Torture Garden (fetish club)

Performer of the club at Olympia Exhibition (2007)

Torture Garden (abbreviated as TG) is a fetish club in London, England. The club started in 1990 and is now Europe's largest fetish club. It features dance floors, musical acts, performance art, fashion shows, and a BDSM dungeon.

Initially threatened with closure by the police,[1] it is now described as "legendary" and "a capital institution" by Time Out magazine.[2] It has also been described as "a combination of a fetish, S/M, body art, Modern Primitives, straight, gay, performance art, body ritual, fashion, techno/industrial/atmospheric music, multimedia, and cyberspace club".[3]

  1. ^ Sharkey, Alix (17 February 1996). "Flexible friends". The Independent. Retrieved 12 March 2009.
  2. ^ Woolgar, Andy (10 November 2006). "Torture Garden". Time Out. Archived from the original on 11 October 2012. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  3. ^ Perlmutter, Dawn (Fall 1999 – Winter 2000). "The Sacrificial Aesthetic: Blood Rituals from Art to Murder". Anthropoetics. 5 (2). ISSN 1083-7264. Retrieved 12 March 2009.