If looking at the grainy movie frame above brings a smile to your lips for its quaint hairstyles and imagery, think again. That still is from the 1975 movie Histoire d’O… which is the updated version of the original story, first published way back in 1954! In fact, it was that very novel that sparked the discourse about erotic domination, making it somewhat acceptable to harbor kinky fantasies – at least among the bourgeois. For all its dreadful prose, without Story of O, BDSM as we know it would never have appeared, much less public parties.

That’s why Sadistique, the greatest BDSM party of them all, chose Histoire d’O as the theme for the December edition, scheduled in Milan from 3 to 8PM next Sunday the first. If you want to help us create a great atmosphere, you can just follow the regular dress code… or go the chateau du Roissy way, taking inspiration from the costumes worn in movie(s), the numerous comics… or in the gallery we set up for you here. See you at Sadistique!