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BERLIN IS FOR DEBAUCHERY

Ida J

Cover: Giada Armani

Berlinable invites you to leave all your fears behind and dive into a world where sex is a tool for self-empowerment.

Our mission is to change the world - one soul at a time.

When people accept their own sexuality, they build a more tolerant society.

Words to inspire, to encourage, to transform.

Open your mind and free your deepest desires.

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We land at the airport with the usual feeling of anticipation. Jared is just about bouncing off the walls with excitement as we board the bus into the city. We’re here for a week, ringing in the new year in characteristic fashion. I have borrowed Nadine’s bedroom, she’s away for the holidays. Quite the perk, having friends in Berlin. Jared hasn’t met Nadine, but we head out to the bar with Stefan, I’m keen for them to meet. Given my previous involvement with Stefan, I do wonder how Jared will react (he knows the story, there are no secrets between us). As it turns out, he’s a perfect gentleman, and Stefan seems to like him.

Jared is an irrepressibly sexy American, tall, muscular and with one of the prettiest faces I’ve ever seen, a real supermodel. His bearing is a mixture of devilish charisma and guileless charm. He knows he’s handsome, and he’s good at using this to get what he wants. But there’s a goofy, sweet side to him that never fails to melt my heart. We’ve been together for some years now, in various guises - when we met we were both wild as anything, unwilling to commit, yet partners in crime, pushing each other to new extremes in a cycle of elation and destruction. Then we grew feelings, settled down, became, if not exactly less adventurous, more inclined to adventure together and within reasonable parameters discussed in advance. I have high hopes for this holiday. I have a treat for him. In fact, a few. But a peculiarly gorgeous couple I’ve known for a year or so. I’m excited to introduce him to them.

We’re both into experimentation, and have had a reasonable amount (an unreasonable amount, depending how you see it) of group sex, but we haven’t done it with just one other couple before. And I do so love to please him, to find something new and orchestrate titillating situations. I’ve been showing him photos for his approval, we do this a lot, show each other photos of people we’ve matched with on apps, talk about it, decide if we want to pursue the matter. It’s a fun pastime, it also teaches you a lot about a person, finding out their sexual and aesthetic preferences. We have similar tastes, so I’m pretty sure he’s going to be into it as I show him photos of them in their fetishwear, modelling at an event. In one photo, they both wear sculpted leather corsets, looking like film stars going to a pervert’s premiere.

Mila and Jonathan are beautiful BDSM sex ravers, the kind of people who turn heads when they walk into a room, as if they were royalty walking into a court ball. Dressed to impress at all times, usually in latex, they radiate a consuming intensity. Probably they come across as intimidating in general, tall and striking and severe in their aesthetic. But I’m not easily intimidated, although I’m very easily led. And they’re thoroughly charming people, all sweetness and smiles, once you’ve actually met them. So, I’m really hoping for an interesting encounter, gleefully showing Jared photos every time they send one, over many months prior to this trip.

Now they’re away for Christmas and send a picture of them in a sauna. Jonathan’s strapping back with its abstract black lines tattooed all the way across, naked arse as he tends to the sauna. We take a photo in bed to send back to them, we’ve both just woken up and, shockingly, we look fresh and young and beautiful. I send it to Nadine, who sends an effusive text back. We also put it on our dating app profiles, for good measure.

A Berlin holiday would not be a Berlin holiday without a healthy dose of excess. On our first night, Kyle, a particularly unrepentant miscreant who seems to spend the vast majority of his time in a nightclub toilet, incites us to spend seven hours in the smoke-filled green room of a goth party. This more or less sets the tone for the coming week, nocturnal, like the vampires we are.

The next night a friend is playing a DJ set at a bar in Wedding, we go along to catch the start. Stefan tries to persuade us to go out with him, he’s going somewhere with Alexander. We have other plans though, a date with Mila and Jonathan at a rather bad taste club that the likes of Stefan shudder to think of entering. We invite him all the same, thinking how funny it would be to see him in that environment, being his snob self, thoroughly unimpressed. Not only is he a snob by nature, but he lives in Berlin.