{"id":255,"date":"2008-05-01T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theenglishmansion.com\/#6"},"modified":"2024-05-23T22:27:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T21:27:07","slug":"the-torture-garden-comes-of-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theenglishmansion.com\/blog\/the-torture-garden-comes-of-age\/","title":{"rendered":"The Torture Garden grows &#038; grows!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theenglishmansion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/tg-blog-com-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6363\" title=\"tg-blog-com-sm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theenglishmansion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/tg-blog-com-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theenglishmansion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/tg-blog-com-sm.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.theenglishmansion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/tg-blog-com-sm-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Torture Garden first opened its doors back in 1990 in Shepherds Bush, London and this year celebrates 18 years of fetish clubbing. In the 80&#8217;s and early 90&#8217;s Fetish &amp; SM was still taboo and very underground, and even dressing in Rubber and going to a fetish club seemed a dangerous activity. As TG&#8217;s notoriety grew, so did the `shock &amp; scandal&#8217; reports in the tabloids, resulting in the Police frequently forcing venues to close events in 1991 &#8211; 1993, and the shadow of the Spanner Case also hung over the scene during the early 90&#8217;s. The first event caused quite a stir \u2013 there had never really been any club like it. Many have described their first experience of entering a TG event as like stepping into another world. Like a scene from a film, a fantasy, it can be anything that you want it to be.<\/p>\n<p>You will often see Mansion Mistresses at TG events and this year will be no exception!<br \/>\nYou can visit the TG website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torturegarden.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nFor a flavour of the TG experience, check out this clip on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cLwdhWoVA7k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<input class=\"fooboxshare_post_id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"255\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Torture Garden first opened its doors back in 1990 in Shepherds Bush, London and this year celebrates 18 years of fetish clubbing. 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