Berlin, hot on the trail!

Dec. 04 2013

by Laurence Ogiela / TÊTU

Berlin has a sex party calendar that would make the Marquis de Sade green with envy and remains a hot spot for the world's gay leather and fetish scene.

The epicenter of the hot nights is in the historic gay district of Schöneberg around Nollendorfplatz, although there are also good sex clubs in Mitte or Friedrichshain.

Motzstrasse and Fuggerstrasse, already a refuge for gays in the 1920s, are full of leather bars, fetish scenes and erotic stores. In September, the district takes on the air of Castro during the Folsom Europe, the European leather festival. The streets are filled with bulging muscles and sweaty latex, bursting with testosterone.

If you miss it, you can make up for it with the Rubber & Fetish weekend in October. Indoors this time! But it's still a good opportunity to get out your chaps and studded belts... and to brush up on your German.

Another highly anticipated weekend, the HustlaBall Berlin in October. And Easter in Berlin, Leather & Fetish Meeting during the big Easter weekend.

And, every weekend, the KitKat Club (Köpenickerstrasse 76) and other leather scene venues offer decadent parties as only Berlin can.

Finally, if you're looking for something to do in uniform, there's nothing like a trip to one of the city's many flea markets, which are full of more or less authentic souvenirs from the former GDR.

Find our gay Berlin hot spots on the next page

Here is the list of our favorite gay hot spots in Berlin:

Connection
One of the hottest dance clubs in the neighborhood. DJs upstairs, busy darkrooms in the basement
Fuggerstrasse 33.

Apollo-Splash-Club
Berlin's largest gay sauna open non-stop on weekends
Kurfürstenstrasse 101.

The Jaxx
both a sex shop and a sex club. The store leads to a hot pick-up area in the basement.
Motzstrasse 19.

Scheune
One of the oldest and most popular fetish bars in the neighborhood. Very, very hard atmosphere.
Motzstrasse 25.

Lab.Oratory
in Friedrichshain, behind the famous Panorama Bar. A dungeon worthy of the most unbridled fantasies. Berlin's newest sex club and perhaps the best address in town.
Am Wriezener Bahnhof.

(Photos © Laurence Ogiela)