When Halloween time comes around again, it’s generally pretty much of a no-brainer for fetish event organisers.

“We’ll throw a fetish party with a Halloween theme,” they cry in unison. And why not? It not only provides a theme that many fetish folk are delighted to embrace. 

It also brings with it the likelihood of swelling your attendance figures with lots of kink-curious types who welcome the excuse to dip a toe in the world of fetish partying without automatically being identified as a pervert. So far, so predictable.

So it’s refreshing to find a group of fetish-friendly women who’ve put together an event in London offering a rather different kind of experience for Halloween — and one also available beyond the witching hour itself, if you’ve already made your plans for that time. 

Amatory Asylum is the latest venture from House of Kittens, the theatre company dedicated to ‘exploration into the world of erotic storytelling’. 

Part immersive theatre, part physical performance and part dance party, Amatory Asylum offers a rare chance to see the best of the House of Kittens ensemble’s signature presentations as well as newly curated pieces, all packed into one extraordinary evening. 

Amatory Asylum casts the audience in the role of medical observers within the immersive experience of a ‘surreal and sensual world’.

Dr Lili La Fleur, head of the Asylum and presiding physician of sexual psychological studies, invites audiences to become part an exclusive experiment — designed to uncover and explore the most covetous of carnal cravings.

Inspired by the work of the illustrious Scientific-Humanitarian Committee, the production invites guests to act not just as record takers, preserving for posterity the decadent acts which they witness, but also as patients.

In the latter role they can expect to undergo an evening of observation and inflammatory experimentation — which, we’re promised, will ‘give flower to their deepest desires through sensory exploration and performance’.