FOLSOM BERLIN 2009 IN PICTURES

Folsom – the annual Berlin event for leather queens to show off their finery and get more - officially started on Wednesday 2nd but team damaged didn't get going until Thursday when it went to the regular weekly naked sex party at lab.oratory. From there it was Glashaus Arena, Street party, Pig party, Scheune, Bull and Schöneberg. lab.oratory wasn't an official Folsom party but plenty of the visitors had sniffed it out and lab had specially extended the cloakroom and the darkrooms. So it wasn't quite the regular weekly sex party, there was tons more totty around. "Continue reading" for more pictures and story and leave a comment to tell us who your favourite is.

If you don't know lab.oratory and you like a sex party it's a must visit destination in Berlin. It's in the back of Berghain and like Berghain it's built on an industrial scale, but this time for sex. It has countless slings, at least three separate darkrooms, exposed concrete, a piss cellar, lockable cubicles (without toilets), showers, industrial remains suitable for fucking on, a bar, a garden (used on summer Sunday afternoons) and innumerable dark nooks and corners and beds. On this Thursday it was even bigger and better if that is possible. Discodamaged counted over 250 horny gay men there.

Friday was the day of the perverts party in Glashaus Arena. Team damaged sent out a scouting party who only stayed there for half an hour. The venue is badly laid out and does not lend itself to a good time. Our scouts confirmed this and left early.

Saturday is the hugely big day with the street party (Strassen fest) in the afternoon and Pig party in the evening. The street party starts at midday. If you want to do some serious shopping then it's best to get there early because by about 4pm it's rammed. That's when team damaged arrived with official photographer Alexander Huber. You could barely move in the street. The team examined the Quälgeist stall. This had to be the most boring. They just had a couple of calendars and parked bicycle. There were beer stalls a-plenty, but you had to wait about 15 minutes to get served and then pay a 1 or 2€ deposit on the glass. We suffered the queues and deposits, watched the amazing costumes go by and had a good time. It's the perfect place to relax, meet friends, chat and see the latest leather, rubber and fetish fashions. There were even some stunning transvestites about.

The Pig party in the evening was enormous. It was held in the old East German communist party education centre. We wonder what was taught there. We entered with no queue at 12.30am up some short grand stairs. On the right was a huge reception room which served as the cloakroom. Once again there were no queues worth speaking of. In the middle of this room there is a grand circular staircase which led down to the 'multi-dungeon darkroom', more of which later, it lived up to its name. From the entrance there were more grand stairs going up to the bar and the dance floor. The only bad point was that you have to pay for drinks with tokens, which you buy at the bottom of the stairs. And if you don't use them all, there is no refund. So you are supposed to calculate how much you want to drink at the beginning of the evening. Duh! Still, the bar was well served and the dance floor was busy and great: slow techno, very suitable for hunks in leather. You got to the dance floor through rather small doors from the bar and then you descended through banks of cinema chairs to the floor. There was always space for plenty of people and the atmosphere was excellent.

Back to the darkroom downstairs: As said, it was truly multi-dungeon. There were copious troughs for dirty pigs to lie in while other dirty pigs pissed on them. There were glory holes galore. There were 4000 men in there looking for fun. There were total blackout rooms. There were regular 'darkrooms'. There were fisting rooms. It was a pig's paradise to get lost in.

Last but not least, bars in Schöneberg such as Scheune and Bull were often full to overflowing with those who had decided not to go to the big parties.

Bottom line: Even though it's a little expensive for Berlin, it's a great weekend for rubber, leather, fetish queers to father and play.

 
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Leave a comment to tell us who your favourite is.

All photos by Alexander Huber from the street party and there are more on MySpace here:
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewAlbums&friendID=66871684

Comments

[leather addict]

I've got to go for nr 11. Such a sweet face!