This past Saturday, we had our first *tiny* foray into the LS ... we visited an on-premise club (You Know Where in Fayetteville, NC). We just wanted to let everyone know how it went ... hope it won't bore you!
Things started out badly ... nothing major, just that when we called for them to send their hotel shuttle, they said it wouldn't start. No big deal ... we just called Uber. We were greeted immediately upon entering and directed to a PC to register and then to a window where a nice woman took our membership and entrance fees; issued us our membership card; and gave us glow bracelets indicating it was our first time there. We waited less than five minutes for our tour, which we took with another couple and a single female. The guide showed us every corner of the place; told us where we could and could NOT have sex; demonstrated how the machines work; explained the rules for the playroom doors and chains; and answered all of our questions. Once he let us go and wished us a good time, we checked our wine with the bartender (another nice young woman), got a locker key which required a $5 refundable deposit, put our stuff away, and walked through the back play area again just to take in everything at a slower pace. We returned to the main floor, poured ourselves two glasses of wine at the bar, and hit the buffet table. Within five minutes after we sat down to eat, the owners -- Chris and Annette -- came over and introduced themselves. They were really cordial and said to please ask for them if we had any problems that the staff couldn't handle. So we had been there less than an hour and things were off to a good start.
For the rest of the night, we alternated amongst snacking; wandering around the main floor to see if we could catch anybody's eye and make introductions; and checking out the back to see if we could get a room and/or watch any action. Very few people spoke to us, but we didn't really feel like they were being deliberately unfriendly. We just think that a lot of them know each other and truth be told, we didn't go out of our way to strike up a conversation either. So now we know that next time, we need to take some of the initiative. One man *did* ask me to shake my butt for two women he was with, and another young woman across the room asked me why I stopped doing it so quickly. And the same man caught us later on and thanked me for doing it, telling us he hoped we'd had a good time and would come back. But the fact that we didn't meet anybody didn't put a damper on the night ... we STILL had a blast! We drank a whole bottle of wine; danced with our hands on each others butts; made out in a sort of semi-private room in the corner of the main floor and groped each other (breasts and below the waist) right in front of three other people who were in there. During our makeout session, I even got a hard-on with those other people watching us ... giving me the hope that maybe I won't have performance anxiety the first time we get naked for sex in front of other people. The only disappointing thing was that we never managed to snag a playroom for ourselves -- they were occupied solid from 11:00pm on -- because we REALLY wanted the experience of having sex knowing that people were walking by right outside the door. But we were sufficiently turned on by the whole atmosphere and being so openly "touchy/feely" with each other that when we got back to our hotel at 1:30am, we were rarin' to go and had a great session together.
In conclusion, since we didn't hook up with anybody, I guess we'd have to call this a "swinging" experience ... but we consider the night a success and we're already looking forward to going back. Maybe something will happen on a future visit and we can take the quotes off of "swinging". ;-)
PS We've posted a report about the club itself in the Swinging at Clubs, Socials, and Hotels forum.