| First thing is: we have known Danny & Stuart a long time, and no club could have warmer, friendlier hosts. The facilities in the club are excellent, clean, and constantly improving. Danny and Stuart clearly are not shy of investing in their business.
However, what lets this place down is the clientele, rather than the environment or the hosts. We went on Saturday, and were on of only three couples in, with about a dozen single guys. Now, we don't have an issue with single guys per se... in fact that's often what we are looking for, but we quite quickly came to the conclusion that there wasn't particularly anyone in that we fancied, yet were still followed, badgered and surrounded every time we moved from one place to another.
The "chat-up lines" and social approaches were toe-curling when they did come. Seriously: "Can I play with myself and get a closer look at your fanny?!" Oscar Wilde he ain't. It was also amazing how many guys tried the line, "The problem with this club is the idiot single guys..." Reminds me of the old environmental phrase "You're not stuck IN traffic, you ARE traffic..."
We are unlikely to be coming back to SQ for the forseeable, which we are gutted about because we love Danny & Stuart to bits. But the inability of some to read any kind of social signal made the night just too odd... If you have checked a couple out, and can see that they do not have a hair on their bodies, it is unlikely they are going to be attracted to someone that looks like they might well comb their back. If you ask what they are into and they reply "Travel, food, reading and theatre", don't reply, "I meant sexually." They probably knew what you meant, and their vanilla answer was a gentle way of saying "Not interested, thanks."
And finally, as "left-leaning people", we don't need to come to a swingers club to hear people sounding off in the bar area with homophobic nonsense about Pride parades adversely affecting town centre businesses, the scourge of "politically-correct, left-leaning media" or your views on migration, thanks.
Date: 2 November 2015
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