The Multipurpose Room

Pictured above: Sherry Vine is flanked by Joey Arias and Raven O in a parody of Lady Gaga's "Telephone" video.


There are more uses for a sex club than just having parties.
Yes, the dungeon-like space has been used by photographers looking for interesting locations and a couple porn movies have been shot there, specifically young men pissing and a couple other movies with men of color in mind. But that's in the distant past and it's time to bring our dungeon into the age of the internet!

With that in mind last weekend, someone came in and really stirred things up: popular local drag queen Sherry Vine.
Sherry has been on the NYC scene for several years and has recently become an international viral sensation (the good kind of viral) with her YouTube parody of Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" video with nearly 4 million veiwings at the time of this writing. Viewers rave how hysterically funny and offensive her version of "Bad Romance" is with her lyrical twist: "Shit My Pants." Sherry is not a stranger to scatalogical humor. She also did a version of Natalie Imbruglia's "Torn" rewritten as "Corn." (It was found in her poo and she didn't remember eating it! Ugh!)
Sherry's newest project is another Lady Gaga parody, this time the 9 minute mini-movie "Telephone" featuring Beyonce. Beyonce gets Gaga out of prison and they go to a diner and poison everyone. Sherry has another drag favorite Peppermint playing the part of Beyonce.

Since there's a scene in the original video that takes place in a jail -- and we have a mock prison cell in our space -- it seemed the ideal location for her to use. And since we're friends that go way back, she got to use it for free! How perfect is that?
The production was quite impressive, too. She had six backup dancers for a couple choreographed sequences and Joey Arias and Raven O (two other popular drag performers) played the parts of two tough prisons guards throwing her into the cell for a cavity search -- to humorous effect. (The cavity search was not in Gaga's original version!)
I helped out with the lighting and whatever else they needed me for. The filmmaker, Blake Martin, is a student at Columbia University and did an outstanding job with Sherry's "Bad Romance" video, so I'm anxious to see how "Telephone" (aka "Make Me Moan") turns out!

It's fun to be a part of the creative side of New York City's downtown scene -- something I've been photographing for almost 25 years... but that's another career. And this blog is about sex parties!

Other purposes for the space? Using it for private encounters!
There have been times I've used it for sexual escapades before or after a party, when a scene is so hot that it needs to continue (like the one at the beginning of the year). But I've never really set up a scenario and brought someone in when the operating hours of a party weren't involved.

Last weekend, though, I was dropping off some invites to a video store and decided to see who was there. (Video stores are not my favorite arena for cruising. I prefer sex clubs.) I quickly found a short Asian guy -- only two other people were there! Once he invited me into his booth, he made it known that he liked to be collared like a dog, so I took off my belt and wrapped it around his neck. I've never done that before, but he seemed interested in kink!
I ended up fucking him doggy style, holding the belt as a leash, careful not to do any form of auto-erotic asphyxiation. Breath control was not his interest. (And I don't want to be arrested for an accidental death during "rough sex!" ) He loved it.

So the next day I put my space to use and invited him over for a private session. There are areas set up for bondage play (where Sherry's jail cell was -- the product of a lesbian promoter who's built some impressive BD/SM equipment), so I had him handcuffed and attached to different apparatuses and, among many other things, was striking him repeatedly with a riding crop. It was fun. Sort of. I'd never done stuff like that before with someone I wasn't very attracted to. And I was doing it more out of curiosity and for his pleasure.
It was taking him forever to cum -- to the point that I gave up and he didn't even have an orgasm! Ugh! I came already, can we end this? I thought.
Maybe we'll play again, maybe we won't. But being a good top like that takes a lot of work, coming up with inventive new scenarios and doing all the work! I invited him to a future party, hopefully he'll find a different top to treat him as he sees fit. I'd prefer that be someone else.

On a side note, someone was asking in an email about "queer parties for cis men."
"Cis" men? I had never heard of that. So I did a Google search for sexual slang, after erroneously giving them information for a male-to-female trannie party. The sexual slang dictionary said "cis" meant "complete irrevocable submission." (Sounds like my Asian friend!) That's certainly not a trannie party (unless you're into that as well), so I directed the questioner to a couple events I heard were more BD/SM oriented.
But -- after much back and forth for clarity, I found out that "cis" means something completely different, because the question was coming from another subculture:
"Cis" are what female-to-male transexuals refer to as men who were born men with a real biological penis. So this transboi was looking for a sex party for his (born) male gay friend. Fascinating.
And so the education continues.