Quälgeist Berlin

The pleasures of pain and control are celebrated in the extreme at this collective-run, non-commercial membership club, with cages, slings, St Andrew's Crosses and myriad other bondage and pain devices kindly provided to suit all BDSM tastes. Like one big (and imaginatively designed) playroom. Fetishes veer from leather, rubber and uniform to socks, athletic wear, lycra and superhero reinvention. Check website for messy and accommodating schedule of events, most of which are men-only, from combat to erotic hypnosis. There's even a smoking area. 'Quälgeist' translates as something like 'tormented spirit/tortured soul'. In March 2018 Quälgeist moved from Mehringdamm 51 in Kreuzberg much further south to this location in Mariendorf, just below Tempelhof. U-Bahn: Alt-Mariendorf (last stop on the U6, then a 15-minute walk or a direct bus ride).