Kinky Getaways to Soothe Your Wanderlust
I was looking around for interesting places to go in order to shake up Valentine’s Day for you, when Monterey’s Stay and Play, a northern California-based kinky bed and breakfast, added me on Twitter. I’ve not yet been there, but I love that it even exists. Romantic destination bed and breakfasts are nothing new, but instead of storybook ambiance, this one has single tails, medieval iron shackles, a fully-stocked dungeon, and all the privacy you could desire. This “bed and bondage” only rents to one party at a time.
Curious, I started looking around and soon uncovered that Los Angeles has one, as well: the L.A. Stay and Play. This space is less cozy bed and breakfast and substantially more L.A. The space is a 3,000-square foot loft in the city’s hip and artsy downtown. The space sleeps four “comfortably” — that is, they have two queen beds and three steel sleeping cages. The play area is divided into six environments: the white room, the gilded parlor, the scarlett boudoir (Fifty Shades fans might even call this the “Red Room of Pain”), the warehouse, the interrogation station, and the bunker. These spaces are packed with furniture and restraints from all the big names in bondage gear, though the stay and play does ask people to bring their own toys — you know, hygiene. Lucky for you, L.A. is a good place to go shopping for such things.
L.A. is sleek and modern, and if that’s not your thing, a trip across the country might prove more your style. New York’s La Domaine Esemar is an upstate chateau that combines the warmth of home and the ecstasies of the dungeon. They offer more than a space to stay and play — there are training sessions, with masters, mistresses and slaves on call to help guide a visitor’s explorations of their desires. The guests range widely from beginners to professionals, all mingling together with the chateau’s acolytes — the guests who came and loved it so, that they chose to never leave. If that’s not a testimonial, I don’t know what is.
That’s just three places. There are hundreds more, all over the world, opening their doors to give kinky people a space to play, relax and be themselves. The tumblelog QueerKink has an expansive collection of links to kinky vacation spots located all over the world, if you want to go looking for something closer to home.
It’s hard to believe how many places there are now for people interested in BDSM. I remember my parents finding a copy of Skin Two when I was young and shipping me off to a psychologist. It wasn’t easy being kinky then. Now everyone is reading and recommending bondage erotica and there are even kinky bed and breakfasts and vacation destinations. What a long, strange trip it’s been.
Header image from L.A. Stay and Play.
