Closed Lifestyle Clubs

Club Discretions ran for nearly a quarter of a century behind an unmarked door at 3304 North 27th Avenue, sandwiched between Thomas and Osborn in the industrial flats of west Phoenix. The club had no street signage — "look for the BLUE lights on the west side of 27th Ave," the website used to read, and that was the only landmark you got.

Wicked Grounds was a kink-friendly cafe, boutique, and education space located at 289 8th St in San Francisco's SoMa neighborhood, operating from September 2009 until the permanent closure of its brick-and-mortar location at the end of June 2023. Founded by Ryan Galiotto and Rose White and later owned by Mir Bilodeau (Miriam Green), it combined a coffeehouse and fetish boutique with an upstairs workshop space.

Tucked into a gated residential estate roughly ten to fifteen minutes east of Downtown San Diego off the I-8, Passion Palace pitched itself as Southern California's premier on-premise lifestyle venue for couples and single women. The property stretched across 5,800 square feet of landscaped grounds and included a pool, spa, and tennis court alongside a large covered patio — a setting that read more like a private party at a well-heeled friend's home than a commercial club.

CONFLICT — Option A (conf 82, agent 1): Nestled in Downtown LA Arts District, Den of Iniquity is a West Coast BDSM institution founded 1993. Led by Cybill Troy.

Club FA, also known as Freedom Acres, was one of Southern California's largest on-premise swinger clubs — roughly 13,000 square feet on Devore Road in San Bernardino, at the north edge of the Inland Empire. The main floor paired a dance area and raised pole stage with a second, more intimate lounge floor, plus a pool table, scattered tables for eating and mingling, and TVs throughout playing adult films.

Entre Nous has been Washington DC's premier members-only lifestyle event since 2000 — a roving off-premise social club for couples and single women. Rather than occupying a fixed address, events rotate through discreet DC nightclub venues, typically running 9 or 10PM to 3AM.

Club Hedonism was, for decades, the oldest and longest-running swingers club in South Florida — a private, members-only, BYOB on-premise lifestyle nightclub tucked into a low-slung commercial strip at 1000 E Sample Rd in Pompano Beach. It kept a deliberately discreet, no-smoking, members-only door and ran Wednesday through Saturday from the evening into the early-morning hours, drawing a couples-and-singles crowd to its bar, lounge, dancefloor, locker room, and on-premise playrooms.

Club E'Lan ran for at least the better part of two decades as one of New England's longest-standing private swinger clubs, founded in 1994 and operated entirely on the old-school NASCA model — phone, mail, and a personal AOL email, with the actual party location never published online or anywhere else. The mailing address was a PO Box in Wakefield, Massachusetts; the parties themselves were held in "a private home located just 20 minutes north of Boston," with the address disclosed only to guests who had cleared screening.

Sitting on Q Street in the heart of South Omaha, R-Place built its reputation as Nebraska's only dedicated on-premise lifestyle club - a privately owned, 4,000-square-foot, three-level building converted into what owners called an elegant upscale classy venue. The main floor centres on a full dance floor with professional DJ booth, state-of-the-art lighting and a sound system, ringed by lounge-style seating and five TVs (including a 60-inch screen).

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Set in a standalone two-story building on Atlantic Avenue — away from the casino corridor but squarely in the thick of Atlantic City's off-Strip scene — RolePlay Lounge billed itself as New Jersey's number-one erotic couples playground and, for much of the 2010s, was one of only two venues in the city openly offering on-premise lifestyle experiences. The building spanned over 5,000 square feet across two distinct floors.

The Badd Kitty Club operated out of a large private venue at 3491 Route 20 in the town of Sheridan, Chautauqua County — about 45 miles southwest of Buffalo near the Fredonia/Dunkirk exit. Billing itself as western New York's premier women-run, on-premise lifestyle club, it catered exclusively to couples and single women; membership was free to apply for, with event access and website login granted only after vetting.

For more than three decades, Le Trapeze was New York City's most enduring couples-only sex club, occupying a distinctive space at 17 East 27th Street, between Madison and Fifth Avenues in Midtown Manhattan. The club was lodged inside the Prince George Hotel — a 1903 NYC landmark — specifically within what had been the hotel's Madison Pub, a Shakespearean English-style bar.

Permanently closed. Menages Club operated as a private, membership-based lifestyle venue in downtown Nashville from 2000 until 2020, when the building was sold and converted into Drexel House, a homeless shelter run by the nonprofit Room in the Inn.

Permanently closed. The Velvet Curtain Social Club was a private on-premises lifestyle club at 1825 South Good Latimer Expressway, on the near-south edge of downtown Dallas between Deep Ellum and the Cedars.

Club Choices — branded interchangeably as Club Choices Houston and Choices Swingers Club — operated for years out of an unmarked warehouse on Star Lane, a quiet industrial side street tucked just north of the Galleria. The building itself is a roughly 9,000-square-foot, three-level Class C industrial shell with no street signage; the kind of place you could drive past a hundred times without noticing.

Desires Houston sat along State Highway 249 in north Houston, tucked into a commercial suite at 14207 SH-249 S, Unit 23. The club positioned itself as a private members-only lifestyle venue catering to open-minded adults, drawing couples and singles from across Texas, Louisiana, and beyond.

Club EASSEL ran for about four years as Milwaukee's self-described "BDSM/Lifestyle Community Center" — a sex-positive, body-positive, kink-inclusive members space built out of a suite inside a multi-tenant 1950s flex/industrial building at 615 S 89th Street, on the western edge of Milwaukee proper at the West Allis border. The club shared the building with a mechanical contractor, a junk-removal franchise and a construction firm — daytime industrial tenants who closed up by the time EASSEL's doors opened.