When I arrived at Rub around midnight the club was very busy, full of vibrantly animated people.
This was my first time at Dukes so once I’d adorned myself with the contents of my ruck sack, I blended in with the crowd and went for a walk about. The venue has a predominately bar feel about it which is ideal as there’s lots of places to sit and chat and later on when everyone’s loosened up a bit, for exhibitionists to exhibit, away from the main dance area. This party was a Birthday celebration with a 50’s theme. In the first bar DJ El Nino played Rockabilly and Rock n Roll. It was comfortably crowded in here all night, ideal for all manner of many minglings and meetings.

Downstairs there were three more rooms all equally busy and buzzing. The middle room was the dance floor which spilled out into another large comfortable bar area. The music was mostly funky and accessible House, a good beat but not too hard, which kept the room full all night.

In a separate room on the other side of the dance floor was a play area. Rub isn’t one of the hard core
SM fetish clubs, which makes it the perfect introduction to fetish, and a great first time party.

So appropriately the play area was fairly low key, but the whipping post, wrist chains and examination
benches were occupied and observed all night by aconstant flow of Doms, Subs and Voyeurs. There was one particular couple who exhibited their more extreme fantasies involving intricate rope bondage, piercing and fisting, it was beautiful to watch and by far the most hard core fetish play I saw that evening.

The thing that struck me most about the night was the incredibly wide range of people there. A complete mix of ages, nationalities, shapes, sizes and looks. Some people were beautifully and flamboyantly dressed, others were borderline costume and looked like they just stripped down to their old pair of vaguely shiny underpants!

But all were having a wicked time no matter what, and there was no air of posing or pretence. During the two years I've been away it looks to me as if the fetish scene has reached a much wider audience. Most of the I spoke to were first timers, there were a few familiar regular faces and a few obviously harder players, but generally the vibe was about the music, dressing up and socialising in a sexy environment with the freedomto play if you wished.

One person I spoke to described it as an adult fancy dress party. Another person commented they don’t want the club to become anymore popular then it already is. But I think its got to be a good thing for some fetish clubs to be more main stream and encourage a wider range of people to explore their sexuality and be open and confident about it. People just need to find the clubs they feel most comfortable and satisfied in. Even though this Rub party reached such a wide rage of audience the atmosphere was still one of respect andopen mindedness. I was unaware of anyone being a nuisance or acting inappropriately.
This is a wonderful thing about fetish clubs in general, people are always very polite, unless of course you want to be treated like a dirty little bitch!
I had an excellent night and met some great people, and going by the vibe everyone else there did too.

Sarah
Dancing Décor

Photos – Jan
fetishclubpix@dial.pipex.com

Club Rub info: http://www.club-rub.com