Atomique Fetish Archive: A Contemporary Fetish Encyclopedia

Every September, San Francisco’s South of Market district becomes the setting for one of the most recognizable gatherings in global leather and fetish culture. Folsom Street fills with leather, rubber, uniforms, harnesses, puppies, BDSM communities, artists, performers, independent designers, activists, and visitors from around the world, temporarily transforming the streets of SoMa into an extraordinary public expression of identities that historically developed behind the d

The 1970s transformed fetish culture from a network organized largely through images, private encounters, specialist publications, and relatively discreet social circles into something increasingly visible as a community. The sexual revolution of the previous decade had challenged conventional ideas about the body and desire, while gay liberation created a new political language around visibility, identity, and sexual autonomy. During the 1970s, these changes began acquiring

Every September, several streets in Berlin-Schöneberg become the meeting point for one of the largest gatherings of leather and fetish culture in the world. Leather, rubber, uniforms, sportswear, puppy gear, harnesses and countless other expressions of fetish identity move out of clubs and private spaces and into the city itself as Folsom Europe transforms the neighbourhood around Fuggerstraße and Welserstraße into an international street fair. The scale is remarkable. Folsom