British Partygoers Honor Eyes Wide Shut With Commemorative Orgy

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Funny press reports here. Click the links for images.
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http://www.movieline.com/2009/07/british-partygoers-honor-eyes-wide-sh
ut-with-commemorative-orgy.php

Cast interviews are nice and all, but when you really want to make an
impression about Eyes Wide Shut’s 10th anniversary, let’s face it: It
takes an orgy. A British estate owner learned that the hard way this
week when 350 guests descended on his property for a masked ball
modeled after the scandalous centerpiece of Stanley Kubrick’s film.
Maybe the party promoter’s £65 ticket price and Web site warning
“COUPLES & FEMALES ONLY! No Single men!” should have given away what
would happen next, but for the story’s sake, I’m quite happy it
didn’t.

Reports from Great Britain say Grahame Bond rented his 17-acre
Somerset estate to Dutch adult-entertainment promoter Little Sins,
collecting £9,000 (nearly $15,000) for the group’s use of its stately
17h-century manor Haswell House. Which was all great until around
midnight when the guests started, well, fcking.

“The party started normally and it all seemed pretty harmless — people
were drinking but everyone was very well behaved and pleasant,” Bond
told the Daily Mail. “The whole group were dressed in these great
costumes and it looked exactly like something out of Eyes Wide Shut.
But then one of the organisers announced: “The moment has come. The
spell has begun” and everyone began kissing and having sex. To say I
was shocked was an understatement.”

Bond sent a pair of 19-year-old staffers home before calling the
police, who empathized but said they lacked the authority to bust up a
private party. And thus was affirmed just the latest proof of
Kubrick’s far-reaching influence: High-end European orgies. Could it
really have ended any other way?

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1199650/Inside-upper-class-masked-ball- turned-orgy-stately-home-Halswell-House.html

These pictures show the scenes inside a stately home before a masked
ball degenerated in to a mass orgy. More than 350 well-heeled
partyogers, who had arrived in a fleet of Porsches, BMWs and Aston
Martins, hold lit candles as they watch a mysterious man in a red
cloak and two women in lingerie perform on stage. Everything seemed
normal to the owner of the 17th century stately home Halswell House
until midnight - when the assembled stripped down to leather pants,
corsets and suspenders.

Within minutes, as revealed in the Daily Mail today by columnist
Richard Kay, the guests began having sex.

Masked crusaders: The partygoers dropped their capes to reveal bondage-
style underwear at midnight as an organiser announced 'the time has
come, the spell has begun'

The Somerset property was hired for £9,000 for the night from what he
later found out was a Dutch-based adults-only entertainment group.

Grahame Bond, who bought Haswell House for £1.94m in 2004, said he was
disgusted by the party and was forced to send some of his teenage
staff home because of the explicit activities. He called the police
but was told officers were powerless to intervene because it was on a
private dwelling between consenting adults. Mr Bond, 45, said the
evening suddenly turned into an orgy 'as if a switch had been flicked
on'. He said: 'The party started normally and it all seemed pretty
harmless - people were drinking but everyone was very well behaved and
pleasant.

'The whole group were dressed in these great costumes and it looked
exactly like something out of Eyes Wide Shut. 'But then one of the
organisers announced: "The moment has come. The spell has begun" and
everyone began kissing and having sex.
'To say I was shocked was an understatement.'

Mr Bond said he was totally lost for words when he suddenly noticed
one couple 'at it' at the window sill. 'When the haze from the dry ice
in the disco room cleared we realised it was going on everywhere,' he
said.

'That's when the penny dropped that it was a swinger's party. 'The
guests were all public-school types and I jokingly said to one: "I
suppose you are a High Court judge.'" He replied: 'You're not far off
the mark'.'

The revellers arrived at Halswell House at 9pm on Saturday and partied
to music provided by a DJ until the orgy began at midnight. Mr Bond
immediately sent two 19-year-old waitresses home and the party
continued unabated until the bar closed at 3am and the guests retired
to their rooms. Mr Bond said he was unaware that the house had been
booked by events company Little Sins for an event titled 'Eyes Wide
Sins'.

The Dutch company sold tickets at £65 apiece to the 350 guests and the
advert on their website read: 'LittleSins brings you at an (sic)
exquisite manor house. 'A new luxury and even more exclusive edition
of the cape and mask party in the UK near Bristol. COUPLES & FEMALES
ONLY! No Single men!'

Mr Bond said: 'When they booked the party they did say "it's got a
dating aspect to it." I'm just taking it in good humour because it
was supposed to be a private party.

'I was very worried for my staff and told them they could go home if
they wanted, and two of them, who were only 19 years old, did so. 'I
called the police but they said that as it was a private party there
was nothing illegal about it. 'Our security guards asked them to go to
their rooms when the bar closed and they were supposed to have
breakfast cooked the next day, but no one attended.'

The Grade-I listed Tudor house is set in 17 acres of rolling parkland
and comes complete with an ornamental lake and incredible views.
Inside, the 30 ensuite bedrooms can sleep up to 40 people who can
enjoy the rooftop terrace with hot tub and a ballroom decked out in
glittering crystal chandeliers. Halswell House is most regularly used
as a wedding venue.
A police spokesman yesterday confirmed they are powerless to stop such
parties because they are held on private property.

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http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/helen-croydon-theres%20%20%20 -nothing-wrong-with-a-polite-orgy-1748074.html

Helen Croydon: There's nothing wrong with a polite orgy. I found it to
be the most honest form of flirting I've ever come acrosss.

"Orgy at 17th Century mansion" screamed the popular press. Even The
Independent described it as "group sex of bacchanalian proportions".
What they're actually referring to is a privately run, tastefully
organised, masked ball at a manor house near Bristol, where a few
consenting adults made good use of a purposely prepared "chill-out"
room.

I was at the party and I can't really see what all the moral fuss is
about. Don't get excited, I wasn't there as one of the indulgent
guests, but as a strictly lingerie-stays-on writer for The Erotic
Review.

The party is appropriately named Eyes Wide Sin, after the hit film
Eyes Wide Shut starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. In tune with the
movie, guests arrived in full-length capes and Venetian masks. At
midnight they were removed in a hierogamy-inspired ritual led by a
chanting priest in the centre of a ring of women. They ended the
ceremony by circulating a passionate kiss one-by-one and then slid off
their cloaks.

The organisers, Little Sins, brought the concept over from Holland
where I'm told everyone's much less inhibited and swinging parties are
unashamedly attended by a very respectable set.

Granted, the midnight ritual is a bit quirky but the media outrage was
a little excessive. Had this kind of activity taken over a wedding
reception, I could understand, but with the exception of my rather
stunned mini-cab driver, everyone who drove through the towering
wrought iron gates to Halswell House on Saturday knew exactly what the
night was about. Most are couples in long-term relationships, willing
to try new things. Some just want to relieve their fantasies, built up
through years of relationship constraint.

The few I dared speak to told me their liberal lifestyles had injected
passion into their relationship. Most set boundaries as to how far
they are happy for their partner to go. One first-timer told she will
gently dig her nails into her partner if she needs to let him know
he's going too far.

In fact, I found it to be the most honest form of flirting I've ever
come across – refreshingly free of hidden agendas. How many times have
we all been on the receiving end of unwanted attention in a bar
knowing they have an ulterior motive in mind?

What these fancy swingers are guilty of, though, is allowing
themselves to believe sophistication appeases seediness. I nearly fell
into the trap myself. In normal circumstances the thought of two,
three or even five naked strangers bouncing around on a four-poster
bed would be quite repulsive. Yet sipping Veuve Clicquot under grand
chandeliers surrounded by middle-class accents and prancing bodies
clad in Agent Provocateur, it seemed so much more acceptable –
seductive even.

Feelings towards sex fluctuate between ultimate pleasure and sordid
repulsion. Perhaps it's because there's such a delicate balance
between the two extremes that we're so keen to dress it up with
decadence to pass it off as respectable.