Last night I managed to get my hands on the hottest ticket in town: the Captivity premiere party. Hot, that is, if your definition of a good time is watching live back-piercing and fighting your way through pig corpses strung up from the ceiling. Upon entering the dark corridors of Privilege, guests were first treated to the spectacle of a man having metal fish hooks stuck through his back while Dave Navarro, filming some entertainment segment, looked on, mock aghast (see video here). Wandering through various torture and pig-butchery themed rooms, I came across two Suicide Girls, from the indie-styled porn company, simulating sex on a table. A publicist type ill-advisedly pushed Bai Ling in front of the flashing cameras and sexing girls, where she squirmed and generally looked embarrassed. Bai Ling embarrassed to be at an event – that’s a first!

I stayed long enough to see the main event, which turned out to be more of the same: a large cage of 20 topless Suicide Girls, nipples covered with duct tape, writhing around while a man in a rubber apron whipped them from above (see video here). Fish hook man was then strung up by his hooks and spun around (see video here). Who knew skin was so durable? After the show, I asked a man who was having peacock feathers inserted into his bare back what he was doing. “I’m trying to get noticed,” he said, something of an understatement. I left when the Suicide Girls started to get a little happy with each other (see NSFW video here), and a large executive type got a little too into the bondage role-play (see video here). And then I went home and showered all the dirty nonsense off me.

– Photos, text, and videos by Steven Corfe (and thanks to Beau Genot for the ticket / mildly scarring experience)