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Star Girls at Devil's Playground Burlesque ( Tim Hunter Photography) The next event, an Independence Weekend blow-out, is this Thursday. In fact, it’s the self-proclaimed “biggest quarterly fetish event in America.” And the hodge podge of promoters (the Evil Club Empire, Bar Sinister, Bat Cave and Noize Factory-see more on these below) means that all are welcome, from freaks and furries, to steampunks and burners, to doms and subs, to voyeurs and vamps. Here are the best bondagey bashes, fetishy fetes and alt-sexy shindigs going down in Los Angeles right now.įor 11 years and counting, The Bondage Ball has been satisfying the latex-loving, whip-wielding masses with its mega-mashup of L.A.
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