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Duty2Please -> RE: Lifestyle Neighborhood (6/30/2007 8:01:02 AM)
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ORIGINAL: DamianTheX
I have had a vision of a neighborhood in a wooded area, gated with fence all around it. This neighborhood would be open to any lifestyle folks as well as swingers, nudists and the gay/lesbian community. Essentially it would be a place to live where the "deviants" would be more than welcome. After pitching the basic idea to a new friend of mine (swinger), he spoke with a buddy of his (developer/lifestyle?) and they want to meet with me to get my idea and maybe roll with it into reality.
One question I am sure that will come up is "What is the demand for such a neighborhood?"
There are plenty of other questions and legalities (permits, etc.), but you guys can answer: What IS the demand for such a place? Would you move to a neighborhood where everyone there is open minded to whatever goes on on everyone else's private lot?
Thanks for your feedback.
X
**EDIT**
Thanks for your feedback, Rover. Just to add, this would not be like the peace/love communes of the sixties. This would be a middle class aimed neighborhood and would not differ much from the standard association based "adult" communities full of professionals and working deviants. There would be some communal ideas, but for the most part that would be centered around community land use.
Correct me if I'm wrong (and maybe I missed something in the discussion), but is this really much different from what essentially exists in a lot of sexually free communities we have now around the U.S. and elsewhere? I'm thinking about Provincetown, Mass., the Chelsea section of Manhattan, San Francisco. The big difference is that these places are urban, yours would be suburban/rural. In all these places you can't get away with everything in public but you can do a lot, usually at certain events. That might not be a bad model for this type of community: I know there are certain parades and events where nudity is accepted (I've seen pictures of people nude on parade), and there are certainly events where it's accepted in public for kinksters to be led around on leashes while they're in leather costume, for instance. In this kind of community you might have a nude-friendly event at the community house or a leather picnic or whatnot. Those would obviously be times when inviting the relatives over would be a bad idea, although in the long run your community is going to be known as kinky and it's going to be commented on in the media. You really can't avoid that, so if you live there, all of your relatives are going to know. Provincetown, Mass. is that way. Then again, people like Norman Mailer live there, right? It's not that big a deal.
It seems to me that this would work if you marketed it to kinky/'gay/nudist people from urban areas who are looking for something more rural. In recent years, lots of urban people who have been making good money in Manhattan have seen the low prices in the Catskills and have bought homes there (one example of a much bigger trend). Of course, people from Chelsea or San Francisco or Provincetown who want a more rural, private environment to do what they want to do can just get their own private plot of land and do it. They can even find rural places where there are other kinksters or people with a freer sexual lifestyle: Woodstock, N.Y. is an example, although most people even there are pretty conservative. Your innovation is to have the community center and an openness about sexuality and kink that you don't have in other rural places. I have a feeling that something like this will eventually happen, and if it doesn't work out here, maybe it will when some urban kink community will, all together, get a rural spot (or maybe one even within good commuting distance of a city, say 45 minutes from the city) for recreation and then find that some people want to live out there full time. It will be something like a kink country club with a bunch of kinksters living nearby, forming, essentially, a community. I can imagine a few kink-friendly bed and breakfast places springing up and even a kink-friendly little tourist industry getting started. That happens now with gays. Getting a gated community with a community center is not a large step beyond that. You might want to ask yourselves: has a gated community happened with gays? Why or why not?
It would have rules like everything has rules nowadays. You would have to have an understanding with police and local authorities the way every kink establishment and major event today has them. A more liberal or libertarian rural community would be much easier to set things up in, but being a gated community would make that part easier. It wouldn't be all that different from what we now have.
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