Did you know that freewheelin' sex club Plato's Retreat had rules? (Many revolved around the mats!) Anyway, the sex club, which was housed inside the basement of the Ansonia Hotel on West 73rd Street, was a members-only type joint that (according to the above sign) did not allow threesomes, drugs, alcohol (!), or smoking on the sex mats! They did, however, declare that "The pleasure and the fun will keep you feeling young" in this amazing commercial.
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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]

