Anyone been to the new Club Privata in Portland yet?

We're coming up on that time where we're going to start shopping around for a new place to live full-time out west. As some readers know from my prior posts, we're not a "lifestyle couple" but are considering the possibility, and things like topless sunbathing or visiting a club are certainly our speed. We're looking for somewhere clean and reasonably cosmopolitan with "big city" amenities and vanilla nightlife/entertainment, but also reasonably laid-back attitudes about sex: the kind of place where people mostly mind their own business, etc.
 
We picture our off-time mostly consisting of going out for nice diners and cocktails, outdoors, road trips, and screwing our brains out. Our preference is to avoid deep freezes and gray skies. We have our own ideas, but since many on this forum live in the western U.S. and are more familiar with the cities to begin with, I thought I'd ask the question in the form of a poll.

Ok so I realize I am on a swingers board (ultimately that's where my interest lies) however we are unsure how to begin getting our feet wet to gauge how it makes us feel. I see so many options like online profiles, clubs, parties, swingers cruises,events, and conventions.
 
What is the best environment to start out having more alt experiences without jumping in blindly? Right now I think (If I'm accurately reading his comfort level and unsure of mine) we are thinking we could handle watching people, we could handle flirting/dancing/talking, we *might* be able to handle others watching us. I'm trying not to get too technical about it or get caught up in lingo but I feel like that's not really swinging yet I'd like to be an environment where that is what everyone else is there for.
 
I went to a sex club long ago (in a previous relationship) and felt it was so not my scene... it was very seedy and so many men following us around with their cock in their hand waiting for the slightest hint they were going to get action watching us. I was totally turned off.
 
I need to be in an environment where people aren't all seedy and understand respect and boundaries. Does that make sense?
 
Is the best option an on premise club?

My SO and I recently started attending events at a local club in Portland. We love the energy of the place, "We" have a blast but don't engage in anything more than stroking or kissing with other people and are both happy with that boundary. How common is that? Are we being rude? She is beautiful and fun to watch so at least we give a little back...

This is a thread for bareback-only couples/males/females
 
I don't mean those who differentiate between long-terms FB's and casual partners. I'm talking here about people who NEVER use condoms, whether with a FB, stranger or a gang-bang.
 
Questions:
 
 
1/ How long have you been bareback-only?
2/ How did you come to this decision?
3/ Is the attraction of bareback to you physical (ie sensation) or psychological (ie do you view swinging as incomplete unless cum is exchanged)
4/ Do you find many that many swingers couples are bareback-only? (We find the real number is much higher than those who will openly admit it)
5/ Has it ever seriously limited your number of potential partners?
6/ For those who go to swingers parties/clubs (as Sarah and I do), have you ever been to any which are specifically bareback-only events/venues.
 
 
I will answer my own questions fullly later, however, but just to start the topic off, Sarah and I have been in the swingers lifestyle for the past 14 years and Sarah's been 100% bareback-only the entire time. No condoms for us!
 
 
NOTE: There is to be no judgemental moralising on this thread. I respect other's decisions to use condoms and your should respect my wife and I's decision not to do so.