PARIS
Make the City of Light your City of Lust.
Drink Fuck Shake Buy Crash Eat Pump Trim Ink Hang See Plan
Hot-spot neighborhoods: 1st, 3rd, 4th, 11th [Paris is known for its 20 numbered districts known as arrondissements. Le Marais, the heart of gay Paris, straddles the 3rd and 4th arrondissements.]
WHERE TO DRINK (AND CRUISE)
Bears’ Den (6 rue des Lombard, 4th) Paris’s leather-friendly bear bar. link
Cox (15 rue des Archives, 4th) Leather-friendly bar with an extremely popular happy hour and very hot hommes. link
Duplex (25 rue Michel le Comte, 3rd) Very fetish-friendly bar in the northern part of Le Marais.) link
Full Metal (40 rue des Blanc Manteaux, 4th) A bar with dark rooms and private cabins and a fetish dress code. link
Le Mensch (34 rue Charlot, 3rd) Popular leather bar in the northern part of Le Marais with an underground play space equipped with a sling and fuck benches. link
One Way (28 rue Charlot, 3rd) This bar for manly men has a large darkroom downstairs. link
Quetzal Bar (10 rue de la Verrerie, 4th) Leather-friendly and just plain friendly bar in Le Marais. link
Secteur X (49 rue des Blancs Manteaux, 4th) Proudly sleazy sex bar in Le Marais. link
WHERE TO FUCK
Les Bains d’Odessa (5 rue d’Odessa, 14th) Bears at the baths in the shadow of the Tour Montparnasse. link
Boxxman (2 rue de la Cossonnerie, 1st) Leather and sex boutique near Les Halles with a sex club in the basement. link
Bunker (150 rue Saint-Maur, 11th) Fully equipped sex club near Place de la République. link
Euro Men’s Club (10 rue Saint-Marc, 2nd) Where the Daddies are. link
Gym Louvre (7 rue du Louvre, 1st) You won’t find Mona Lisa or Venus de Milo at this bathhouse and gym. link
IDM Sauna (4 rue du Faubourg Montmartre, 9th) Bathhouse with live sex shows. link
L’Impact (18 rue Greneta, 2nd) Sex club with a bar, near Le Marais. Weekly leather night. link
Le Keller (14 rue Keller, 11th) Fully equipped fetish sex club near Bastille with theme nights. Popular with fisters. link
Key West (141 rue la Fayette, 10th) Bathhouse near Gare du Nord. link
Krash (12 rue Simon Le Franc, 4th) Sex club with a bar in Le Marais. link
Le Riad (184 rue des Pyrénées, 20th) Small Arabian-themed bathhouse not all that far from Oscar Wilde’s tomb in Père Lachaise Cemetery. link
Sauna Mykonos (71 rue des Martyrs, 18th) Bathhouse adjacent to the infamous Place Pigalle. link
Sun City (62 Blvd de Sébastopol, 3rd) Very popular multi-level bathhouse and gym. link
WHERE TO SHAKE YOUR ASS (AND CRUISE)
Le Dépôt (10 rue aux Ours, 3rd) Club for dancing and heavy cruising with weekly fetish night. Conveniently located on “Bears Street”. link
WHERE TO BUY GEAR
BMC store (21 rue des Lombards, 4th) Sex shop in Le Marais. link
Boxxman (2 rue de la Cossonnerie, 1st) Leather and sex boutique near Les Halles with a sex club in the basement. link
IEM (16 rue Sainte-Croix de la Bretonnerie, 4th) Real nasty sex and leather shop. link
Les Dessous d’Appolon (8 rue de Moussy, 4th) A “megastore” stocked with underwear, sexy fashions, and fetish wear. link
Rex (42 rue de Poitou, 3rd) Leather and sex shop in the northern part of Le Marais. link
WHERE TO CRASH (AND MAYBE FUCK SOME MORE)
L’Hotel (13 rue des Beaux Arts, 6th) Luxury hotel in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Stay where the exiled Oscar Wilde lived out his last days. link
Hôtel Anya (5 Psge Viallet, 11th) No-frills hotel popular with fisters heading to Le Keller. link
Hôtel Le Bellechasse (8 rue de Bellechasse, 7th) Boutique property on the Rive Gauche near the Musée d’Orsay. link
Hôtel de la Bretonnerie (22 rue Sainte-Croix de la Bretonnerie, 4th) Highly regarded hotel in a mansion in Le Marais. link
Hôtel Caron de Beaumarchais (12 rue Vieille-du-Temple, 4th) Charming digs in the center of Le Marais. link
Hôtel Costes (239-241 rue Saint-Honoré, 1st) Hip luxury property on the always fashionable Rue Saint-Honoré. link
Hôtel International Paris (6 rue Auguste Barbier, 11th) Gay-friendly hotel in the 11th. link
Hôtel Lenox Montparnasse (15 rue Delambre, 14th) Gay-friendly boutique hotel in the heart of the Rive Gauche. link
Hôtel de Nemours (8 rue Nemours, 11th) Gay-friendly hotel in the 11th. link
Hôtel Verlain (97 rue Saint-Maur, 11th) Gay-friendly hotel in the 11th. link
Pavillon de la Reine (28 Pl des Vosges, 3rd) Luxury boutique hotel on the exquisite Place des Vosges. link
WHERE TO EAT (AND CRUISE)
4pat (4 rue Saint-Merri, 4th) Fun, campy spot in Le Marais. link
Au Cœur du Marais (56 rue des Archives, 4th) Popular casual spot “in the heart of Le Marais”. link
Jaja (3 rue Sainte-Croix de la Bretonnerie, 4th) Très gay chichi spot in Le Marais with courtyard seating. link
JoEric (47 rue des Trois Bornes, 11th) Gay restaurant serving traditional cuisine française. link
Legay Choc (45 rue Sainte-Croix de la Bretonnerie, 4th) Possibly the world’s gayest bakery. Come for the dick-shaped bread. Stay for the croissants. link
Les Marroniers (18 rue des Archives, 4th) Super-gay bistro in Le Marais. link
Le Petit Prince de Paris (12 rue de Lanneau, 5th) Gay-friendly upscale spot in the Quartier Latin. link
Who’s (14 rue Saint-Merri, 4th) Chilled-out spot for food and drinks in Le Marais. link
WHERE TO PUMP IRON (AND CRUISE)
CMG Sports Club One Palais-Royal (2 rue du Faubourg de Temple, 1st) Popular, cruisy gym near the Louvre. link
CMG Sports Club One République (147 rue Saint-Honoré, 11th) Fully equipped gay-friendly gym with a pool. link
WHERE TO GET A BUZZ CUT AND BEARD TRIM
Original Barbershop (56 rue du Temple, 4th) Even if a hip, retro barber shop with a handlebar moustache logo isn’t the most”original,” this shop in Le Marais leaves its customers quite satisfied. link
WHERE TO GET INKED
Abraxas (9 rue Saint-Merri, 4th) Where to get beautiful body art in Le Marais. link
WHO TO HANG WITH
ASMF Club for French Leathermen and fetish men and organizer of Mister Leather France. link
BLUF Paris For men into full dress leather uniform. link
Freedmen A new club for men into all sorts of fetishes and kinks. link
WHAT TO SEE WHILE YOU’RE IN TOWN
L’Artère – jardin des dessins (Parc de la Villette, 19th) “The Artery – drawing garden”–an art installation made up of 16,000 tiles–is a tribute to the warriors in the fight against AIDS. link
WHAT TO PLAN FOR
May/June
Paris Fetish France’s sexiest weekend of the year! [Not taking place in 2024. It will return in 2025.] link
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