Mineshaft Sexclub, NYC 1976 – 1985

[hungry_hole]

I never got to go to Mineshaft Sexclub in NYC in the late 70's and early 80's. But I heard so many hot stories about this place that I'm sorry I never did go. One night I tried to get to it but couldn't find it. Instead I found a place called "Gloryhole".

Did anyone here ever go to Mineshaft when it was open? Lots of bareback and S&M I heard.

[pointer2play]

I did... and was I clueless. I dressed preppy back then... way too cool in my uniform: cords, Izod and Topsiders. The frat brothers and I would hit the after hour clubs like The Mineshaft, The Anvil, Man's Country and the Toilet. We'd walk the different floors laughing at the Leather boys, the guys laying naked in the bathtubs were to be pitied. ... who wants to be pissed on? We'd end up at the Crisco Disco dancing past sunrise. Drunk and trying to find more snow oblivious to the irony. We said we'd never ff or drink piss. All the while trying to figure out how to dump each other and go watch whatever kink caught our imagination. Ah the good old days of innocence. ...

[spike-the-cat]

Samuel Delany's twisted dark novel "The Man Man" has an 80-page first-person reminiscence of a night in the Mineshaft just before it closed. Horny read.