'Sex Club' - looking for settings for the following idea

[SteelPoint]

Is anyone able to offer a different setting for this?

I've finished constructing a short story in which an amateur choir is the backdrop for a sex club type situation. It comes about when, out of this mixed voice choir of c30 members, a small group of c4-5 each men and women realise that they fancy each other.

They start up an 'inner' group claiming to be practising, say, acapella style on a different week night from the main choir. In fact, they make use of one of their group's large house to have free sex both with each other in individual rooms or together orgy-style.

The story revolves around the discovering of this situation by a suspicious spouse.

A choir seems to me to be very appropriate as a setting but I'd be interested to know whether there are other thoughts. I guess I'm really thinking of hobbies and leisure activities.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

A choir actually is a good idea as it can have both boys and girls in fair numbers. Some classes might be the same. Maybe co-ed sports of some sort?

 

[Salacious_Scribe]

Coed softball team (Bat boy, Ball girl, base running etc...)

Track team (Lots of stamina, go the distance)

Bowling league (Fingering holes, shared balls)

Theater group, (Key grip, lots of drama)

 

[SteelPoint]

To clarify on a couple of points.

Firstly, I'm thinking of adults here rather than teenagers or 'college' students.

Secondly, I'd be looking for a setting which a small group could use for its own purposes without the knowledge of the majority.

 

[SteelPoint]

Coed softball team (Bat boy, Ball girl, base running etc...)

Track team (Lots of stamina, go the distance)

Bowling league (Fingering holes, shared balls)

Theater group, (Key grip, lots of drama)

Yes, the bowling club or theatre group would be fine. Thanks for that

 

[Carnevil9]

Chess Club - lots of brainy people, plenty of puns available.

Tuesday Night Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. People with addictive personalities, looking for something to do with their hands and mouths other than drinking.

Theater group (already mentioned) has the added benefit of lots of gay and bisexual characters.

 

[SteelPoint]

I've now had a few more suggestions via PM, for which I'm grateful. Another which has occurred to me is something like an amateur art group. They could have weekly meetings where they all attempt a particular theme and then discuss each other's work.

The action I have in mind leads on from one particular week where they attempt their own versions of a 'life', i.e. nude study...

 

[sheltering]

Astronomy class goes stargazing and camping~

 

[ericrodman101]

It's a creative writing group who get into erotica. If it's anything like the writing groups I've attended, people question whether things are written accurately and want to act them out. Things like the way people stand when they're addressing each other, can they touch and reach in the way described, can they do two things at once, and so on. With erotic scenarios, acting them out may be the only way to make sure they work.

 

[Salacious_Scribe]

It's a creative writing group who get into erotica. If it's anything like the writing groups I've attended, people question whether things are written accurately and want to act them out. Things like the way people stand when they're addressing each other, can they touch and reach in the way described, can they do two things at once, and so on. With erotic scenarios, acting them out may be the only way to make sure they work.

Did you hack my Google Drive? I had finished writing a synopsis almost identical to this a few days ago.

Then again, I used a disagreement over body position in a story in Donny and Marie to get the MC's to get intimate for the first time.

 

[Magineer]

Have been giving this one a bit of thought and it seems to me the problem is how exactly the "spark" would be provided in the context of a choir. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a small group starts making plans to have sex?

I think you need to have a situation where the thoughts of people might turn automatically or naturally to physicality. The idea I've come up with is swimming - maybe a swimming or water polo club? - where people are already half naked and have the opportunity to "inspect the goods" regularly.

I understand there are such things as mixed water polo clubs, although with only seven to a team you might have trouble with numbers. Maybe a club could have three or four teams..?

 

[SimonDoom]

A running group could work well, because such groups can consist of large coed adult groups, full of people wearing skimpy clothing, and it's plausible that a subset could go running off into the woods or bushes or some other special place together.

 

[CuttingEdge]

Have been giving this one a bit of thought and it seems to me the problem is how exactly the "spark" would be provided in the context of a choir. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a small group starts making plans to have sex?

I think you need to have a situation where the thoughts of people might turn automatically or naturally to physicality. The idea I've come up with is swimming - maybe a swimming or water polo club? - where people are already half naked and have the opportunity to "inspect the goods" regularly.

I understand there are such things as mixed water polo clubs, although with only seven to a team you might have trouble with numbers. Maybe a club could have three or four teams..?

You could build off that, where a man and women, talk about their teenager years and the man describes how he went skinny dipping back then. The woman (maybe the wife of another man) says she did back then too, and they hatch a plan to go skinny dipping up at the old quarry. It is utterly scandalous, they are wed, but not together, and yet to relive their youthful zeal, they do it.

Someone spills the beans on what happened, or sees them there accidentally, and soon more in the group join in. It starts out as feelings of naked youthfulness, but then turns to feelings for each other.

That could be described as I have, in a paragraph, or over the course of several chapters.

Again...building off what you said, and just a possibility.

 

[SteelPoint]

Grateful for these various recent thoughts.

Magineer, I take your point entirely that the 'spark' is a difficult problem in the OP description. I've already written the story - my way around it was to present it to the reader as a 'fait accompli' - the sub-set has already formed (without explanation as to how) and the plot revolves around it being discovered.

This is almost certainly cheating, I realise, but it's something which the short story format lends itself to very easily!

 

[Magineer]

Yes, it is a bit of a cheat but I can see how a short story can do away with the need for explaining every last detail.

Talking of "cheating", I'm assuming your story, as written, involves all the members of this inner group cheating on their partners, some of whom may actually be in the main membership of the choir?

My final suggestion about setting would be that of an exercise or yoga class - maybe some kind of gym club which meets regularly and where the members know each other, not just a commercial leisure centre. Here you'd have people in scanty or tight-fitting garb, all involved in physical exercise close to each other. Eyes catch other eyes...

 

[SteelPoint]

Yes, it is a bit of a cheat but I can see how a short story can do away with the need for explaining every last detail.

Talking of "cheating", I'm assuming your story, as written, involves all the members of this inner group cheating on their partners, some of whom may actually be in the main membership of the choir?

My final suggestion about setting would be that of an exercise or yoga class - maybe some kind of gym club which meets regularly and where the members know each other, not just a commercial leisure centre. Here you'd have people in scanty or tight-fitting garb, all involved in physical exercise close to each other. Eyes catch other eyes...

Yes, that's what's happening. If I wanted to make it longer than a basic short story, I'd probably be doing some convoluted description of these members' back stories - but I feel that's more than the thing deserves and I've already written it now, anyway.

Thanks for the gym idea. It's been suggested before and is definitely a 'candidate'. Someone else has proposed a cycling club - this is a boom sport over in the UK right now and I'm trying to think how that idea would work - what a small group within such a club could pretend they were doing.

 

[Magineer]

Yes, that's what's happening. If I wanted to make it longer than a basic short story, I'd probably be doing some convoluted description of these members' back stories - but I feel that's more than the thing deserves and I've already written it now, anyway.

Thanks for the gym idea. It's been suggested before and is definitely a 'candidate'. Someone else has proposed a cycling club - this is a boom sport over in the UK right now and I'm trying to think how that idea would work - what a small group within such a club could pretend they were doing.

Bikes are expensive things these days - however the"small group" get together there had better be secure storage! As a one-off thing they could go away on a tour of a particular area, staying together at a hotel. Wheels within wheels, you might say!

 

[Monazwx]

A running group could work well, because such groups can consist of large coed adult groups, full of people wearing skimpy clothing, and it's plausible that a subset could go running off into the woods or bushes or some other special place together.

Plus the showers, don't forget the showers.

 

[bigtallman]

A choir seems to me to be very appropriate as a setting but I'd be interested to know whether there are other thoughts. I guess I'm really thinking of hobbies and leisure activities.

I was thinking maybe a bird-watching club. A sub-group of the club sets up a small blind in a remote park, but it turns out they're also overlooking a dogging site. (Maybe one of the bird-watching members knew about the dogging and suggested it on purpose to try and provoke a reaction?) The small group in the blind get an eyeful and that leads to their own adventures.

 

[UsuallyPresent]

Any grouping of a suitable size, especially if they're not homogenous - not all from the exact same source.

- A religious retreat, drawn from multiple different bodies of faith. (Pun intended)

- A golf club event where people are set up with different partners, aka a 'scramble'

- A training course for new regulations in an industry. The boring instructor could be clueless, an initial instigator, or just dragged along by the currents stirred up by others...

- A professional society - anything from administrative support to architects, artists to zoologists.

- An archeological preservation or environmental action committee, with people involved for various reasons - faithful of a traditional religion, different flavors of pagan/neopagan/etc, farmers affected by the region (downstream from a dam, perhaps), ecologists, those involved in tourism (travel guides, hotel owners, restauranteurs...), etc

Etc. Find some reason why lots of different types of people might get together to do things , and there'll be a sexual undertone there somewhere. It's not that you'd be making that part up, it's part of the human condition IMO, it's just that you'd be dancing on the edges of human sexuality, playing with stereotypes and exceptions, working for uncommon reactions to spill over into expressed lust or even love.

YMMV, 'course, but that's what the OP brought to my mind!

 

[MMM_wms]

âmazing reactions, I find, to a basically great idea

It surprises me a lot, how most of you have reacted to - or rather simply refused to take up a great story idea advanced by Steel Point.

What the heck is wrong with running with his idea, I ask myself? It was a great idea, so why in heaven must everyone who chimed in, feel like he or she knows better than the OP, how the story should start out? This to me is an indication of people ever more refusing to listen to one another. And of better-knowers appearing everywhere these days.

Now if y'all were Jada, I could understand it. She never agrees with anybody, or she always claims to know everything better, that's the way it appear to me anyway. But Jada was not part of the circle of people discussing this idea.

Seems to me, y'all could have made a lot of headway already, by spinning out details of Steel Point's basic idea, had not some smart ass believed he or she can do better than the OP.

 

[SimonDoom]

Seems to me, y'all could have made a lot of headway already, by spinning out details of Steel Point's basic idea, had not some smart ass believed he or she can do better than the OP.

The OP invited discussion of similar, related ideas. SteelPoint's words in the original post:

"I'd be interested to know whether there are other thoughts. I guess I'm really thinking of hobbies and leisure activities."

It's not disrespectful or beside the point to do exactly what the OP asked for -- engage in a discussion of a "sex club" that was oriented around hobbies and leisure activities, not necessarily a choir.

SteelPoint seems to have appreciated the wide-ranging discussion that ensued.

I don't see what there is to be angry about.

 

[UnpublishedEroticaWriter]

Yes, it is a bit of a cheat but I can see how a short story can do away with the need for explaining every last detail.

Talking of "cheating", I'm assuming your story, as written, involves all the members of this inner group cheating on their partners, some of whom may actually be in the main membership of the choir?

My final suggestion about setting would be that of an exercise or yoga class - maybe some kind of gym club which meets regularly and where the members know each other, not just a commercial leisure centre. Here you'd have people in scanty or tight-fitting garb, all involved in physical exercise close to each other. Eyes catch other eyes...

Not the most original idea.
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[SteelPoint]

I was thinking maybe a bird-watching club. A sub-group of the club sets up a small blind in a remote park, but it turns out they're also overlooking a dogging site. (Maybe one of the bird-watching members knew about the dogging and suggested it on purpose to try and provoke a reaction?) The small group in the blind get an eyeful and that leads to their own adventures.

Yes, someone else already suggested to me via PM that it could be a birdwatching club which meets weekly but where a small group has organised regular 'weekends away' at birding hotspots, staying at B&Bs - without partners and spouses.

 

[SimonDoom]

My final suggestion about setting would be that of an exercise or yoga class - maybe some kind of gym club which meets regularly and where the members know each other, not just a commercial leisure centre. Here you'd have people in scanty or tight-fitting garb, all involved in physical exercise close to each other. Eyes catch other eyes...

The advantage of a yoga class or gym class is that it's an inherently sexy environment, full of fit, good looking people wearing sexy clothing. There's temptation from the outset.

A choir would be interesting in a completely different way -- if it's a church choir then it presumably would be a chaste environment. There would be tension between what the small group are doing and what everyone expects.

Since the OP wants to get the suspicious spouse involved, how about this:

Husband is a seemingly upstanding member of the church, but he's kind of a prig and a jerk, which will make us more sympathetic when his lovely wife joins the choir and gets involved in its "special" inner circle. She gets drawn into their group sex activities and is trying to avoid being caught by her jealous and suspicious but obnoxious husband.