Naughty Paris

Paris' most famous fetish club, Cris et Chuchotements, is closed from November 1-22 for renovations. There will be a grand reopening party on November 23. Do call before heading up there...we all know how building projects stay on schedule here in France!
The next Slave Auction party will be December 1.

Lady Carolyn celebrated her 25th birthday (again) last week. Practice makes perfect, I always say! A pile of us gathered at a new bar/resto in the 19th near Belleville called Le Ventre de l'Architecte (Rue Burnouf) about two hours before the lady in question decided to make her grand entrance. Note to the girls: getting one's hair done is always an excellent excuse for being late -- especially since it gives everyone the chance to immediately compliment your new 'do.

Are all of those chocolate hearts and sappy cards making you malade? *

Head over to OPA (9 rue Biscornet, 11th, M° Bastille or Ledru Rollin) for the Soirée Valentin Musiques Secrètes by Gutaï Records, featuring vintage porn film clips from the early 20th century accompanied by "mystical and orgasmic" improvised music. I can't imagine how this won't be a good laugh! February 14, 8pm-2am. No cover.

* Interesting note: "vomit" is the same in French and English (pronounced vo-mee' in French)

Heather with Charlie (from Ireland) and Rachel (from England) at Paris-Paris.

Not every bar-club in Paris provides good hunting for ladies on the prowl, but Paris-Paris is definitely one of them. I met these young expats while waiting for the doors to open for the Who Made Who concert February 7. I heard them speaking English and asked if they came for the club or the band. They'd heard there was a good band playing, but had never heard them nor ever been to the club. Brave girls! But they didn't know they'd get in faster by asking to be put on "the list" in advance, so when it came time to go in I told the bouncer they were with me, et voila!

We got ourselves some strong cocktails from the bar (€10 each for mostly liquor in you cocktail). Rachel flirted shamelessly with the barman and ended up getting a few more free ones later on. I knew I'd like these ladies! We danced up a storm during the concert, and by 3am I was getting sleepy (should've ordered an espresso martini) so I thought I'd get their take on the male "talent" in the crowd before I headed off. But lo and behold, Charlie and Rachel were already exchanging phone numbers with some fine looking Frenchmen. Bravo, Naughty Girls!

Madame Gentry Lane on the left, checking out the merchandise, and Heather in the background, trying to maintain eye contact!

We thought it apropo to begin our Naughty Paris blog with a bit of eye candy from last week’s Salon International de la Lingerie (it’s the lingerie “Prêt-à-Porter”, if you will). Carolyn and I were lucky enough to be able to spy on this industry-only event by posing as assistants/slaves for Gentry de Paris.

For four days we behaved ourselves as the trail of lingerie models – male and female – paraded by. But on the last day we decided to do a little research (for the book, of course) and ask one of the male specimens if he ever had any, er, “proposals” from the women at the show. Carolyn chased down this sexy cowboy (you can’t see it here, but he’s wearing boots) and was halfway through her very tactful question in French when, quelle surprise, it turns out he’s a compatriot from good ol’ Canada!

What we gathered from our research:

Jordan is 23, models exclusively for Ginch Gonch (who are, BTW, always looking for new male models…check out their site), and is the only straight guy I’ve ever met who makes the appropriate effort to remove excess body hair.

As for any indecent proposals at the show, according to Jordan: “Lots of women spoke to me, but I don’t understand French so I just smiled.”

(Don’t worry, ladies, we’ll send him a copy of Naughty Paris so he can learn some of the important French phrases from our “Sexy Vocabulary” chapter!)