The club started in and is now Europe's largest fetish club. Initially threatened with closure by the police, [1] it is now described as "legendary" and "a capital institution" by Time Out magazine. The co-founder of TG described the experience as "like entering a scene from a movie", and said that "we are basically about the celebration of sexuality and fantasy in a safe environment".
An academic study of blood rituals noted that "The concept of Torture Garden may initially be difficult to accept, as it encompasses the most extreme manifestations of body piercing, mutilation, and ritual uses of blood in Western culture" and that the Torture Garden manifesto "clearly demonstrates the anomalous nature of fetish clubs". TG has hosted club nights in several other cities and countries, including Edinburgh [6] Russia, Greece and Japan, and it also runs a Fetish fashion label.
Rubber Banned, an exhibit of photographs of TG club-goers taken by fashion photographer Perou was shown in London and Paris in From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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