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Collectors Edition DVD of the British cult fetish film "Preaching To The Perverted". Click to buy"British fetish feature film"

Preaching To The Perverted is a British cult movie about the sexual underground and civil liberties, directed by Stuart Urban and released in 1997. The main thrust of the plot involves a Conservative MP, played by Tom Bell, taking out a private members bill and sending a young Christian computer technician (Christien Anholt) undercover to infiltrate the sadomasochism and fetish and scene. His mission is to bring back evidence that people such as Dominatrix Tanya Cheex (Guinevere Turner) are offending public morals and breaking the law with regards actual bodily harm.

"London's fetish club scene"

Most of the featured extras in this independent film were from London's fetish club scene. Jed Phoenix knew one of the fetish casting directors, Tutu, from performances she had done and clubs she had worked at, and Jed was auditioned for a part as a 'slave'. What followed was nineteen days on set at Preaching To The Perverted for Jed Phoenix and a host of memories and stories to tell.

"Sexual underground"

Jed Phoenix tied to an altar with candle in mouth in the British cult fetish movie "Preaching To The Perverted"During the mid to late 1990s, Jed Phoenix was a model and performer on the Jed Phoenix tied to an altar with candle in mouth in the British cult fetish movie "Preaching To The Perverted"London fetish and alternative club scene. She remembers being on set, the day after modelling for Velda Lauder and SAM Sylvan at Club Submission at Bagleys Warehouse, London. Stuart Urban, the director of Preaching To The Perverted asked if anyone wanted to lie down for the day. Jed was the first to respond. She spent the day happily tied to an altar, with a candle in her mouth from which Dominatrix Tanya Cheex lit a cigarette.

"Bow B4 Me limo"

Towards the end of the shooting of Preaching To The Perverted, Jed had a night out at Torture Garden with friends SAM Sylvan and Lucifire. A few hours later, she was on set and was invited to go for a drive with the two leading ladies, Julie Graham (Eugenie) and Guinevere Turner (Dominatrix Tanya Cheex). The three of them got into the back of the black limo with "Bow B4 Me" number plates and drove around the Woolwich area of London in search of an open supermarket to buy supplies for an end of shoot celebration. The reactions of the onlookers were much the same as those in the supermarket scene in Preaching To The Perverted.

"Sadomasochism and civil liberties"

Jed Phoenix photographed on set of "Preaching To The Perverted", outside the law court, below Filth Not Faith placard

Although this fetish cult movie is essentially a comedy, there is a serious underlying message about the British government's attempts to restrict and criminalise the safe, sane and consensual practices of sadomasochism and other BDSM play. Preaching To The Perverted was written mainly in response to the Spanner case of the early 1990s. With the recently passed Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008, which makes it illegal to possess "extreme pornographic images", Preaching To The Perverted is a cult classic with a timeless storyline of 'deviants' versus the 'establishment'.

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