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13 Mar 11 Fem sub Club and a very busy weekend

mia has already blogged about our weekend: we drove down for the first @fem_sub_club on Friday evening, then worked our way back, taking in @Bridgewood, the @Manchester_Munch and Club Lash. [more...]

3 Mar 11 The Slave Market in Constantinople

Long before Constantinople became Istanbul, the "Avret (or Aurut) Bazaar" was the female slave market, which is the "Women's Market" in Turkish. It appears to have been within sight of the Nuruosmaniye Mosque, and is a real, identifiable place in modern day Istanbul. I've used some of my collection of slave market images to piece together some details about it, along with some of my own photos taken a couple of years ago when I had a chance to explore the area and written a page with the results [more...]

24 Feb 11 O&P Open meeting and Chatroom evening

Last weekend's O&P Open in Manchester went very well - thanks to the people who came and contributed to the topics

There were some posts after the event on the announcement thread and on Dragonfyre's summary of the topics. [more...]

12 Feb 11 Going to see "Destiny" by Waterhouse

mia uses a detail from this painting on her IC profile and various other sites. The original is in Towneley Hall in Burnley, and we went to see it today. [more...]

5 Feb 11 Tamer Yilmaz Turkish bath shoot with Tugce Kazaz

I've come across a shoot that Tamer Yilmaz did last year with famous Turkish model Tugce Kazaz. Some is on his portfolio, but there's more on this Russian site (and Google turns up a lot more.) Some are pretty direct references to Gerome's 19th century paintings and his contemporaries.

4 Feb 11 O&P Open, Manchester, Sat 19th Feb 2011

There will be another O&P Open in Manchester on the afternoon of Saturday 19th February 2011. The event will be from 1pm to 5pm, with social time followed by a round table discussion from 2pm. The venue is the downstairs room of the Taurus Bar, 1 Canal Street, Manchester, M1 3HE (the northeast / Piccadilly end of Canal Street.) [more...]

3 Feb 11 The Slave Register on FetLife

Over the last three weeks I've been doing some updates and extensions to the The Slave Register. As part of this, there's a new The Slave Register group on FetLife which has gone past 200 members already. [more...]

28 Jan 11 Podcast: Tattoos etc in BDSM; The Slave Register

A discussion with mia about tattoos, piercings, violet wand brands, and BDSM; The Slave Register and public declarations in O&P, in this fifth episode of the House of Tanos Podcast. [more...]

14 Jan 11 Podcast: Collars in BDSM + O&P, KinkPodcasts.com

A discussion of collars in BDSM and in Ownership & Possession relationships, a new website KinkPodcasts.com that lists episodes of podcasts as they appear, and a round up of some events in Manchester, in this the first House of Tanos Podcast episode of 2011. [more...]

13 Jan 11 The Dungeon Archipelago

sardax started a thread on Informed Consent today asking about dungeons for hire. The title he used was "The Dungeon Archipelago" and it reminded me of a way of imagining all the underground BDSM places that I came up with a while ago. [more...]

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