Erotica 2010: One big Teese, and a bit of a flop Whether it was the cold or the recession, Erotica 2010 – the 15th year of the international sex exposition – appears to have ever so slightly wilted. It is not exactly shrivelled, but is a little smaller; not the proud, thrusting standard-bearer of the UK’s adult erotic industry it once was. A quick totting up through the …
So exactly what is wrong in fostering the young generation interest in shags, boobies, tits and other important subjects. That is a worthy cause so the RSPB should be applauded for its desire to ensure that the interest to amateur ornithology is prevalent in our young generation.
Since the serious BDSM players were replaced with more of your mainstream play toy offerings, there hasn't been anything new to spark the imagination
That said, there hasn't been anything new on the markets for quite some years. Everything is the same old same old. No new imagination in the market place.
Some of my favourite, ahem, specialist heavy duty clothing manufacturers haven't been there for a while, so it isn't worth the ticket price for me any more. It is more cost effective to travel half the country for a personal fitting and have personal viewings of the product lines.
That said ... does anyone know a dry cleaner that'll do leather strait-jackets?
The common cormorant or shag
Lays eggs inside a paper bag
The reason you will see no doubt
It is to keep the lightning out
But what these unobservant birds
Have never noticed is that herds
Of wandering bears may come with buns
And steal the bags to hold the crumbs.
(c) Christopher Isherwood
The one with the Guide to British Birds in the pocket, thanks...
The tickets are really expensive, the charges to the exhibitor are really high, so many big stars just dont appear.. and it does not help that their website **does not exist** 'out of season'.. :(
I went about 5 years ago, to find nothing really there, that you could not get in a central london store... (of course, there is no entry fee for these!!!!)
I had a good chat to Lorna Morgan, who said many were not there due to the cost... yes, there is a good 'dancing girls' show with all that fetish stuff.... but still not worth it, unless you are rich enough!!
Speaking as someone who has attended these shows since they started and exhibited leather BDSM gear at four of them, I think the expression needed is "Dead Show Walking".
Standing on the (virtually empty) gallery level and looking down it was clear to see the huge amounts of empty space between the stalls which, ten years ago, would have been filled with exhibitors, because so many of the small niche suppliers have been completely priced out of attending.
There was virtually *nothing* at the show which made you thing "Wow! That's new and different", instead it was pretty much the same old same-old and you found yourself asking what board game designers and the RSPB were doing there (at least they didn't have the "tooth whitening treatment" stalls of a couple of years ago!)
The Erotica show is a shambling mockery of what it was, caused mostly by the greed of the organisers who are more interested in making as much money out of it as they can rather than making it a showcase for the best of the UK Adult Industry.
Do you not think the problem is that the show no longer really has a target audience? It is too mainstream for the connoisseurs, too "dirty" for wholesome family types and too lame for pornhunters.
Which group(ss) do you really think will want to go to something like this? Especially as it is in London which is, frankly, a shit place to have to travel to and even worse to try to leave.
I went to one of these once, mostly because 'er indoors wanted to see what all the fuss was about. We both came away (way hey!) feeling a bit dirty, and not because of the items on display, but more because of the way sex is comodified at these type of events. One of the oddest things was a chance to sit on a couch, on stage with a pornstar to have a chat and your photo taken. What the hell would you talk about?!
We decided it was an experience, but not one we'd care to repeat.
the prudish English still have problems showing off, to say nothing about the laws about it!... go to Belgium, Netherlands, etc, you will find a much better class of sex fair... :)
search for "Erotica Sex 2010" in Europe - all cameras allowed (not in the UK one!) and you also get many models, mostly naked!! So save your ticket money, spend it on a flight instead!! :)
You've got a good point, eg the recent Venus and eroFame shows in Berlin were extremely well attended and there was none of the nonsense from this country of Westminster Council demanding that the show pay £20,000 for a "sex establishment licence" for three days, nor was there a doubling of the stall fees for anyone displaying phallic shaped vibrators.
Obviously those depraved Europeans are beyond redemption anyway, whereas we Brits can still be protected from the "tide of perversion" threatening to swamp our green and pleasant land...!
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