Whether you’re single or a new couple looking to set the foundation for a life-time of hot kinky experiences or you’ve been together for a long time and want to find new activities and inspirations.”

The Kink Academy is a website, which hosts an on-line video tutorial library, webinairs and articles, to guide you through sex, kink and bdsm. The videos are straight forward, up front and educational. There are also a wide range of exotic interests and edge play video’s so everyone can find information on all area’s that interest them.

http://www.kinkacademy.com/home/getting-started-guide/

The Submissive Guide

“Mentoring, self help and submissive exploration”

The Submissive Guide was set up to provide practical advice, self taught training and information for submissives and those interested in learning more about BDSM. The Submissive guide contains articles, links to other blogs, videos and reviews. 

http://www.submissiveguide.com/

The Dominant Guide

“Dominant Guide hopes to help the many Dominants out there get the same sort of advice, useful knowledge and community. We want to help you find your voice, learn your skills and get in touch with your dominant mind so that you can be the best dominant you can be.”

Inspired by the success of the Submissive Guide, The Dominant Guide website was set up to provide a similar resource of information for Dominants. Dominant Guide is all about helping you to: Learn about BDSM and D/s relationships, gain knowledge in your favorite play  activities, share advice and knowledge with other dominants, work through the struggles and difficulty that comes with being dominant and connect with your inner voice to touch your dominant mindset

http://dominantguide.com/

When we’re not busy working and playing in the Dungeon, all of us here at The Serpent Rooms, enjoy going out and meeting other like minded Kinksters on the London Fetish Scene.

London fetish social event’s such as Munches, are a great way to introduce you to the scene and fetish community, meet like mined people, make new friends and explore new relationship and interactions.

Here are a few great fetish social event’s we think are well worth going too;, London Fetish Munches and Gatherings.

The Putney Munch

If you live in South or South West London there is a great regular Munch meet up on the first Thursday of every month at the Bricklayers Arms in Putney.

The Munch is held at a regular pub, and is very much a casual, non play, social event to meet like minded friends. As the Munch does not have exclusive use of the bar, the organisers ask that you dress appropriately, and leave the latex and fetish gear at home for the night!

Those who attend the Putney Munch are a very welcoming group and this is definitely a great event to attend.

http://www.putneymunch.org.uk/welcome.html 

https://twitter.com/putneymunch

The Docklands Munch

The Docklands Munch is held every second Monday of the month at The Ledger Building, West India Quay in South East London.

The Docklands Munch has been running for over 9 years, and is a regular meeting place for Kinksters based around South East London and other parts of London too!

The Docklands Munch is non play, informal event to bring the fetish community together. The group meet in a pub and have a booked room, where the Munch is held.

After running for 9 years, the Docklands Munch has built up a great community of friends and is a wonderful way to meet others, ask questions and get information about the fetish scene in London.

http://www.docklandsmunch.co.uk/info.htm

https://twitter.com/DocklandsMunch

Fetish Week – London

Fetish week London, is the biggest Gay Fetish Week in the UK. Running from the 8th to the 14th of July, a whole host of different events are hosted in Venues in central London.

Fetish Week event’s include social pub meet ups, workshops and club events. This week is a great introduction to the London Gay Fetish scene and there is definitely plenty of fun and opportunities for play.

http://www.fetishweek.com

The Camden Crunch

The Camden Crunch meet on the third Friday of every Month at Lock17

The CRUNCH’s raison d’etre is to be a flippin good night out. It is completely not for profit, and exists for the good of the kink/fetish/alternative community. In 2010 the CRUNCH founders had an idea for event that was basically what they wanted from a good Friday night out.

The Camden Crunch, is not a Fetish Club, or a Munch, but something a little bit in between. Hence the name “Crunch”. It is both a social experience and a party.

http://www.camdencrunch.org/

https://twitter.com/CamdenCrunch

London

Mistress Hera 

The Mistress Review

The Serpent Rooms our lucky to have some very kinky & strict Mistresses who regularly use our Dungeon. Name: Mistress Hera Location: North East London Strikingly beautiful, North East London Mistress Hera will tower elegantly over you. She brings a creative imagination to her sessions and her enjoyment in humiliating men will quickly become apparent. From Eastern Europe, Mistress Hera, is also very strong and assertive. As a professional wrestler she enjoys physical sessions, as well as torturing her slaves. You will leave feeling overwhelmed and gagging to come back for more. Website: www.mistress-hera.co.uk

We found The Serpent Rooms clean, tidy and well equipped. The people were also very friendly and helpful.

We especially liked the items which are not that common at other dungeons, such as the wrestling room and the violet wand.

It was well worth the visit.

Thank you, I will certainly be back.

Anon.

Here are some of The Serpent Room’s Top Fetish Events in May and June, for great fetish event’s to attend over the next couple of months in London, but also featuring an excuse for a dirty weekend away in Brighton, at the Brighton Fetish Weekend at the end of June.

Club Pedestal

Pacha London

Thursday May 29th

www.clubpedestal.com/

Pedestal nights primarily provide for the entertainment and enjoyment of women, although no doubt our male guest will be glad they came! The layout of the club is large, spread across multiple rooms, with varying themes including a very popular playroom!

HARD ON

Union in Vauxhall London

17th of May and the 21st of June 2014

http://www.hardonclub.co.uk/homepage.html

HARD ON is a gay mens fetish club where people can engage in their fetishes with like minded people. HARD ON has a strict dress code of leather, rubber, skinhead, boots, sports kit, jockstraps and naked. For more details on the dress code, check out the HARD ON Website, which also includes discounts for the club and Expectations mens Festish Shop, if you become a member.

London Fetish Fair

The Renaissance Rooms , Wandsworth Rd, Vauxhall,

June the 8th 2014

http://www.londonfetishfair.co.uk/

Fetish fashion, sexy lingerie and jewellery, dungeon furniture, SM equipment, one of the finest places to spend a day out shopping and partying. What’s your fetish? Free secure parking, gastro pub style lunch. Cabarets, workshops, come to the world’s first fetish fair and find euphoria. View all the fetish shops & news of what’s coming up at the next London Fetish Fair. This site contains adult images of SM, LATEX, Domination and slave activity. Fetish for real people. Sexy people.

27th – 29th of June 2014

Brighton Fetish Weekend – Various Locations in Brighton

http://www.brightonfetishweekend.co.uk/

The first, fabulous Brighton Fetish Weekend took place in June 2013. Both local and international visitors came, saw and conquered with non-stop partying, shopping and socialising.

This summer, the fascinating city of Brighton will once again be the UK seaside destination for all things fun and fetishy. With an even fuller programme than last year, you can expect an action-packed few days.

The Serpent Room’s beginners guide to BDSM: London Workshops

If you have always been interested in BDSM and have wanted to learn more, The Serpent Rooms would recommend you attend one of London’s fantastic BDSM workshops to explore your limits and gain confidence within your own BDSM play.

These workshops offer a great platform to learn from experienced practitioners within a safe environment, with other like minded Kinksters.

Then once you have gained more confidence, you can come to the Serpent Room’s to explore your limits further, with our three rooms of toys and fetish equipment.

Here are a few of our top workshops that we think are well worth attending:

Club Rub

BDSM Workshop

http://www.club-rub.com/index.php/club-rub/master

The Marksman Pub (upstairs), 254 Hackney Road                                                                                 12th July 2014

An interactive workshop for beginners who want to explore BDSM and gain confidence from knowing that what they are doing, or allowing to be done to them, will be hitting the right spot both in a trusting and consensual way.

A plethora of subjects will be covered, with loads of interaction and discussion. There will be anecdotes and cautionary tales, plus plenty of time for questions. Wherever possible, there will be demos showing how to work with floggers, canes and maybe even the crack of a whip!

Sacred Pleasures

http://sacredpleasures.co.uk/workshops/

Next Workshop: Introduction to Shibari (Japanese rope bondage)

Camden, London

Saturday 17th May

Sacred pleasure’s workshops aim to give you an experiential introduction to Ecstatic BDSM. Sacred pleasure’s host 4 levels of workshops from first level workshops which are clothes-on events with relatively low levels of participation, where you are led  into the treasure chest of our core interests: creative relating, Ecstatic BDSM, finding your deep true desire and shadow work.

Through to Level Four which are the most advanced they offer: intensives, retreats and ongoing groups. Here bringing everything together, leaving no stone unturned on the journey to empowerment and profound self-knowledge.

Sh! Store

http://www.sh-womenstore.com/Erotic+Classes/Spanking_Class_Women_Only.html

Beginners Guide to Spanking

25th of June 2014

Sh! Women’s Erotic Emporium, 57 Hoxton Square, London

SH! offer women only erotic learning classes, in this class, the  Sh! Girlz will enlighten, educate and inspire you with the bum-smackingly fun activity of safe, sane and consensual spanking. They’ll discuss the pleasures of pain, how (and where) to spank safely and sensually, the different feel and effect of floggers, crops, spankers, and hands, contrasting sensations and aftercare. For both spanker and spankee, this class will ensure you play your part confidently!

Review 16 The Serpent Rooms: Dungeon for hire in London

Not having hired a dungeon before we were really happy with the location and the equipment to hand, we had great fun trying out the toys, whips and furniture. It was great having access to a violet wand.
Will be recommending to friends and will book again.
Thanks Bella.

Name: Mistress Pip

Location: London, often can be found with a Slave between her powerful thighs at The Serpent Rooms.

Mistress Pip Says :

“ If you are genuinely interested in exploring the world of BDSM then I am the person for you. My background is in wrestling so I am strong and toned, and being in control comes naturally and easily.

I love to clamp my slaves helplessly between my powerful thighs as I torture and tease them. I will have you grovelling at my beautiful feet and worshiping whatever I demand.

I enjoy a vast range of BDSM activities from exploring your limits of pain, to tying you up, depriving you of your senses and taking your mind on a journey.”

Website: Mistress Pip

Twitter: @MistressPip

Favourite activities

Wrestling, rope bondage, kidnapping, tickling, spanking, worship, CBT, double domination, foot worship.

Comments about Mistress Pip

“In Mistress Pip’s presence normal time and belief are suspended and one enters into a blissful submissive state utterly under her spell”

“Mistress Pip is one of my favourite dommes. As soon as I’m in her presence there is a natural transference of power, and I feel completely helpless as I stare into her penetrating blue eyes”

“Mistress Pip is the best possible combination of young wrestler and dominatrix that anyone could remotely hope to find in London”

Being a relatively new thing for us, we wanted to explore bdsm/ sub/dom play a bit more and thought we needed a new environment to encourage us further and to also provide us with new things and apparatus to try.

After being let down by numerous other places who wouldnt even respond to an email(to the point we had pretty much given up) we came across The Serpent Rooms.  From first contact we were put at ease and told a 2 hour session would be a great way to explore – so we took the advice and booked just that.

Upon turning up we were given instructions to call and were met near the venue.  The venue itself is hidden away from prying eyes so no need to worry about people watching your comings and goings.

We were led into the venue and given a brief tour of the place and had a few bits and pieces explained to us.  This was extremely important as it was our first ever visit to a dungeon and there were a wild array of things to try – the intro def calmed our nerves as i could imagine being sent in alone would have been a bit overwhelming.

Once we were alone we started to explore and play – and yes being in such an environment DEF brought out a different side to our play as we used the various toys (of which there are many) to enhance and challenge our sexual behaviours.

We have a real issue with cleanliness – but The Serpent Rooms were absolutely spotless, and the equipment all well maintained.  In terms of equipment, there was a huge variety of items for us to try – and having things there that we had never seen before (let alone used) definately sparked the imagination.  Our belief is that the environment your in changes the way you play – and the environment in The Serpent Room was calm and relaxed, but left you in no doubt that this was a dungeon designed for sexual deviancy.

We learnt huge amount about ourselves and our likes from the 2 hours (which was the perfect amount of time for our first time) and definately want to return to push our boundaries further.  We have been together over 2 yrs, but can safely say our time in The Serpent Rooms has made a huge impact to our private time – and things we discovered that day we want to explore further.

As newbies to the scene, i couldnt recommend it highly enough and reading other reviews before we booked it would appear the needs of others who have been in the scene for much longer are very well catered for too.

Sam & Cat

The Serpent Rooms is based in London, a great city which has a busy and active Fetish and
BDSM community as we have decided The Serpent Rooms visits London’s best Fetish shops.  As well as London’s great  fetish clubs and social munch events, we are also surrounded by some excellent fetish shops and  we have compiled our top 5 London based fetish and sex shops that we think are well worth a visit.

1.  Expectations
Shorditch, London

Trading now for over 30 years in the Shoreditch district of London, Expectations is the
Capital’s largest and most popular store for leather and rubber mens wear gear, sex toys
and accessories. Renowned for its service standards and wide range of products, the
store also offers a unique and unrivaled made to measure service.

2.  Sh!

Hoxton Sq.London

The first ever female-­focussed sex shop in the UK ( and the first boutique ­style erotic store
too!) Sh! Women’s Erotic Emporium was established on 1st April 1992 as an antidote to
sleazy sex shops and has since trail blazed the way for the whole of the sex industry to
take a giant u-­turn in how it views women’s sexuality.

3.  Breathless

Euston, London

A great store for all lovers of latex couture and alternative fashion. This store is dedicated
to men’s and women’s latex fashion and accessories. Where you can try things on, get
honest and friendly advice, and use the fitting and made to measure services, to fine tune
your personal design.

4.  Honour

Waterloo, London

Established since 1988, Honour is now a world leading brand.  Honour has a huge range
of affordable fetish fashion, costumes,  accessories and sex toys. The shop stocks
costumes and fetish fashion in a great range of sizes going up to Size 26. So there is
definitely something for everyone.

5.  Coco de Mer

Covent Garden, London

Coco de Mer is London’s leading luxury erotic emporium. Celebrating sexual liberation
with an eccentric British heritage and renowned for quality style, beautiful products and
provocative offbeat expression. The shop has designer lingerie and fetish accessories,
bejewelled sex toys and a book range including vintage pornography and erotica.

6 .Regulation

Angel, London

Regulation has over 20 year experience in manufacturing and retailing male fetish clothing & accessories in the UK. Established in 1991, they specialise in high quality latex & leather clothing, bondage equipment, toys and first rate customer service.