Not in a city like Berlin, not in Berlin’s famous, vibrant and often quite extreme gay scene.įrom the fetish bars in Schöneberg to Lab in Berghain, from heavy, often drug-fuelled orgies in private to casual sex in Ficken 3000 at Hermannplatz, there is hardly another place like the Hauptstadt when it comes to fulfilling sexual desires of any kind. It’s a thing of pleasure for me, and it’s good to know that Berlin is the place I can easily get what I want and, I’d say, really need after years of practice.” The late-twenty-something Italian, who came to Berlin four years ago for work, doesn’t consider his kink to be particularly outlandish. “It just makes me extremely horny and happy – to get golden showers, to be a wet mess, to receive and give. It’s where he’d kick off his weekend, the place to live out his fantasy. Then he’d switch into his PVC gear and head to his destination of choice, Lab.Oratory, Berghain’s own sex club, where Stefano has been a regular for years. He’d start off with a couple beers with friends, and maybe even something else to loosen up the mood.
Stefano’s Friday night routine used to go according to the same ritualised plan. The empty rooms of gay fetish club Böse Buben in Schöneberg, January 2021.
