Club Discretions

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. Founded around 2000 by John "Dutch" Van Brunschot and formally incorporated in Arizona in 2003 as Discretions Adult Social Club, the venue was one of a small group of Phoenix lifestyle clubs that survived the city's landmark 1998 anti-swingers ordinance — the one that declared sex clubs "inimical to the health, safety, general welfare and morals of the inhabitants of the city of Phoenix" and was later copied as a template by Las Vegas and Indianapolis. Discretions fought it in federal court alongside Club Chameleon, Guys & Dolls and Encounters, kept its doors open by boarding up its open viewing windows and converting public play areas (including the famously-named "Mass Hysteria" theme room) into private ones, and weathered a 2002 Phoenix PD raid in which staff and managers were briefly arrested. After all of it, the club just kept opening. For the next twenty-plus years it was Phoenix's busiest swingers social club, open seven nights a week — Sun–Thu 8pm to 3am, Fri–Sat to 5am, "363 days a year" by the club's own count. The vibe was unpretentious and a touch retro. A mirrored main stage with a brass stripper pole sat in the centre of the floor, with a separate stripper cage holding two more poles off to the side. Adult films played in the background throughout the building. A non-alcoholic juice-and-soda bar served free snacks and cheap drinks (Arizona state law banned alcohol sales on lifestyle premises, so guests poured their own from a house-issued red cup). Pool table, video games, a resident DJ taking requests, free condoms in every room. Upstairs sat the club's real anchor — nine private, semi-private and voyeur bedrooms, two B&D love swings, a "hideaway loft bed with a view," and what Discretions self-billed as the "LARGEST orgy room" in Arizona. It was a fully on-premises, full-swap club, marketed to all ages from 18 to 80, with a published etiquette guide ("Look Presentable, Ask Questions, Introduce Yourself…") and no formal dress code. By 2023 membership ran $25 per person per year, with a flat door fee of $10 Sun–Thu and $35 Fri–Sat; single women came free once they paid the yearly dues. Discretions did not so much close as go on hiatus. Sometime in 2023 the homepage gained a quiet banner — "Here's to many years of fun and memories, thank you for your loyal patronage. While there are currently priorities to deal with, if it is feasible Club Discretions may return in a bigger, better and more grand fashion than ever." The "Club Discretions 2.0" return never came. The clubdiscretions.com domain expired around December 2024 and now points to a parking page; the Yelp listing was flagged CLOSED at its April 2026 update. The building at 3304 N 27th Ave was taken over in 2024 by Hush Lounge AZ, a newer-generation private members-only lifestyle club that continues the address's long history as a Phoenix lifestyle venue. Of the original 1990s clubs that fought the Phoenix ordinance alongside Discretions, only Club Encounters — one block south on West Clarendon Avenue, opened 1996 — remains in continuous operation.