Fetish club

{{Short description|Adult-only sex club}}

File:La Fistinière.jpg, a fetish club in Assigny, France]]

A fetish club is a nightclub, bar, social club or other entertainment hub which caters to clientele interested in some of (but not necessarily all) fetish fashion, bondage, dominance/submission, and/or sadism and masochism (BDSM). Some clubs have active "play" going on inside the club while others are a socialising place for like-minded people.

Fetish Community events take place at specialty fare hosted at other public venues and night clubs.

Activities at fetish clubs have been interpreted as "neo-burlesque, freak show, queer and body mutation styles".{{cite book | chapter=Bad Girls and Dirty Bodies: Performative Histories and Transformative Styles | first=Gemma Ruth | last=Commane | pages=49–64 | title=Queering Paradigms | editor=Burkhard Scherer | publisher=Peter Lang | year=2009 | isbn=978-3-03911-970-7 }} The fetish club as carnival represents a rejection of "official" world views.{{cite book | title=Consumer tribes | first1=Bernard | last1=Cova | first2=Robert V. | last2=Kozinets | first3=Robert | last3=Kozinets | first4=Avi | last4=Shankar | publisher=Butterworth-Heinemann | year=2007 | isbn=978-0-7506-8024-0 |pages=247–249}}