Monday, December 26, 2005
The Swingers: LA Couples
The first really organized sex party I ever attended was early last year in downtown Los Angeles. It's a group called L.A.Couples. They don't exactly come out and refer to themselves as swingers, but when the label wafts their way they don't run for cover either.
I attended one of their parties as a way to find out what their facility is like. Back at the time I was working with a small committee of other gay and bisexual women who were looking for a space to rent for a monthly girlie sex party. We looked everywhere for a space. Let me tell you, it ain't easy. Especially when you drop the clinker on the landlord to be, that it's for a girlie sex party.
It's amazing how many places said "no" to us. Some of it had to do with insurance matters on the building in question. A lot of it had to do with...well, it goes under the category of "You Girls Shouldn't Be Having That Much Fun."
I looked at male bathhouses too, in the hopes that they might have an off-night when the owner might want to chance renting his facility out to a horde of women. Not much doing there either. Male bathhouses in a place like L.A. don't HAVE off-nights. Every night is a great night to make money for them. Why give that up?
So eventually I stumbled across the L.A.Couples crowd. The owner, L, is a thin blonde woman of Scottish descent. Together with her husband they manage this huge warehouse of a facility. Several activities take place here. During the days, it is the largest porn studio in Los Angeles. They shoot everything here, just about. On the weekends, they have swinger parties, or BDSM male parties. So if you're a group with some dough and you want to rent space, this is the place for you.
It is a catacomb of nooks and crannies filled with dungeon paraphernalia, i.e. a pretty authentic-looking jail cell, whipping posts. But it also has goodies for the whitebread types among us. There is a Sultan's Lair, with plush bedding and heavy on the drapery, of course. There are beds so huge and elevated you might think you were boarding an oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico.
If you like exotic settings while you groove erotically with your beloved(s), then you must attend a weekend party here.
The admission price is probably creeping up around a hundred bucks a couple now, but you get some bang for your bucks. They have a large nightclub kind of area that includes a full bar, a pretty decent buffet, and an elevated dance floor in the front, complete with several poles for those ladies who care to flex their muscles gyrating around them.
They have a little girls bedroom that's JUST for women. I found my way there rather early in the evening. It was already occupied by three fetching Ladies of Color, who were involved in a lovely daisy chain of muff diving. I didn't want to jump in, but I was certainly happy to lounge close by and stroke myself as I watched them at their play. After completion, they got up and went their way as if they had just visited the Powder Room.
I should caution people though, that if you are a woman looking specifically for other women, this may be hard to find here. The atmosphere is pretty relentlessly heterosexual. Queerness has not invaded this space yet, at least not on the "couples nights." And male-on-male action is unknown. Give it about another twenty years.
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I attended one of their parties as a way to find out what their facility is like. Back at the time I was working with a small committee of other gay and bisexual women who were looking for a space to rent for a monthly girlie sex party. We looked everywhere for a space. Let me tell you, it ain't easy. Especially when you drop the clinker on the landlord to be, that it's for a girlie sex party.
It's amazing how many places said "no" to us. Some of it had to do with insurance matters on the building in question. A lot of it had to do with...well, it goes under the category of "You Girls Shouldn't Be Having That Much Fun."
I looked at male bathhouses too, in the hopes that they might have an off-night when the owner might want to chance renting his facility out to a horde of women. Not much doing there either. Male bathhouses in a place like L.A. don't HAVE off-nights. Every night is a great night to make money for them. Why give that up?
So eventually I stumbled across the L.A.Couples crowd. The owner, L, is a thin blonde woman of Scottish descent. Together with her husband they manage this huge warehouse of a facility. Several activities take place here. During the days, it is the largest porn studio in Los Angeles. They shoot everything here, just about. On the weekends, they have swinger parties, or BDSM male parties. So if you're a group with some dough and you want to rent space, this is the place for you.
It is a catacomb of nooks and crannies filled with dungeon paraphernalia, i.e. a pretty authentic-looking jail cell, whipping posts. But it also has goodies for the whitebread types among us. There is a Sultan's Lair, with plush bedding and heavy on the drapery, of course. There are beds so huge and elevated you might think you were boarding an oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico.
If you like exotic settings while you groove erotically with your beloved(s), then you must attend a weekend party here.
The admission price is probably creeping up around a hundred bucks a couple now, but you get some bang for your bucks. They have a large nightclub kind of area that includes a full bar, a pretty decent buffet, and an elevated dance floor in the front, complete with several poles for those ladies who care to flex their muscles gyrating around them.
They have a little girls bedroom that's JUST for women. I found my way there rather early in the evening. It was already occupied by three fetching Ladies of Color, who were involved in a lovely daisy chain of muff diving. I didn't want to jump in, but I was certainly happy to lounge close by and stroke myself as I watched them at their play. After completion, they got up and went their way as if they had just visited the Powder Room.
I should caution people though, that if you are a woman looking specifically for other women, this may be hard to find here. The atmosphere is pretty relentlessly heterosexual. Queerness has not invaded this space yet, at least not on the "couples nights." And male-on-male action is unknown. Give it about another twenty years.
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