Australia's best-known bondage dungeon has closed its doors and everything must go: from whips and nipple clamps to gimp masks and surgical instruments.
The contents of Temple 22 at Darlinghurst in Sydney's inner-city is being sold online by Lawsons auctioneers and even the catalogue comes with a warning.
'Due to the explicit nature of some of the lots viewing is for over 18 years of age only,' Lawsons states on its website.
Many of the items for sale are literally eye-watering, even if their prices may seem reasonable to sadomasochism aficionados.
Australia's best-known bondage dungeon has closed its doors and everything must go: from whips and nipple clamps to gimp masks. Temple 22 was at Darlinghurst in Sydney's inner city
Lot 244, a stainless steel custom-made chastity device with lock, together with assorted stainless steel weights and two pairs of steel nipple clamps was going for just $20 on Tuesday
Lot 304 is a pair of black latex/rubber chap shorts (approx size 30) with a heavily studded jockstrap (approx size 30/32). It has an estimated price guide of $20 to $40 but no bids
This carved timber four-poster bed with foliate scrolling head board and uprights has been a feature of Temple 22. It has a price estimate of $600 to $800 and a current top bid of $300
The first page of the catalogue is fairly tame - the sorts of items one would expect to find in any large home, or brothel.
Everything in the 'fantasy house' is up for sale including beds, coffee tables, timber chests, fire gates, hall runners, glassware and lamps.
There are red velvet drapes, a zebra patern chaise lounge, cushions, mirrors and wing-back armchairs.
Hints of the themed rooms in this palace to bondage, discipline, sadism and masochism (BDSM) begin to emerge, with hospital equipment such as a stainless steel surgical trolley on offer.
A bookcase containing children's titles is up for grabs, along with a chair and blackboard and timber school desk. There is a dunce's cap and mortar board.
Going deeper into the 403-lot catalogue, the items get more exotic. Leather masks and ball gags are for sale with whips made of hair, suede, leather, PVC and rubber.
There are kangaroo hide stockwhips, a white leather straight jacket and a dog bowl with 'MAN' on the side.
For sale is a timber stock with a price guide suggesting $150 to $250; bidding had already reached $200 on Tuesday afternoon.
Lot 314 is described as a rubber Batwoman mask, a pleather puppy hood and a PVC gimp hood
This set of wooden stocks, measuring 1 metre by 92 centimetres, has a current top bid of $200
This surgical set including four speculums, a proctoscope, a stainless steel medical container and kidney dish. With a price estimate up to $120 it has so far attracted a highest bid of $50
Lot 21 is a 'a medical table with padded top on steel legs and castors' with an estimate of $100 to $200 and a current bid of $80.
Lot 48 is a 'sleep suit' made of pleather - plastic meant to look like leather - which has already reached the high end of the estimated price guide of $120.
Someone has offered $35 for a 'quantity of ropes in jaunty colours'.
A small group of leather and studded hand paddles could be yours for as little as $40 while a s set of four burgundy leather wrist and ankle restraints with tooled decoration has attracted a $90 bid.
Paddles come in heart, round, rectangular and hand shapes. Many of them are studded.
Two rolls of black packing tape together with an assortment of clothes pegs have an estimate of $50 to $70.
A pair of leather ankle suspension boots has attracted a bid of $100 and someone is ready to fork out $130 for 'adjustable wrist/ankle spreader bars.'
The contents of Temple 22 at Darlinghurst in Sydney's inner-city is being sold online by Lawsons auctioneers and even the catalogue comes with a warning to prospective viewers
This pleather 'sleep suit' with an estimate of $80 to $120 already has a top bid of $120
