Sydney Loses Beloved “Suckatorium” In Suspicious Fire
The Den, a gay sex shop in Sydney’s Darlinghurst neighborhood, was devastated by an unexplained blaze on Thursday, causing sections of busy Oxford Street to be blocked off and nearly 50 people to be evacuated.
Above, the owner tells news cameras how it went down:
“I was speaking to the employee at that shop and I thought he said, ‘I can smell shit.’ And I go, I said, ‘No shit, it’s a gay back room,’” And he said. “And he goes, ‘No, I smell smoke.” I said, ‘You’d better go check that out.’ And then, before I knew it, the whole fucking thing’s on fire, they’ve blocked the roads.”
After mentioning how he parked illegally and will now get “another fucking parking ticket,” the tattooed proprietor lovingly describes his fortress of fornication:
“It sells dildos, butt plugs, fucking anal beads, but the main business is it’s a gay sauna,” he said. “They pay ten dollars and they get those big screens with pornos and they get to fuck each other. There’s a suckatorium, you put your cock in a hole and some guy sucks you off. This is not a fucking joke, this is how it goes. This is the world of the gays.”
You can really feel the love he has for his work.
Source: Jezebel
It’s been a gay haunt for many years. Before it’s present incarnation, it was a
really swinging place and not the dump it has later turned out to be. I think the
fire is a good thing. Gay men deserve something better than this cheap and nasty
establishment. So long as no-one was hurt, good riddance. Maybe something better
will take its place, but I doubt it. The patrons of the establishment will have
to stay home and wank now.
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I worked at this place 16 years ago when I’d just moved to Sydney and needed a job fast, lol; it’s a really big 2 storey complex, not that seedy and quite homely for some guys. Usually junkies and drug fucked people would drop cigarette butts or lit matches onto the floor and set fire to booth’s (lots of tissues laying around). Normally the fire could be extinguished, however obviously not in this case, sadly. No conspiracy here, although there is a lot of competition along the strip with at least ten big sex clubs and bath houses I doubt they’d resort to setting fire to a competitors premises.
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To quote Flip Wilson (or was it Geraldine?) “Ever’body gotta be someplace”. Different strokes for different folks.
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That “this is the world of the gays” comment makes me want to go celibate.
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I am sure the right-wingers in USA will pick up on the last quote, as if every single gay person spends every weekend in a bath house.
Of course, there are similar places where straights go to have sex. I hear they even have women who will sell themselves for money. Does that mean that every single straight person spends every weekend at a whore house? Does it mean that every single straight man buys a hooker every week, or that every single straight women will prostitute herself?
The parallels are, I am sure, lost on the anti-gay evangelists.
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There’s been a misunderstanding; the guy in the clip is NOT the manager of the place that burnt down; he’s a passer-by on the strip. He’s not actually being homophobic, imo, just putting how he perceives the situation into words that he understands. He has a good knowledge of gay sex clubs, obviously being a native of the strip.
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If he is the owner, he sounds every bit as classy as his establishment.
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I would sooner get water-boarded in a truck stop off of the intersection to hell than walk into a Bathhouse.
Let alone take part in the activities.
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Not everyone that’s LGBT goes to public sex places or has sex in adult bookstores, porn theaters (when they were around), or goes to bath houses.
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This Leb wanker is a straight homophobe high on crac talking shit & jokers believe every word he says…cos how would he know what goes on behind those doors, cos his girlfriend doesnt know he’s on the downlow…dumb dickhead!
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LebWanker-Please, everyone even straight people know what goes on in adult bookstores. Don’t be naive.
In my town there’s an adult bookstore and everyone knew what went on there, and I remember being as young as 10 or 11 and having my fellow male friends and peers say that men went there to have sex with other men.
That doesn’t mean that the guy is somehow on the down low or closeted just because he knows that it’s a public sex venue for bisexual and gay men.
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He could be a cute guy but I wouldn’t touch him with a ten foot pole cuz he seems cracked out, over-sexed and he shaves his armpits to boot. This is what hard living does to people. His looks will be kaput in no time.
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Yep Annie you can make fun of gays and what they do, but here in Nevada we have place just for you. It’s called a brothel. All the Mormon women send they husbands there so they don’t have to deal with them.
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no, it’s not “the gays”.
i’m about as likely to visit a place like this as my mother is; and if she *does* go it’ll be with a mop a bucket and some bleach.
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The world of the gays? Give me a fucking break. Maybe the world of sleazeballs who like the smell of dried sperm on a filthy vinyl floor. Describes about 90% of Sydney’s Darlinghurst community….
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Working on the front desk there for a few weeks was interesting, to say the least, however a lot of guys actually hang out there socially, strangely enough. The junkies and meth addicts were the ones who’d start the fires usually because they were so out of it. Fortunately sex clubs in Sydney have to comply with strict fire codes so no problem evacuating the place, unless someone overdosed. The demographic was basically gay guys from everywhere; the inner city folk tended to get bored of these places after a few months. The guy in the clip was just some crack head who I don’t actually think is being homophobic, funnily enough. He’s probably bi I suspect.
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If he was inside talking to an employee, he’s probably been inside doing other things. I’m sure he thinks he’s done a good job of proving his het cred, but straight men don’t shave under their arms–or hang around sex clubs.
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It’s neat how the snobs here are so clairvoyant. They know all about what these places are like, without ever having been there! Amazing how that works.
Well back when I was single I went to places like that occasionally. But I’ll agree that this is NOT really “the world of the gays,” at least in the U.S. ones I saw. The clientele seemed to be mostly macho, immigrant types who didn’t identify (yet) with gay culture or know much of anything about it; they were just horny guys hoping for a bj. Also the places were fairly clean & I never saw ANY signs of drug activity (or even the forbidden tobacco – yay American anti-smoking zealotry!) which is more than I could say about many ’90s gay bars. I’m surprised to hear Australia is so much more casual about that stuff, you can’t allow smoking in theaters (of any type), it leads to fires – duh.
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Smoking was not allowed in the Den. That doesn’t stop guys lighting up in the closed booths. The clientele was “older” (including myself!) but occasionally younger guys would meet up in The Midnight Shift next door and go into the Den for some private sex. while it will be a loss to these clients, I still stand by my earlier remarks. I still prefer its earlier existence in the ’80s and early ’90s.
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Where did you guys get the idea the fire was started from a cigarette?
The story didn’t mention it! The fire was deliberately lit!
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If I was the insurance company I’d look long and hard at the causes. So many fires in that part of Oxford Street over the years indicate fraudulent insurance claims are the go. Who remembers Capriccio’s? Trouble is when a venue is lost or closed they are often not replaced. There is a need for such places, but not like the sleazy, grubby Den.
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As always, when there’s a story around this area about a fire or meth lab explosion or anthying to do with the gay underworld, police say ‘investigations are under way’ – But I BET, we never hear anything more about it!!
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ah nope…. I’m just referring to a couple of specific cases that have been in the news in past couple of years.
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“”This is not a fucking joke, this is how it goes. This is the world of the gays.””
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No, this is the world of this place, love it or hate it. Just like looking in a doorway and seeing a dope sick hooker going down on some guy isn’t “The world of straights.” and neither is seeing virginal girls walking to their next Bible Study class. This guy doesn’t seem to get that people can make some life choices. Sheesh.