Images from Youtube. A bald German dude, who's perhaps fifty, looks at me perplexed. Given that he has stripped down to a slender thong and a pair of tennis shoes, it is clear that his key-stashing options are somewhat limited. But this is an issue that all attendees of Kinky Gang Bang, a weekly Thursday afternoon sex party at Berlin's notorious Insomnia club, must negotiate.
Clothing with sensible pockets is not welcome at this long-running event, where naked, fuck-happy Berliners meet up to knock boots with each other to a varied musical soundtrack from the early afternoon until late at night.
Fortunately, there is a secure cloakroom facility run by a friendly attendant and her dog Peepee. It's only 3pm, but as I ascend the staircase and enter the main room the place is already busy, with around twenty guys hanging around nursing bottled beer, as yet too diffident to approach the group of girls in underwear laid on a huge bed in the centre of the dance floor.
It's an impressive spaceβa former 19th century ballroom with high-ceilings that's been carefully renovated to its current incarnation as Berlin's premier palace of fuck.
A massive disco ball hangs low. On the huge screen that overlooks the floor, a video of a woman licking ejaculate from her lips plays. Text informs us that the movie is "DP Fanatics Volume 5. There are bowls with condoms in them dotted around everywhere. Red strip lights show the way upstairs where a buffet is available all afternoon battered chicken, mashed potato and cheesecake. A helpful sign marks this epicurean space out as a "No Fuck Area.
