When I found our Paris apartment on AirBnb, it was literally at the highest dollar of our price range. (If it was one dollar higher I’d never have seen it!). It included pinball, foozball, and billiards, as well as a working traffic light, and we decided to splurge on it because the kids would love it (they did), and it would be memorable. Well, it was memorable all right…
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| Unfortunately the slot machine didn't work but everyone loved playing pinball. You can see some of the decorative neon lights here, too. The fact that there's a woman's torso wearing underwear almost goes without saying since there are a few of those. |
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| My friends said, “Imagine the action that thing has seen.” I replied, “It's just a harmless pool table compared to the rest of the apartment!” |
Fast forward two months to our Paris arrival. As we enter the apartment there’s a suit of armor with a pink feather boa, and in the living room we’re surrounded by cheap-looking red velvet upholstery and there’s even more of it hanging from the ceiling. It looks like a bordello, plus the apartment is completely inundated with leopard and zebra prints. Our bedroom has little natural (or artificial) light, and is almost completely taken up by a giant leopard print platform bed. The bed is topped with a few stuffed jungle animals and there are more throughout the room. Everything looks custom made with leopard fabric, even the bookcases and TV stands. And the platform surrounding the bed is covered in (of course) more leopard fabric, which means it’s never really cleaned. Mark says we should take a black light to it, and I say I REALLY don’t want to know.
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| Our Paris bordello... er, apartment |
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| The tiger and leopard print bedroom. Note the print on the bed platform, the bookcase, and the TV stand (on the far left but you can't see the TV). |
So far the sex dungeon effect has been subtle, but then we notice the bedroom knick-knacks. The letters S-E-X make for a bookend. Among other things there’s also a statue of a woman on all fours, with her dress up and no panties. Also, a plushie topless woman’s torso. Without even seeing the plushie, Julia asks why there are so many things here with women’s private parts.
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| Just in case you didn't get the hint, here's a bookend to tell you. |
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| Bedroom knickknack |
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| Um, gimp mask and wig? |
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| Doesn't everyone have a plushie woman's torso? (Mark suggested stars or googly eyes on this picture over the nipples, but I thought that it took away too much from the stuffed nipple creepiness factor.) |
And then James finds the chain cuffs attached to the headboard. James asks, “Why are there chains attached to the top part of belts?”
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| The bed with chain cuffs bolted to the headboard. |
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| Chain cuff close-up! |
Mark notices a book of erotic photography by our host on top of a stack of books by the coffee table. I take a look and immediately recognize some of the chairs and backdrops, and of course leopard and zebra print props. And then I take pictures of those photos in the book and pictures of where they were photographed.
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| In case you want to go check out our Air BnB host's book of erotic photography... That's his name on the cover as the photographer. |
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| I saw this picture in the Air BnB host's book of erotic photography and looked up from where I was sitting and saw… |
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| ...the same backdrop! |
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| (I only chose examples with no nudity.) I know I've seen this chair before... |
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| ...Oh! There it is! |
For the record, a 6-year-old boy usually lives here, and the kids slept in his bunk bed. So it’s both family friendly and a sex dungeon.
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| Nice wholesome bunk beds |
Day 10: Exploring Passages in the Rain
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