As of April 2008 we are on our ninth issue. The text on this page will be brought fully up to date very shortly.
TheFetishistas.com is the world's first comprehensive fetish magazine on the web. Produced by a dedicated team headed by ex-Skin Two Editor Tony Mitchell, it arrives at a time when global interest in fetish and fetish-related subjects is at an all time high. In fact this situation has begun to overwhelm the ability of traditional fetish publications to do it justice.
In the last 20 years fetish iconography has become a staple of advertising, TV and cinema and music promos, and a recurring source of inspiration for mainstream fashion, while the fetish economy barely rose above cottage industry level. Since the new millennium another revolution is in progress. The internet spreads images and ideas without waiting for mainstream permission or approval, and virtual communities have arisen in which minorities with strange shared tastes can easily find one another, rather than pine away in lonely obscurity. Fetish models have reached iconic status among a world community of fetish fans while still remaining comparatively little known in the conventional fashion and 'glamour' arenas.
A new generation views fetish style in a largely positive light, judging the overtly sexual side of fetishism and its practices as a matter of taste rather than morality.
The Fetishistas team of contributors will bring you, in free and regularly updated editions, an unprecedented variety of top quality content designed to inform, entertain and stimulate. Easily accessible sections will present news, gossip, events listings and reports, interviews, profiles, regular and guest columns, fashion galleries, photography and art portfolios, and coverage of web issues. In other regular pages we will celebrate the personal fetish style of individual clubbers around the world, showcase creative kinksters of every kind from artists to models and from designers to dominas, and review all the latest books, films, DVDs and other pervy products.
What you won't find at The Fetishistas is porn or any kind of 'explicit' or hardcore imagery. There are already paysites to cater to every fetish obsession from the ravishingly tasteful to the revoltingly tasteless, and we certainly do not seek to emulate them. But since our webzine deals with fetish and BDSM subject matter, it is an 18+ destination, which also means, sadly, that we cannot friend anyone under 18 here.
To everyone else, we say, visit TheFetishistas.com to get your regular fetish fix - and see for yourselves why people are calling us the future of fetish publishing.
BANNER EXCHANGE: The Fetishistas links page is now live, so if you have a fetish or BDSM orientated website or business, we invite you to exchange banners with us — our banners can also be found on our links page.
This page was created by Cate Fetishista. If you want to contact Tony Mitchell personally, his MySpace page is here .
