L'Impact Bar

L'Impact is one of Paris's most famous gay sex clubs, a strictly naked cruise bar in the Les Halles area of the 2nd arrondissement whose reputation reaches well beyond France. You strip on the ground floor, checking your clothes into a bag at the cloakroom before heading down into classic vaulted Parisian stone cellars where the action unfolds across two levels, doorless cabins, slings, glory holes, a maze, and open cruising areas, with a dimly lit bar and dance space to match. Cruise-and-sex-focused rather than a place to nurse a drink, unpretentious and welcoming to all ages, types, and sizes, it runs a busy calendar of themed nights and is consistently rated among the best cruising spots in the city.