Fetishes

Filmed at Pandora's Box, the luxurious S&M parlor in New York, "Fetishes" reveals the full range of fetishes, from rubber and infantilism, to asphyxiation and mummification. Several fetishes take on a bizarre sociopolitical twist: Jewish clients into Nazi fantasies, black clients into plantation slave scenarios, a white policeman submitting to a black master. As one client remarked, "Fetishes are the eroticization of the worst thing you can ever imagine happening to you." Clients pay upwards of $10,000 a night to submit to a mistress who creates highly elaborate role-playing scenarios designed to meet her client's specific fetishistic needs. Doctors and nurses, naked wrestling to bullwhipping, are played out in diverse theme rooms, like the Louis XV "Versailles Palace," to the Medical Room with operating table and surgical tools. Of course even a parlor as unusual as this one would not be complete without the customary medieval torture chamber with racks, cages and guillotines.