Kinky Salon has been around for a long time but we’d never been because they tell people they have to dress up. The theme of our first visit was jungle night; almost all the men were wearing some variant of the pith helmet thing. The women weren’t awfully jungly, but something sexy generally suffices. Our apprehension about having to dress up was misplaced.
The advertised difference between Kinky Salon and Club Kiss (located in the same venue) is that Kiss is screened for attractive people and as a result it tends to be populated by superficially better looking people who are a bit more overtly exhibitionist and pretty much everybody is there to have sex most of the night. Kinky Salon is much more of a social experience and many people are not there to have sex at all, rather to be with friends in a comfortable environment. The attendees are not bad looking, but even in the play rooms there may be more people socializing than actually doing it.
Those that do engage in sex acts are a bit less in the mode of doing show-off sex than at more sex-oriented sex-clubs where they tend position themselves such that the genitals are visible. I don’t think I saw anyone else’s genitals all night…
There were several female couples there, which is very unusual for a nominally straight sex club, but kinky salon is actively gay friendly. Gay male clubs and straight clubs are very rarely integrated for complex psychological issues that have everything to do with straight male insecurities. While there may be some gay men at kinky salon, a friend who goes just about every week says she’s only seen a few male gay couples and they usually don’t come back. Then again, with all the options gay males have and most overtly catering to their needs, a straight club could seem uptight and boring and pretty pointless.
Gay women seem less well served by the community and the effectively zero pressure fun party atmosphere seems like it would be pretty comfortable; still single females are rare and female couples rarer still. Like every US club, there seems to be nearly zero spontaneous interaction between people who don’t know each other already, though as always, a receptive female can have as many males or couples as she’s interested in.