The Unsexy Dilemma Of Sex Par- Ties

Winter 2025

Once transgressive, organized sex parties have a problem.

AT A SEX PARTY in the Meatpacking District last winter, I left with a surprisingly conservative conviction: that sex parties aren’t actually sexy.

This particular “highly selective, high-end” production I attended with my boyfriend drew about 50 attendees. Most were couples in their 30s and 40s, give or take a decade, who were familiar with the New York “sc...