Brooklyn Sex Club Has Good Times, Buffet For Swingers

There's a pretty big sex club hidden in a hangar-like space somewhere around the border of Red Hook and Carroll Gardens, where every weekend swingers and single fornicators come together for a little coitus, voyeurism, and baked ziti. Times reporter Alan Feuer has a detailed profile on the place, which charges $40 for couples, $90 for single men, and admits unescorted women—"who are sex-club gold"—free of charge. During his time at the nameless club, which he says is located somewhere between a cement plant and the Gowanus Expressway, Feuer observes the usual out-of-shape, middle-age group sex action you'd expect, plus a girl-on-girl show between two young women who "mauled each other with the energy of terriers mating." The club's proprietor, one Mistress Wanda, tells him, "Everybody comes here: cops, postmen, bus drivers. I went to a funeral last month and recognized a pallbearer." For added flavor, the article comes with one of those 360 panorama photo spreads, depicting a carpet as sad as you'd expect. UPDATE: Naturally, our readers know the place: It's called Casbar, and it's further south than we suspected, in Sunset Park. See you all there Saturday for their Recession Buster Pizza Party! [Via Curbed]

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By John Del Signore in News on February 25, 2009 4:03 PM

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Champion

YUCK!

WorksInDUMBO

Why is that carpet sad? I think we have that same carpet in my office.

JenChungsBaby

So when a sign like that says 36 holes, is it referring to 36 women, 18 women, 12 women or just two rounds of golf?

NannyState

Hopefully bulletholes.

citizenerased

I want to go to there

NannyState

This is one story without a happy ending.

JMH

I wouldn't go anywhere near that buffet.

Meowster, it seems like you're paying for admission rather than paying for sex per se - and if sex happens, then it happens. Same principle as an "escort service" I think.

snickerdoodle

Great! So AIDS has finally been cured then?

jaycjay

No, that's why they "encourage safe sex, according to NYC Board of Health rules." That is, they limit what you're allowed to do to, uh... two general activities.

meowster

How is this legal? What about the gay sex clubs in the EV and LES...the cops busted those. I think if it is illegal, it's pretty shitty to divulge the bar info... although the website is quite elaborate. I am just so confused!

SohoTimmy

Straight people are sick

jaycjay

NSFW, as you'd expect:

http://www.clubcasbar.com/

Gothampc

"Everybody comes here: cops, postmen, bus drivers, writers named John...

jaycjay

It's probably not something that the Times would be likely to publish as a standalone piece, but the article is part of this series:

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/newyorkandregion/series/rooms/index.html

"The guiding concept of this repeating feature, Rooms, is to visit places you may never have thought about — or, if you have thought about them, have probably never been there. It’s voyeurism of a sort, ennobled by a sense of curiosity and a sociological instinct."

Brado

I think I got an STD just by reading this.

invis212

its called casbar and it sux! my girl and i went just to check it out on halloween no less.. we are a late 20s couple and were stalked by a bunch of old scary people!!!

just saying

Well, you did go there on Halloween after all...

John Del Signore

Updated, thanks

ides_of_march

Henny Youngman used to hang out there. Take my wife, please. The Kramdens and Nortons did too; bang zoom.

just saying

Very sad--it now appears the NY Times will put anything in its paper to bolster readership.

"They come here for the cleanliness and for the ambience of innocent eroticism." Really?

grandeur

I honestly don't understand why anyone mildly attractive would go there.

Papercutninja

Mildly attractive women with father issues. Otherwise? It looks like a LARPing party with adults and less costumes.

Internet Handle

The Times article is the kind of unsubstantiated, un-fact-checkable "notes"-based journalism that brought down Stephen Glass. A lot of clever quips and too-perfect moments, and of course no one would be willing to come forward to set the record straight.

jaycjay

Not really something that the Times would be likely to publish on its own, but the article is part of this series:

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/newyorkandregion/series/rooms/index.html