Dark Rooms in NYC

[Rickstone]

Travelling to NYC and need suggestion for locations with darkrooms. Experience?

[pubic_assistance]

27 minutes ago, Rickstone said:

need suggestion for locations with darkrooms

Are you planning on developing film ?

[mike carey]

From Wiki:

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Dark rooms were common features of North American gay bars and clubs in the 1960s and 1970s, and can still be found in some bars and sex clubs. A backroom in a gay bar is typically a small, very dark or dimly lit room at the back of the club where customers can go to have sex, usually without undressing.

 

[Rickstone]

I think the correct term is backroom. 😜

[+ Vegas_Millennial]

4 hours ago, Rickstone said:

Travelling to NYC and need suggestion for locations with darkrooms. Experience?

Yes, I have experienced what you described in a few gay bars in Manhattan as recently as last year.  But, I don't want to expose them here, lest the city use the information to crack down on the activity.

I remember my first experience like this in NYC.  I was approached my a young man who was very interested in me; but, alas, I was already sexually satisfied from earlier in the evening and didn't want to travel uptown to my hotel to host him.  So, I said I couldn't host.  He then asked if I ever had sex in a gay bar.  "Not in New York", I replied; then, he led me to where the action happened.

Edited February 13 by Vegas_Millennial

[pubic_assistance]

16 hours ago, Rickstone said:

I think the correct term is backroom. 😜

Exactly.

Never heard anyone call it "darkroom"...although obviously "darkness" is one of the features of a backroom.

[AtticusBK]

I haven’t been in years but I believe The Cock in the E Village is still the best known in NYC.

[pubic_assistance]

1 hour ago, AtticusBK said:

BEST BACKROOMS: The Cock in the E Village is still the best known in NYC.

Edited February 13 by pubic_assistance

[TelaramundItaly]

In Italy we say "darkroom", never backroom

[Colton]

1 hour ago, TelaramundItaly said:

In Italy we say "darkroom", never backroom

I think most places call it a darkroom.  

[pubic_assistance]

7 hours ago, Colton said:

I think most places call it a darkroom.  

That must have lead to some embarrassing moments for photographers booking an hour of dark room use, if they Googled the wrong spot.

[+ ApexNomad]

9 hours ago, TelaramundItaly said:

In Italy we say "darkroom", never backroom

In my bed, we say “makeroom.” 

[Whippoorwill]

In my experience, the guidebooks to Europe call it darkroom; in the US it's more typically backroom. Anyway, as the bard said, "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet". I have had some great times in them. 

[pubic_assistance]

I got my dick sucked at the Discoteca Martín in Barcelona years ago. There's was neither a darkroom nor a backroom but a dark staircase in the back, with about 50 men getting it on.

#stairwaytoheaven

Edited February 14 by pubic_assistance
grammar

[SirBillybob]

On 2/14/2025 at 12:01 AM, pubic_assistance said:

I got my dick sucked at the Discoteca Martín in Barcelona years ago. There's was neither a darkroom nor a backroom but a dark staircase in the back, with about 50 men getting it on.

#stairwaytoheaven

🎵Oh, makes me wonder, with a word he did get what he came for 🎶

[Erick the Origin]