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LadyPact -> RE: -=Now y'all wannabes can "play like Grey"=- (11/11/2013 8:49:38 AM)
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ORIGINAL: MariaB
Don't you guys have fetish clubs?
The UK has numerous large fetish clubs, Torture Garden being the largest.
Fetish clubs, at least in the UK, tend to attract anyone from your full on rubberist to people who have a vague interest in kink and want to see what its all about. I have DM'd for Torture Garden when there's been 2 thousand people through the door, 500 of which are scrambling over the dungeon furniture in a giggly fashion. Its just about impossible to DM a place like that. At best you can keep people from sitting on the dungeon equipment and watch out for bodily fluids. The people who venture as far as the dungeon in these sort of clubs are curious but not overly into anything much beyond a bit of bondage and a light flogging. Those more serious wouldn't dream of touching the dungeon in such a club.
Although you do see some wide eyed folks in the BDSM clubs, fooling around and doing things like touching without permission, trying to join in a scene uninvited or generally being daft just doesn't happen. Rules have to be abided by or that punter is out on his ear. If the 50 shades crowd went along to most London BDSM clubs they would be shocked, repulsed and probably traumatized for life!! In a fet club, with much more of a party atmosphere, the 50 Shades crowd would be able to explore to their hearts content without restriction.
Just for fun, I thought it might be interesting for you to hear the huge difference between your past experience and Mine here.
In Alaska, there is no permanent public club/dungeon in the entire state. Some folks, like Me, have something set up in their home. However, if you want to do a community dungeon, it goes something like this.
First, you have to find a venue to rent. You're going to need that venue for at least a 24 hour period. Typically, you want something that will be open to you from at least noon on Saturday until noon the next day. That's a fairly difficult task just to get that far because you have to find venue owners that are going to leave you the heck alone for that time period.
On the morning of your community dungeon, you start the process of gathering the things you will need to turn whatever space you've rented into a play area. (Keep in mind, I'm a bum and generally not involved in this part because we live about 100 miles away.) Some of the dungeon furniture, decorations, etc belong to the group as a whole. Other stuff, you have to run around town and 'borrow' from individual members of the community. If somebody who is attending that owns a pick-up truck is willing to be a part of this, that's how you get everything to your rented space. If not, you rent a U-Haul.
Hopefully, you get the first load of stuff to your rented space around noon. Other volunteers meet you at the rented space and assist in the process of setting up. Dungeon furniture gets put together, decorations get put up, lights so you can have a certain kind of ambiance. This continues, more or less, until you have your finished 'play space' around 6:00 PM. Your volunteers are come and go, mostly because they have to shower and change. You have other volunteers that set up your social area, deal with food, and whatever other amenities you are going to provide. Usually, the main person doing that shopped and did all the food preparation between Friday and Saturday to have it ready by 6:00 PM.
Your dungeon opens at 6:00 PM and is open until around 3:00 AM. You and your first volunteers have been running full steam since early morning the prior day. Some will crash at the dungeon because you've got until noon to complete the process of doing everything in reverse. Take the dungeon furniture apart, remove decorations, clean up whatever mess you've made and restore the place to the condition it was in before you started.
Think I don't miss the public clubs that are just open every weekend? Oh My Gosh, do I ever!
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