[Las Vegas] Green Door Review
My Plaything and I were there last Thursday night and I wanted to get this down before the memory faded.
Ah Green Door. You and I have a complicated relationship but after half a dozen visits I think we've found our groove. On the surface it's easy to dismiss the Green Door as a vaguely creepy maze of dark corners, sex rooms and masturbating single guys looking to inject themselves into our fun. However, if you can look past that, it's really a sprawling labyrinth of potential.
The Green Door is located in a mostly-abandoned strip mall next to a bar of some kind and acres of empty parking lot in front of it. On the approach, there's typically a few guys standing around smoking out front. I'm not sure if they are bouncers or patrons and we've never stopped to ask. Walking inside there's a small lobby with a receptionist/bouncer person who helpfully lets you know how many couples are currently inside. It's a helpful touch because as a couple ourselves it's nice to know the odds of connecting with another couple. They don't mention the number of single guys because they are legion. We paid our entry fee (that is heavily marked up for out of towners) and walked in.
The entry way on the ground floor opens up into a room with a pool table, a shuffle board and a stripper pole in the middle and I've never seen anyone using any of the three. This downstairs area leads off to a couple of different play rooms and a hot tub room, plus a couples-only area. On a Thursday night the place was pretty dead and we've seen the biggest crowds on a Saturday night with maybe a dozen couples and a bunch of single guys trying to get with the women. The couples areas are interesting and each room as some kind of theme or featuring some kind of sex-furniture. In this room there's a throne to sit on and be serviced, in that room, there's some glory holes set up in a free-standing partition, in another room a large black padded space of moisture-resistant material (vinyl?).
But if you walk back to the entrance, there's a side stairway that leads to the upstairs, and that's where we were headed. The staircase ends in a bar-type room that sells drinks and snacks with corridors in various directions leading off to still more rooms- there are exhibitionist/voyeur booths, another large play space with a big vinyl-wrapped mattress, a bathroom with showers, a side room with a gynecologist's reclining exam chair with stirrups, and a dungeon.
And the Dungeon room is why we are here. This area has a stripper pole in the middle and along the walls are various benches, posts, chairs, eyelets sunk into walls. Pretty much anything you'd want to strap someone down and have a BDSM session. Our favorite is the pair of Saint Andrew's Crosses along one wall to which I strap my Plaything and put on a show for the folks nearby.
What's strange about the Green Door is very few couples actually participate in group sex activities. We've never swapped and rarely get to play with any couples there and I have a philosophy that the couples that pay a visit to the Green Door do so based on its reputation as a sex club but do so only to be able to titter behind a modest hand, "Tee-hee! Tee-hee! We went to a sex club in Vegas." Omitting the fact that they did not actually DO anything other than watch other people have sex or maybe have sex with each other.
But we like to put on a show: I blindfold my Plaything and we do some impact play while the crowd gathers and the single guys start to approach, some with their dicks already out, hoping to get lucky. We've had some light play with couples and some of the men this way, allowing them to caress and fondle my Plaything and allowing me to flog and fondle the women in return. It's fun playing for the crowd and crowd participation is polite and friendly most of the time with the occasional asshole for whom you have to be on the lookout. Our scene goes for a while, and I suspect it's most people's first exposure to a BDSM scene because I get asked lots of questions and it's satisfying to get people away from "50 Shades" ideas of a D/s relationship. Eventually we've had enough and move to a side room with a big bed and a chaise-longue on which we come down, do aftercare and eventually have sex.
My main gripe with the Green Door is that it has too many rooms and too many nooks for the size of crowd it gathers. In a swinging environment there needs to be a center of gravity that draws the different couples together to meet, establish chemistry and have sex, and the Green Door's layout is so maze-like and sprawling that it's easy to get lost and serves to keep the crowd scattered across the myriad rooms. Plus the amount of single guys lurking in every corner can be intimidating if you aren't ready for it.
Honestly, we go to Green Door just to put on a BSDM scene on the Saint Andrew's Cross and maybe connect with other couples. We have a ton of fun in the Dungeon room, and will keep coming back to play, but if we aren't in the mood to do a scene there's no way we'd go there, probably going to Whispers, Playhouse, Sea Mountain or even Red Rooster instead.