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Guy Masterleigh: Because it's more fun to do it with friends than it is alone!Fair enough. What about the rural setting? What does that offer?
Space, privacy, a chance to see the stars and enjoy grass beneath your feet. Also it means we can camp, which is much cheaper than a hotel.Tawsingham combines British Heritage with extreme kink—is this a common fetish? It doesn't sound like it is.
It's unique, I think—though there are a couple of parallels elsewhere. The closest parallel is probably the Other World Kingdom that existed in the Czech Republic for a few years; but that was binary, femdom, and very expensive. The appeal with us is to slip into a new role; whether it is to step up or down in social class, to adopt another gender, or some other role for a while.
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Absolutely. A chance to shuck off the responsibilities, duties, and inhibitions of your mundane life.
"A holiday from humanity." People's reasons vary; they're rarely the same. But there are clues in the types of animal people choose to be: "ponies" generally love to be of service, to be under control, cared-for, to show off. "Puppies" want the freedom of just being there to please their master or mistress, naked, and unashamed. "Piggies" just want to "be."Where do you find your guests?
Through kinky social media; Yahoo lists, Fet Life, and my own websites; many I've been in touch with for years, decades. The groups are small, ten to 20 or so normally, and most are regulars.Do you think the group will expand? What's a good number for an event?
It fluctuates according to the location, format of the event, price, weather, etc—there are afternoon-only pony-play events with 50 or more people, but I like to keep things cozy and go for a week, long weekend or weekend. That way we can get to know each other well. You can choose your social station, your level of freedom, your gender, even your species. Then live that life for a while.
Because there has been a long history of antipathy from a malcontent connected with the site, against both me and the landowner. Placing this story is entirely consistent with their modus operandi. They will use any means to get at us. A hater's gonna hate. We are doing nothing immoral at all. I don't want to go into detail, as that would be libelous.
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Yes. Had the vandalism not occurred the event that was in the Wales Online would have looked very different. We'd have had a static caravan there as my base; tool-sheds; a garage for our kit; a Dutch barn for our digger and materials; a barn fitted out with stables, kennels, and a pig-sty for human critters; proper showers and toilets—quite a neat facility.What do you think was the vandal's motivation? You've said it was "a drug-fueled gang-bang"?
Yes, there was a gang-bang party. I imagine the motive of the organizer was profit and/or malice. There were beer, wine, and cider bottles strewn everywhere, needles on the floor, crack-smoking works on the table… I can't know if the arson and criminal damage was premeditated or spontaneous, so I won't speculate.Do you think Tawsingham's brand attracts special interest?
Most in the fetish scene don't see the appeal, their concept of it is something that takes part in clubs of an evening; they see what we do as being too needlessly complicated. I entered the scene nearly 30 years ago, pre-internet. It was organized through magazines, mostly. The only club was in London, called Der Putsch. Through the 1990s, it was a slowly growing movement, and most of us knew each other, directly or through a friend of a friend.Then the internet came along and flooded the scene with new people. Whereas in the early years we'd share a club with goths, gays, lesbians, cross-dressers, swingers, etc just to get enough bodies to make it viable, the scene fragmented into different cliques, because the newbies often don't "get" the need for acceptance and tolerance.
They were made aware at a very early age, thanks to us having to tell a blackmailer where to go. Then our exploits appeared in a tabloid newspaper, much as with this recent story. They are now adults and never had a problem with it, because they checked for themselves and know it is all with fully informed, freely-given, and revocable consent among adults.Thanks, Guy.Follow Becky on Twitter.