This year’s event, in its 24th year, offers nine parties across five days from May 22-26. It features a full takeover of the Westin Fort Lauderdale Hotel for the key four days and five nights of the programme.

The schedule kicks off informally on Wednesday May 22 with a Fetish Social just a few hundred metres from the hotel, at Jester’s Dive Bar. It’s a free-entry, no-dresscode event though ‘provocative attire’ is welcome.

Following on Thursday 23 is the programme’s first strict dresscode party, the famous Beat & Greet at the Manor Complex’s Crystal Ballroom. Around 800 people are expected to attend for the all-night bar, dungeon equipment and pervy performers until 3am, followed by an After Party at The Westin.

The strict dresscode 24-Year Anniversary Ball takes place on Friday 24 from 10pm to 3am at the Manor Complex, again with an After Party at The Westin. 

The Ball, which drew 1,500+ people last year, will offer “five rooms of dance, kink and sin”.

There’ll be a full all-night bar, play equipment, world class fetish performers and — as with the Beat & Greet — a hotel shuttle service for those with a transport pass.

Saturday 25 is the night of the Xtreme Players Party, described as the “drunken lovechild” of Fetish Factory boss Glenn Catapano and the XFP events, and usually attracting 800-plus people. 

Also described as “the nastiest, dirtiest, wildest and most extreme party of the weekend”, it places the accent firmly on play, and is followed once again by an After Party at The Westin.

After four nights into which Florida Fetish Weekend patrons will have been able to pack no less than seven events, Sunday 26’s Pervy Pool Party will probably come as a blessed relief.

This afternoon by the Westin Hotel Pool, with its ‘fetish or sexy swim attire’ dresscode, American-style barbecue and DJs spinning “beats hotter than the South Florida sun”, attracted more than 900 people last year.

Final event of the Florida Fetish Weekend 2019 programme returns to the Westin Pool on