Klub Verboten is London's leading contemporary fetish party brand — in its own words a provider of pro-pervert spaces, a grassroots movement that has matured since 2016 into a community of tens of thousands of kinksters, with support from Arts Council England on its record.

What separates Verboten from a club night is the seriousness of its craft. The organisation describes its work as the spatial, sonic and visual understanding of future BDSM and fetish practice, and claims the gold standard in safeguarding — it says it has trained UK police licensing teams, won international awards, and put sixty thousand people to writing and thinking about consent, boundaries and personal space. Consent culture is not a poster on the wall here; it is the product.

Events run at warehouse-scale London venues — the brand's tenth-anniversary programme runs at the Steelyard — with serious techno line-ups sharing billing with the play. A membership system governs access, and the dress code is enforced; read both on the brand's own site before buying a ticket.

Browse our London guide for the city's other fetish parties and venues, and see this page's events for upcoming Verboten dates.