'The perverse and abnormal were valued intrinsically.'

The punks took the iconic use of sexual fetishism and used it to their full advantage to get the desired effect. Shock tactics.

'Rapist masks and rubber wear, leather bodices and fishnet stockings, pointed stiletto heel shoes, the entire paraphernalia of bondage - belts, straps and chains - were exhumed from the boudoir, closet and the pornographic film and placed on the street where they retained their forbidden connotations'