Last time I was in LA I wrote about my portable GPS unit and how its stored addresses were a treasure trove of LA’s kinky hot spots. Well today I added a new one to it, as I played for the first time at Dungeon East. Like a lot of play spaces it’s in a industrial district, and contrasts a somewhat sketchy looking exterior with a beautiful interior. It’s very clean, crisp and modern. I particularly like the fact that all the furniture is coordinated with the space, rather than being a random mishmash of colors and materials. That’s not only pleasing aesthetically, but it shows attention to detail, which carries across into other aspects of the space.
My play partner was Mistress Lucy – someone I’ve played with many times before – and whipping, caning, CBT, electrical play and watersports were all on the menu. The caning took place on top of that bench and below that highly appropriate sign. It was a great session. I just hope my body can keep going through the remaining plans I have for it this week.
Dungeon East is available for rental from Mistress Justine Cross.
Of dungeons and interior design?
The interiors of the three dungeons where I was trained by professionals – about 16 – 17 years ago – and most of the dungeon interiors one sees on line are hardly distinguishable from the interiors of sex shops and fetish outlets. All the sexy and pervy goodies proudly on permanent display. The toys, the tools of torture, the furniture, the clothes, the outfits and the footware. More often than not a bewildering picture of clutter and optical overload that leaves your head spinning. And the resulting headache all yours to take care of and to nurse.
This Dungeon East represents the other end of the spectrum, obviously.
It most certainly looks very impressive, at first sight. Bright, clean and very easy to keep it that way – extremely important for a commercial undertaking of that ilk – hygienic, well lighted, very cleverly thought up, artfully thought through and very tastefully executed.
Nevertheless, words like operating theatre and intensive care unit, concepts like Bauhaus and names like le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wrong and all those other “artists”, architects and designers keep springing to mind. To me this dungeon looks much more like a fashionable art gallery or a very expensive concept store, than like a warm and welcoming home for debauched, depraved and perverted, good, clean, dirty fun.
But I may be wrong. I’ve never visited the place; never experienced it.
I asked Bob (my co-owner) and Marga (our joint property) and the three of us neither feel inspired, nor feel invited by those pictures on their website. As if the place permanently smells of bleach and other detergents, instead of sexy shenanigans.
Very important, the way a place smells. Even more so for a space, a room, an attic or a cellar dedicated to raunchy sex, debauchery, depravity, perversion and (mild) torture. You and your readers know and will recognise that smell immediately. The smell of a short or not so short holiday in pervert heaven.
That said, we’re glad you had such fun with Mistress Lucy, paltego.
Wish you and your readers a very nice weekend.
I’m sure the space was clean, but it definitely didn’t smell of bleach. It smelled, like most of these kind of spaces do, of old timber and brick, mixed with some notes of leather from the furniture. Most place spaces seem to be in old warehouses and factory districts, so they have that nice old industrial building smell. It’s one I now intimately associated with kink, having played with it in my nostrils!
I enjoy a space overflowing with kinky toys and decorated in the traditional blacks and reds just as much as the next kinky pervert. But getting freaky in those spaces is kind of what they’re all about. It would almost feel perverse to do anything else in them. Where with a minimal space, or a very modern one, or a very light airy one, it somehow feels more decadent and depraved to play in to me. There’s less context and therefore more weight falls to what you decide to do in it.
Anyway, I’ll no doubt continue to explore the whole breadth of play spaces available to me! Thanks for the thoughtful and interesting comment!
-paltego
I should never try to multi task. And I should have capitalised: “… holiday in Pervert Heaven”.
There you have it.
And nothing against modern design or modern furniture. Quite the contrary. But there are circumstances, places and spaces where it’s less than desirable; a bit too much of a good thing, methinks.