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PostPosted: Fri Mar 04, 2016 1:49 pm 
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The Power Exchange is an on-premises fetish and sex club located at 220 Jones Street in downtown San Francisco. The Power Exchange, which has been around for many years, has closed and reopened in different locations a number of times. It was forced to move out of its Otis Street address when the building landlord went bankrupt, then, moved to 34 Mason Street. Apparently, the Fire Department and activists then again forced it's closure. It now has it's home on Jones Street. Although it has a dungeon, it doesn't seem to be oriented exclusively towards D/s/BDSM play as much as it is about swinging and open sex; however, the dungeon is open to anyone who might like to watch others engage in S&M paly. The reviews back then as well as today (see links below) confirm that the club is a venue for both exhibitionists to enjoy being watched, and for voyeurs that enjoy watching.

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As a disclaimer, I've never been there. But over they years I've been reading about it, and what made it appropriate for a CFNM board were reviews written during it's previous location(s). At the time it had a rule - single females were, of course, given a nominal fee to enter with couples a bit higher. However, single men were given a significantly higher entry cost unless they agreed to strip naked and enter wearing only a towel. This different nudity standard for men versus women pulled the environment towards a CFNM one. They never published the reason for this, although I surmise it was to keep the number of male gawkers out such that only naked men were granted admittance. Accordingly, I read reviews back in those days where the women going described a classic CFNM environment - the women, who all had a very low entry cost, typically remain clothed whereas most of the men remained naked.

However, upon looking at the website today, I could not find that the tiered pricing for men showing an incentive for male nudity like the good old days. The reviews on Yelp are both horrible and great, with the preponderance of younger attractive females (see their photos in link below) trending towards 1-star. It seems clear that the male-to-female ratio is very high; however, I've never been in a sex club or erotic/nudist venue that allows single males that was different. A couple of the females comment about how men will sit in the nude jacking off for others to watch, and, some of the females were perturbed when men would offer them the opportunity to watch them masturbate.

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Power Exchange - Yelp Reviews

One of the females (Miss Kae O) that gave this club a high rating put things into perspective, and I think it relates to all such reviews for the other venues in this forum. She basically calls it as it is - this is an open sex club. Many people that aren't into that want to just go see what it's like, then are turned completely off...not necessarily because of the club itself, but what goes on. In addition, it IS San Francisco, and, there WILL be a lot of men at any sex club that allows single men. For this reason, a number of the heterosexual men that go expecting to have an orgy with women, yet encounter numerous naked men masturbating, write scathing reviews even calling it a "gay" hangout (btw, in San Fran, a gay man needs not go to a heterosexual club for action - there are tons of venues specifically for gays). Alternatively, the fact that there are many reviews by attractive younger women that have gone and clearly did not disrobe, and, the fact that it appears to be acceptable, appropriate and common for any guy to be nude and be masturbating when in the presence of those women, it clearly experiences extreme CFNM activity, albeit sometimes not a happy ending for both the male exhibitionists and the female voyeurs.

It is what it is. Again, I've never been, so if anyone wants to share a first-hand review (uh, no pun intended) please do so.

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 18, 2017 12:53 pm 
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Brad wrote:
Again, I've never been, so if anyone wants to share a first-hand review (uh, no pun intended) please do so.

As I write this, there are 53 Yelp! reviews, and they're so all-over-the-board, they net at two and one-half stars. The one thing that's agreed on is the crowd is overwhelmingly male ("Men walk behind you with their penis in hand acting like sex starved animals! ").

The review that made me shake my head (and I'm still wondering if he's pulling our leg and I fell for it) is the one from the poor dope who apparently had never heard the term "power exchange" before and assumed this was just the place for a corporate meeting for his accounting firm (and we all know how wild the green-eye-shade boys are):

"A couple months ago, my Director at the accounting firm I work at asked me to organize our annual corporate team building activity. I've been really working hard to get a promotion and thought that this was my big chance to impress! I've heard many people muttering around the water cooler about how they feel like they could 'do a better job than half the managers in this company.' I thought exchanging the power dynamics among my fellow office dwellers would be a great way for all of us to experience a new position. After a brief google/yelp search I figured the Power Exchange sounded like the perfect place..."

Needless to say, the big boys were aghast and the poor slob got fired.


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I've attended the Power Exchange many years ago a couple of times.

First time was with a lady I had just met through an ad and she was looking for a ride from my area to the PE. It was a week night, things were extremely slow and there was really no connection developed between her and I but it was intriguing so I returned on a Friday night some time later.

Those were the days a single male could get in for minimum charges if he stripped and wore only a towel.

That night it was hopping but all couples and single males. A fair amount of action to watch but the males would pretty much crowd around any action to the point of scaring off the couple and blocking the view of all others.

There was a room very dimly lit where a lot was going on but it was too scary for me so slipped into one of the several open rooms and played with myself and occasionally a couple would peek in and make a few comments but not really much thrill there.
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Found a couple of rooms to hang out in, one of them with porno on and sit down on the towel and watched while keeping myself hard.

A VERY attractive sit down with me and offered to go to a private room and play. But her deep voice raised all my alarms and after politely inquiring she did confirm that she was a guy in drag. Dam, didn't know a guy could get prettied up so well.

We chatted awhile and once she was convinced I wasn't going to take a trip on the wild side she wandered off.

While it wasn't a bad evening, there was nothing there that made me want to go back. I did get to spend the evening naked and quite a few women (all couples) saw me I didn't get any of the thrill of being naked like at the Exotic Erotic Ball or Folsom Street Fair.


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