Members-only lifestyle club on Passyunk Avenue in Southwest Philadelphia

About this club

The Pleasure Garden Club is a members-only lifestyle club on Passyunk Avenue in the Elmwood Park area of Southwest Philadelphia, a place for adults who arrive as couples, as single women or, on Friday nights, as single men, and meet one another by mutual consent under the house's own rules. The club pairs themed private rooms with a schedule that sets the tone for each evening.

Friday nights welcome couples, single women and single men. Saturday nights are reserved for couples and single women. On the first Friday of every month the club holds a theme party that blends fetish and swinger ideas into the evening.

Entry requires a current membership, and every member must be 21 or older with a state-issued ID. The club is BYOB and sells no alcohol; two juice bars serve the rooms. Phones and cameras stay away, and parking is free and gated. The dress code asks men for a tailored suit, a sport coat, a dress shirt, dress pants or dress jeans and polished shoes. Sports clothes, sweatsuits and tracksuits, tank tops, hoodies, baseball caps, beanies, basketball shorts, crocs, slides and sagging pants are turned away at the door.

The club keeps its own phone line and website for inquiries, and that is where membership questions and the details of each party night are best directed.

It suits couples and single women looking for a members-only room with a clear dress code, and single men on the nights the club admits them. Anyone who wants a BYOB evening with themed rooms and a fetish-and-swinger party once a month will find the format familiar and the rules plain.