[Thrax]

Swinger's Palace is one of three on-premise lifestyle clubs within about an hour's drive of Pittsburgh. The club is in a two-story house, in a wooded area of a sparsely-populated valley. It probably was not an ideal living space since it sits very close to a big power relay station. It has it's own off-street parking.

For many years that residential location housed a couples-only lifestyle club, the name of which escapes me. As now, during that time no one lived at the house, but it was the site of parties on weekends and holidays.

John and Kim, who currently run the operation, took charge in 2001 and renamed it Swinger's Palace, and they started allowing singles to attend the parties. I visited SP once just after they took over, but I didn't like the vibe and have not been back.

The other two area clubs (DJ's Island and Mountain Retreat) cater to mostly couples, some SFs and too many SMs, and there's no (at least in the open) bi-male or gay male activity. SP started the same way -- from what I saw on my visit -- but within a short while it started advertising to and welcoming all comers, so to speak. SP is straight/bi/gay male and female swinger-friendly. It also welcomes transvestites, the transgendered, and folks with a variety of fetishes. SP does have a devoted clientele (congregation?). It's nice that those folks have an option for their sexual circumstances and interests, although the club is obviously not to everybody's tastes.

If they're styling themselves as a church now, that's news to me, as I'm sure it would be to a lot of SW Penna swingers. I imagine those midnight services would be interesting, to say the least.

Thrax