The result, at least according to the video on their website, was somewhere between Eyes Wide Shut and a Victoria’s Secret commercial. Singer Paulette McWilliams on Her Years With Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, and Steely Dan Skirt Club Founder Genevieve LeJeune had been to such parties, too, and was inspired to create a sex party where women, in particular, could focus on their sexuality “away from the prying eyes of men.” I’d never heard of Skirt Club, or a bisexual women’s-only sex party, though I’d certainly been to a number of “play parties,” where people across the gender spectrum did everything from cuddling to coitus. I received the invitation to Skirt Club’s San Francisco launch party on a cold Saturday in January. It’s lesbianism: our little secret, for women whose bi-curiosity has become too overwhelming to ignore. It’s “lesbianism” that lesbians will recognize, but have a hard time endorsing without some irony. This is the kind of awkward, lighthearted, lesbianism many women either had – or wished they’d had – in college. This is Katy Perry singing “I kissed a girl and I liked it.” This is an Agent Provocateur window display. The invitation to Skirt Club, a women-only, bisexual and bi-curious sex party, tells you one thing, loud and clear: This may be a girls-only orgy, but it’s not lesbianism as you know it.
