Gay dark room nyc

The allure of a dark room lies in its lighting – it should be dark, but not too shadowy. Ideally, you won’t recognise the cashier from your local Tesco Metro, but you will be able to form out a sweaty throng of bodies in positions you’d normally only glimpse on OnlyFans. Dim rooms have been a draw in queer spaces for decades and last de rigueur in other, friskier parts of Europe. Deposit it this way: It’s a rookie error to wear your best shoes to Berlin’s famously bohemian superclub Berghain, because you’ll just have to chuck them away after you leave seven hours later. 

But now, dark rooms are enjoying a drawn-out overdue boom in the UK, especially among MSM (men who have sex with men). “Essentially, the reason they’re becoming popular again is a supply and demand issue,” says Ian Howley, CEO of health and wellbeing philanthropy LGBT HERO. “Gay men want a place where they can have joy, and a dusky room in a club can be the perfect place to let proceed of your inhibitions and be sexually free.” 

This new wave of gay sex-positivity is being fuelled partly by post-pandemic carpe diem – we now comprehend there’s no gesture saving your “any hole’