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March Pedestal – final night at the Colosseum

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From Club Pedestal:

“Pedestal’s next event will be Friday 28th March from 10pm to 5am at Club Colosseum. 

Sadly this is our last party at Club Colosseum due to the venue closing down, so please help us celebrate our 6 fantastic years there!!! Its been our longest and happiest stretch at any venue, so lets make sure we leave with a bang before moving to a new night club.

Live Acts: A shiny, sensual, sexy first timer to our Midnight stage- The outrageous and unique Ruby Wednesday will be joining us with a performance that will intrigue, titillate, excite, and shock…blurring the lines and stirring the senses. The fabulous Aurora Galore will grace us with her twisted flaming mysticism, inspiring dance moves, and a self-pleasing relationship with a flame that only a Woman could dominate. Last, but not least, Beatrix Carlotta will tell a touching and taunting love story with her TOY, about that first experience. Join her and her play thing for drama, passion, and dark arousal with their latest performance ‘Virgin’.

For a flavour of the event and more details, please check out our web site :

http://www.clubpedestal.com/gallery.html

The VOX bar will be available for pre-club drinks from 8pm to 10pm. No dress code in the VOX, although its just Pedestal guests, so light play is possible. The VOX bar is right next door to the Colosseum.

Also upcoming for November, Pedestals regular attractions:

• Large team of House Slaves to serve and pamper female guests.
• Massive play space featuring over 15 pieces of fabulous kit.
• Guided tour for new people leaving fetlife corner, 10:30pm.
• DJs Acid Jo & Jamie Moon playing the suitably eclectic mix.
• Fetlife corner for meeting online fetish friends, staffed 10pm to 12pm.
• The Goddess room for a stricter environment.
• Free Tantric Massage for women in the Goddess Room.
• Best Dressed Man competition after the Cabaret.
• Select-A-slave in the goddess room at 11pm.
• Luxury Canapés
• ‘Maitre D’ service for women.

If you’d like to see the facebook page or say you’re going on Facebook, check here :

    https://www.facebook.com/events/448100625333457/

You can also see/RSVP on Fetlife here :

    https://fetlife.com/events/235223

Tickets for Pedestal available online from Joanna Lark’s store :

    http://www.joannalark.com/store/categories/Tickets/Club-Pedestal/

Club Pedestal will be open from 10pm to 5am. The Colosseum is conveniently close to Vauxhall tube and national rail stations in London (5 minute walk) :

Club Colosseum, 
Market Towers,
1 Nine Elms Lane,
Vauxhall,
London SW8 5NQ.

There is a free car park next to the club, the entrance is just past the Colosseum entrance.

Tickets will be available on the door, and can be purchased in advance from the following stores:

Joanna Lark online : http://www.joannalark.com/store/categories/Tickets/Club-Pedestal/
Honour, 86 Lower Marsh, Waterloo, London. SE1 7AB.
Regulation, 17A St Albans Place Islington London N1.
Liberation, 49 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9HE.

Singles £18 in advance, £20 on the door.
Couples £30 in advance, £35 on the door 

Please visit the Pedestal web site for more details – http://www.clubpedestal.com“

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Yva Richard Vintage Kink

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From Spanking Art:

“Yva Richard was one of the main purveyors of fetish attire and other BDSM products in France from the 1920s to the early ’40s. The company, based in Paris, was formed by L. Richard and his wife Nativa, who was a seamstress. They began in 1914 selling costumes, women’s hats, shoes, and high-class lingerie.

In 1923, their range of products started to include in-house produced photography, ranging from erotic lingerie poses to increasingly risque and imaginative fetish outfits. Nativa, displaying a wide streak of exhibitionism, was the principal model for over a decade. She sometimes used the names Helios and Miss Milado. Their photographs are often marked with a “Y.R.” in the corner and may have been taken by her husband.

They also sold erotic photos of bondage, whipping and spanking from well-known photographers such as H. Manuel and Ostra Studio (a division of Biederer Studio).
Their main sales outlet was via a mail-order catalog, La Lingerie Moderne (photographed by Ostra Studio), and magazine advertisements in La Vie Parisienne, Le Sourire, and most likely London Life.

By the 1930s their catalog expanded, adding fetishistic accessories and S&M accouterments such as leather corsets, high-heeled boots, handcuffs, shackles, masks, dog collars with leashes, and bizarre dominatrix ensembles made of leather, rubber, and even metal (see photo).
However, the events of World War II brought an end to Yva Richard, along with most other purveyors of erotic art, products, and apparel throughout Europe. The company was forced to close its doors forever in 1943 during the Nazi occupation of France.”

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Freshman

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For this performer – very much a feminist – it’s the stigma, not the work itself, that harms her. Exploitation within sex work is not universal. The way the anti-sex-work agenda silences women like this by dismissing them as mindless victims is just as dehumanising as other harmful stereotypes meted out to sex workers. There are many things about porn that are problematic and need to be fixed, but stigmatising the entire industry and those within it just makes everything worse for everyone. Feminists: the false dichotomy of virgin/victim is just as bad as virgin/whore and as much a product of patriarchy. Here’s part of a wonderful article at XOJane – “I’M THE DUKE UNIVERSITY FRESHMAN PORN STAR AND FOR THE FIRST TIME I’M TELLING THE STORY IN MY WORDS”:

“…It terrifies us to even fathom that a woman could take ownership of her body. We deem to keep women in a place where they are subjected to male sexuality. We seek to rob them of their choice and of their autonomy. We want to oppress them and keep them dependent on the patriarchy. A woman who transgresses the norm and takes ownership of her body — because that’s exactly what porn is, no matter how rough the sex is — ostensibly poses a threat to the deeply ingrained gender norms that polarize our society.

I am well aware: The threat I pose to the patriarchy is enormous. That a woman could be intelligent, educated and CHOOSE to be a sex worker is almost unfathomable.

I find it interesting that porn (a billion-dollar industry) is consumed by millions of people — men and women (and all other equally wonderful genders) alike — yet no one is willing to consider the lives of the people behind the camera. No one wants to hear about the abuses and exploitation that take place, no one wants to hear about the violence committed every day against sex workers, no one wants to consider that we have hopes and dreams and ambitions.

No, all we are is “whores and bimbos.”

I reject this. Instead, what I ask for is simple. I, like all other sex workers, want to be treated with dignity and respect. I want equal representation under the law and within societal institutions. I want people to acknowledge our humanity. I want people to listen to our unique narratives and dialogues…”

Read the full article here.

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