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3/4/2015 6:51 pm

A Roundup Of French Swing Clubs Highlights – What Else? – Food!

The French are known for being highly experimental regarding what they put in their mouths. This tendency explains why they are both great gastronomes and great lovers.

This epicurean bent helps explain why an online overview of ten Paris swing clubs includes notes on the food and wine several offer. For the uninitiated, that’s a pretty big difference from U.S. clubs, where alcohol is often B.Y.O.B. due to licensing laws, and food, when provided, would be sniffed at derisively by any self-respecting Denny’s.

According to “So where are all these sex clubs in Paris?,” an article appearing on English-language French site thelocal, France is home to nearly 500 swingers clubs. The piece doesn’t claim to be comprehensive: Instead, it offers an overview of some of the poshest venues. (Look the article up: It also features photographs, some of which are rather striking.)

But what makes the piece worthwhile – at least, for those of us with warped perspectives – is how author Priscillia Charles notes the refreshments included in each club’s admission fees. The fees, incidentally, are listed in euros. Need help translating? The euro’s taken a beating of late: For those looking to add currency swaps to any other swapping they might be pursuing, as of March 4 the euro stands at around $1.11 U.S. or $1.38 Canadian.

Admission prices for the clubs range from 50 to around 150 euros. Rituel Foch bears an 80 euro entrance fee – a price that includes two drink tickets, which gives joyfully obscene connotations to the American club “two drink minimum” standard.

Club Libertin 2Plus2 charges couples 85 euros for admission. Couples get access to a buffet and a bottle of champagne with their fee… although one must wonder whether projectile corks are a smart idea for a venue that encourages unprotected delicate bits.

Le Mask’s entrance fees go up to 150 euros, but that price features the promise of champagne. At 149 euros, Taken Club’s fee, which includes a buffet, might seem a bargain… but there’s no mention of alcohol included in that cost. In contrast, Quai 17’s 160-euro price includes champagne – but there’s no mention of food.

Side note: Ah, Paris – where the swing clubs offer not just booze with their admissions costs, but specify champagne. Me, I’m a red wine man: Give me a halfway decent Cotes du Rhone and a sippy cup and I’m happy.

But where would France be without at least one truly decadent overindulgence? Les Chandelles (literally, “The Candles”), true to its name, offers a candlelit dinner, with wine, at fees which can reach 290 euros – that’s more than 320 U.S. dollars, or nearly 400 Canadian dollars.

Patrons assumedly are allowed to use the melting wax from their table setting in any consensual fashion they choose.

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3/4/2015 7:03 pm

Ah, the decadence!

I would trade champagne for food any time, especially if they offer warm profiterole.

If I go to Paris again, it will be with a wealthy swing partner.

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