Snctm is an upscale, laid-back orgy thing with tuxedoes and masks a la Eyes Wide Shut. The after-the-jump video reminded me of Manhattan’s HellFire Club, which I visited twice in ’80 or ’81, both times accompanied by Swedish dominatrix Eva Norvind and once by a publicist friend. Located at 9th Avenue and 14th Street when the meatpacking district was a rawer, more challenging environment, it was a sex club that a lot of people attended just to watch. Some gay action but mostly straight, and more particularly couples performing BDSM routines. I can remember nursing a Jack Daniels and ginger ale as I watched a guy and a girl “so entwined” (as Dylan once put it) on a slightly raised wooden platform behind the bar, lying on a mattress and doing the old gymnastic whambam. The Hellfire Club was run by a BDSM enthusiast named Lenny Waller. The original 19th Century Hellfire Clubs of England and Ireland were exclusive hangs for high society rakes — i.e., “persons of quality” — who wished to take part in socially perceived immoral acts…the clubs were rumored to have distant ties to an elite society known as The Order of the Second Circle.”