John Willie, Irving Klaw, Eric Stanton, … names that conjure up a warm, fuzzy feeling of vintage erotica. These are some of the people who braved the mainstream media and sought to cater for the more distinguished erotic tastes.

Nowadays we are used to the idea of bondage magazines, even if we still see them only too rarely outside specialist agents, but back in the forties one man made his vision come true with the publication of ‘Bizarre’, a small format magazine dealing with bondage, fetish and out of the ordinary fashion.

Bizarre ran its course and had its highs and lows, and this author is very happy to have stumbled upon it in his youth, and changed his perception of what can and cannot be published.

It is to this end that this website has been created - to create a new space for fiction, articles, drawings and photos of distinguished tastes. We can never recreate the cult publication by John Willie, but we can continue its spirit in the digital world.

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