For the past nine days, 150 people have been occupying the grounds of a farm in the south of Berlin, taking part in the Art of Love Festival. New arrivals are asked to keep their clothes on until they reach the barn in the middle of property so they do not scandalise the neighbours. Behind the barn, most people are naked and having sex with each other out in the open. [...]
The 10-day schedule is rammed with workshops. For just 600 Euros (about £511), participants can pepper their public sex sessions with classes in orgasmic breathing, prostate massages, the sense of smell, while there is also an orgy event called 'Le Partouze'. [...]
Everything might be permitted, but not everyone is invited. Part of the organisers' job is to go through applications and call each participant beforehand, to ask a set of questions that is meant to show whether someone is into the experience for the right reasons. Half of the attendees are members of the "community" – meaning they're friends or acquaintances of the organisers. Many of them work in sexual wellness – they are tantric instructors, psychologists, performers, massage therapists. The rest are just people who stumbled across the website and signed up. Was that because they wanted to raise a middle finger to societal norms or just to bone a lot? I guess that's what I came here to find out.
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