A glimpse into the theatrical subculture of Tokyo's underbelly.

With their excessiveness and eccentricity, fetish hostess bars and clubs function as a security valve that releases some pressure out of an otherwise very conservative society.

Androniki Christodoulou spent more than half a year photographing fetish hostess bars and clubs around the Shibuya district. Documenting the world of rubber aficionados, dominatrixes trying their whips on pleasure-seeking backs and bottoms, ladies in tight corsets, slaves tightly bondaged by their companions, drag-queens, goths and cosplayers, along with sex industry people and artists.

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