1. Bragging rights. Maxim, The Los Angeles Times, Travel Channel and others have praised F&F as a can’t-miss party, the latter dubbing it one of the top 10 events in the world.
2. Because everyone is in costume. The website’s dress-code page even says, “looky loos and party poopers are encouraged to go elsewhere.”
3. To ride a giant banana! Forget the mechanical bull—sexual innuendo makes everything better.
4. To whip, tickle and tie up your party pals on the BDSM stage.
5. Don’t want to get naughty with your friends? It’s still fun to watch others, no?
6. There’s a Human Petting Zoo.
7. Eye candy. Some of the sexiest people will sport some of the sexiest costumes. Even the guys get racy—we’re looking at you, shirtless Scotsmen in above-the-knee kilts.
8. To laugh your ass off at the humorous getups. Have you ever seen a giant condom walking around with Jesus and Wonder Woman?
9. PHOTO OPS! Admit it—you’ve been thinking about selfies and photobombs this entire time.
10. For ideas for next year’s costume.
11. To cut a rug to some solid beats. From EDM and Top 40 to house, trance and hip-hop, F&F runs the musical gamut. Behind the booth this year: DJ Dan, DJ Skribble, Donald Glaude, Scooter & Lavelle and more.
12. To buy naughty novelties from F&F vendors.
13. Electrifying performances. With fire-breathers, stilt walkers and dudes using chainsaws to send sparks into the air, it’s epic.
14. The Fetish Fashion Show by “German fetish shop” the Black Room.
Halloween 2015
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- New scares refresh traditional haunts
- The amazing true story of the best candy bucket in Vegas
- The brief, bittersweet life of a pumpkin
- Khoury's taps the pumpkin this Halloween
- 20 reasons to go to the 20th annual Fetish & Fantasy Halloween Ball
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15. How many parties in Las Vegas do you know of that have lasted two decades? Right?
16. Want to fly your freak flag? With a mask on, your neighbors won’t know you’re the one in the black latex grinding on your beau.
17. To watch humans riding humans like horses—with clothes on!
18. To get rained on by a giant papier-mâché phallus spouting confetti. (The obvious chaser for that giant banana ride.)
19. When else will you see the Joint turn into a massive nightclub?
20. Because we said so!
Fetish & Fantasy Halloween Ball 20th Anniversary October 31, 10 p.m., $88 GA, $269 VIP, $49.50 after 1 a.m. Hard Rock Hotel, halloweenball.com.
