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lectronic music)

- [Damon] Beverly Hills is home to some of the most weatlhy

and powerful people in the world.

They drive the finest cars, shop at the best boutiques,

and they live in the most outrageous homes.

They also have access to the most exclusive

and high-end erotic club ever.

♪ I had a dream about you ♪

♪ You put your hand on my heart♪

♪ I put a spell on you ♪

♪ Made you a moth to my flame ♪

♪ From strangers to lovers ♪

♪ We danced all the pain away ♪

(electronic music)

- Most people think that my parties are

just hedonistic pleasure and drunken madness.

But for me, it's how I understand love.

Sex is love.

Just like everyone else, I want to be loved.

(mysterious music)

- This is Damon's interview, soft sticks.

(clapping)

(beep)

- Did you say "Soft dicks?"

Or soft sticks? Soft sticks, yeah.

(beeping)

(laughing)

(beeping)

- [Interviewer] What is Snctm?

To somebody who doesn't know anything about it,

what is Snctm?

- That's good question, what is Snctm?

It's many things.

(electronic music) Snctm is a secretive

society where we do a black tie masquerade,

private dinner parties, and an erotic theater.

You're gonna see things that you've never seen before

and experience things you would never experience before.

And I can say that with complete confidence.

More than anything, Snctm is a place to have a conversation

about our sexuality.

That conversation is both mental and physical

and people are discovering things about themselves

and others there as voyeurs and participants.

- This is like, what we always hoped it would kinda be like.

- Every Santum member passes a rigorous application process

to maintain our high level of exclusivity.

Welcome to the club, man.

- Thank you, sir.

- They come from all walks of like,

every social status imaginable.

But all of them like minded in the pursuit

of fully exploring our desires.

With total freedom and without judgment.

Basic membership dues are $15,000 a year,

but for the more discerning guests,

we offer our Dominus membership.

Each individual is someone I'm very impressed with,

so I don't let people into that group lightly.

At $100,000 a year, we will tailor

bespoke erotic experiences to suit your specific requests.

(rock music)

Yeah, well, it's a tough job, but somebody has to do it.

As the Snctm family has evolved, we've accepted

a close knit group of devotees.

These are performers who live the Scntm lifestyle 24/7.

(electronic music)

There's no question that the more successful this becomes,

the more dangerous it becomes for me personally.

I've put so much into this that I kind of lost a lot.

It's just taken away from me, like, the only thing

that is really important.

(melancholy music) (ringing)

It's Dad.

I was just callin' to say hi.

I miss you, I love you.

Call me back.

Okay, baby, bye.

(intense music)

How are you?

What's goin' on?

- How are you?

Damon and I met when I was 18.

I just graduated from high school.

He was 25 or 26.

And I snuck into this club, and he spots me.

And in literally, it's cliche, but it was instantaneous,

the love, the connection, and I moved in with him

a week later and we lived together ever since.

Up until, you know, recently.

So, Olivia came to me last night

and she was literally crying in tears.

Our two girls are Olivia and Madison.

Olivia is going to be 12 in September, Madison's nine.

More emotional than I've ever seen her about these boys

teasing her at school.

You know apparently they went onto your Instagram

and then from there found your website

and then from there, you know, clicked on it

and saw a bunch of things.

Damon feels like Snctm is like a creative art, it's artistic

and it's this and that and I'm like,

you know, I didn't grow up that way.

I grew up in a very kind of all American home

with structure, with boundaries, with rules.

And I think that he kind of,

he grew up in a very different way, opposite to me.

And so the way we raise our children, you know, shows that.

- There's no way to keep this a secret.

- I just don't want her to like, become one of those

damaged tweens that don't talk about their feelings.

- I'm doing the best I can and I think I'm doing a good job.

- No one's saying that you're not.

- Those kids love me, and I love them.

And other than eliminating Snctm completely from my life,

I don't know how to protect the kids completely from it.

And ...

Yeah.

I can't drop Snctm.

I'm supporting her and I'm giving her a good life

and my kids, I don't have another source of income.

I don't have a plan B.

I was never gonna be the suit and tie, nine to five guy.

I was never gonna be that.

Like you're like, Snctm caused this.

- I don't want to talk about Snctm.

Because it's almost like you're saying,

"See, I chose this over you, and look how amazing it's doing

and look how I'm profiting.

I think I made the right choice."

- Okay, that's good to know.

- And it's like--

- I don't want you to feel that way.

- I hate it.

Whenever you do that, it's like smacking me across the face.

- Why?

- 'Cause I was left.

I've been replaced and abandoned by this alter ego of his,

and this persona and this party, and this lifestyle,

and all of his cronies, and all of the people that are like,

following it.

That was a pretty bold choice, to leave, to move out.

To consciously and verbally, like,

say, like, "This is what I'm choosing

and this is what I'm gonna to go do,

and this is my authentic self,

and I'm a natural hedonist."

and like all of those things that you said.

He didn't choose me.

And that's, it's very hurtful.

It's hard for me, knowing that he could have

changed everything, he could have saved the whole thing.

And he chose not to.

I'm just so curious, like, why you chose what you chose.

- Hmm.

- Before my ex-wife and I split,

she wanted me to get a job as a real estate agent.

And I got my real estate license and I started doing that.

But I realized that this is just not me.

And had I stayed on that path, it would've,

it would've been terrible.

(ominous music) (birds chirping)

- I haven't seen Melissa in a while.

What's been happening with her?

- I just got back from lunch with her.

And I just want to focus on work right now.

- Okay.

- [Damon] Yeah.

- I have the menu for tonight.

For the dinner.

So we have a foie gras lolly pop--

- I don't like foie gras.

No fuckin' way.

They're like torturing a duck.

I know you're French,

but I don't like to eat tortured ducks.

- Well, can we hear the whole thing?

- Nicholas came in to help run operations a few years ago now.

- How're you guys doing?

Good to see you.

- He could really host a night and run a night impeccably.

- Please enjoy. (classical music)

Thank you. - Always good.

- My background since the beginning of time,

is five-star hotels.

In banquet operation in England,

to basically I do everything.

Damon, he gets to party and I get to work and organize.

(laughing)

I don't partake in any sexual activities.

I'm mostly boring at the parties.

But somebody has to make sure

that when there's a glass that breaks,

and half of the people are naked,

that they don't cut themselves.

At the bar, can you get a towel quickly?

- He is clear, sober and someone I can trust

taking care of business.

- Our guests are gonna be here in a minute.

We gotta rehearse.

- Okay, so we have the dinner.

- [Woman] Yeah.

- Do we have the performance picked out?

- So, yeah, for sure, like two bunnies

making out on the table,

I was thinking Ariel and maybe Jackie.

So I'm the creative director at Snctm.

Let's please hurry. (exciting music)

I choreograph the shows, create the costumes.

Sexy. - I like it.

Create this interactive theater where people come in to

like a different world.

And then you just stand like this, yes, soldier.

Okay, perfect.

- Her mind is just like out there.

Her fantasies are insane.

She was the first creative director, who I was like,

"Can you tone that down a little bit?"

- Dogs, dogs, be right there.

I have this vision of what i want to create,

and like I get like ideas from different photographers

and fashions and theater.

It's not just like some sloppy porn thing.

(laughing)

Yup, very soft.

Good, mhhmm.

- Alina is my partner in crime

and we both coming from Europe

are branding ourselves the nerds

and actually I like that.

What is the highest court in the United States?

- Supreme Court.

- Mmhhmm.

- Yes.

I'm very organized and like, I'm always on time.

I guess it's the German thing.

You go to an interview in Germany, you're one minute late,

forget it, they're not gonna take you.

(rock music)

- [Nicholas] Get it straight.

Tables gotta be straight.

Oh my god.

Wait, I can push it here, maybe.

(laughing)

- Nick you're so strong.

- My house is my sanctuary and it's a private place for me.

So my dinner parties are small and they're for a few

of my members to watch performance

and enjoy life and possibly indulge in some playtime.

- [Nicholas] The chef's here.

Damon, this is Emmanuel.

He's our chef tonight.

- Emmanuel! - Hi, I'm Emmanuel.

- I'm Damon!

- [Emmanuel] Thanks for having me.

- [Damon] Of course.

- It's a beautiful house.

- Yeah, well welcome, I look forward to tasting

whatever you're creating.

- Thank you, I'm very excited about the menu.

- Fantastic.

- Aphrodisiac all the way.

- [Damon] I love it, right on. - It's going to raise

the energy of everybody.

I love to use aphrodisiac ingredients in my cooking.

Just because you know, it's nutritiously,

to brings you all the great nutrients that super food have.

And also it boosts your libido and your stamina.

There's people like Casanova for example,

he used to eat 50 oysters every morning for breakfast

and he claimed to have 122 women.

Those ingredients are very powerful

but also there is a sense of textures and colors and taste

that, you know, stimulate your senses

and makes you more horny, I guess.

- So we gonna, you're gonna costume them

and then we're gonna do the rehearsal.

- Yeah.

- And it's 6:30.

- Yeah.

- So guests start arriving in a half hour.

- Okay, take it off.

(electronic music)

Let's go, let's go fast.

You hiding, I give you a sign when to come down.

You coming downstairs and what you do is,

you just stand here.

- I think the ritual and the performance and the masks

and the lingerie and the environments we choose to do

the events in, and everything goes into creating

a fantasy.

- First how it's gonna start, you go.

And then you stop, maybe, because she have touch me,

so you start touching now, okay?

- Huh?

- No.

- Yes.

(laughing)

- So touch, touch, touch and then like, you bend over

maybe, like.

When I was a little girl,

I was a ballerina for a little bit,

so I really care that the girls know how they

walk, how they, you know just crawl, how,

whatever they do, it's very important.

And then we eat me.

- Have her eat me.

- You eat, eat, eat. (licking)

okay, eat, eat, eat, lick, lick, lick.

- The performances at Snctm are what make us

what we are and separate us from a sex club.

- [Performer] Are we supposed to get off?

- Yes, but we need to figure out the situation

when you like, you eating her out,

you eating her out. - Yeah, I'll eat her out.

- Then you like separate, and then like,

we're not doing the scissoring, but like--

(giggling)

Don't distract the girls, please.

Okay, let's do the whole thing

from the beginning one more time.

(rock music)

(hip hop music)

(ringing)

- Tonight will be an intimate dinner party

with exquisite food.

- How are you?

Great to see you. - Great to see you.

- And an amazing erotic performance.

(mwah)

- Welcome.

- And I truly think that the guests will love it.

- So, welcome everybody.

It was a little chilly out there, wasn't it?

- Gosh.

- Yeah.

We're in Clark Gable's old hunting lodge.

- Stop!

- That's really cool - No way.

- Yeah, so this is where he came to hunt.

It sits on five acres.

This is where the guys would come and hang out.

I mean how much hunting could they really do up here?

What are you gonna hunt?

(laughing)

And now I live here, so welcome.

- [Man] It's really cool.

- Yeah. - It's quite a story.

- And we have a nice meal planned,

some nice performance planned.

I'm here with a good friend of mine tonight.

And I can't wait to get started.

- Damon has created something here

which is an opportunity for people

to open their minds.

- I'm all about pushing limits

and we're gonna follow Snctm

and we're gonna go to where it goes and just pursue it

and enjoy it and enjoy life and pursue ourselves

and our love and our romance and our sexuality.

- I just wanted to introduce myself, I'm Chef Emmanuel.

I made an aphrodisiac dinner especially for you tonight.

(intense electonic music)

- Almost everything that you experience

at one of my parties is catered towards

creating an environment that is a turn on.

Now that doesn't necessarily mean just sex.

But that your senses are turned on.

That you are in a place where you feel comfortable.

That you are surrounded by people

that are interesting and exciting.

And the cocktails are good and the food is good.

And all of that tends to lead to people wanting to

kiss and touch.

Every time you suit, you get a little bit nervous.

So I always talk to the girls and I'm

just be intimate with me.

Like let's pretend that no one else is here.

We're gonna go off that energy and it's gonna be perfect.

(violin music)

(chattering)

- [Man] I'll move my shit.

- When sexual activities take place,

I do look at the shows, but I'll be looking for anything

you would look for when you were in a five star restaurant.

I'll be looking for the small details.

Somebody left their glass on the floor.

Are my candles burning?

Is the house gonna be on fire?

If you see a napkin on the floor, you'd be like,

"Oof, what's that?"

(heavy breathing)

(moaning)

- Honestly, I just try to focus on really just

playing the violin well, you know.

Which obviously takes quite a bit of focus.

I think it's good for people to be in

an environment where they can express themselves, you know?

If that's art or sex or whatever it is, I think.

It's good for the human condition.

- Part of this fantasy and part of what I do well is,

I let them know that it's okay

to want to have sex.

That it's okay to want to touch, to be touched,

men and women.

You're not gonna be judged for it

and in fact we're gonna celebrate that.

(laughing)

Have some whipped cream.

(moaning)

- I think that if I was in a room full of people

and everyone's just standing there watching,

I would think that maybe I didn't do my job.

That maybe I didn't create the right environment that night.

(giggling)

That seems okay, right?

(guests chatting)

- I really enjoyed the fact that, we can actually

partake as opposed to watching.

We can be a, we are the show as opposed to

watching the show.

I enjoy that.

- The entertainment is...

- Beautiful.

- Bar none, you know when you--

-Yes.

- For an environment like this, you know,

the quality of the performers,

the sexuality that they exude, you know, it just,

it sets you off, it gets your goin', it really does.

(laughing)

(cheering)

(applauding)

- The bunnies were beautiful.

They're sensuous, there's something enticing

about their energy, it draws me to them.

I cannot stop myself.

Like all the taboos of this world,

and everything just dissolves in their energy.

- [Woman] So beautiful.

- Sex is probably the biggest part of our life.

- Yes.

- Sex is the center of our universe.

Everything we derive around it and revolves around it.

And in the beginning of our relationship,

we weren't into this lifestyle.

But as time grew on and our sexuality grew together,

we opened up to this type of experience.

- And seem to have made it all that much more amazing.

- I'm kind of an adrenaline junky, actually.

You know, and I love to take risks

and I love to live on the edge.

I'm drawn to things that push the limits.

- And we live life to the fullest every moment we can.

(electronic music)

- I think people have a hard time

in this environment, in this country,

in this day and time, embracing their sexuality

and embracing, you know, being all that you can be.

- I think they want to embrace it, but they're scared to.

- Yeah. - It's magical.

It's amazing, you feel incredible, you feel real.

(electronic music)

- When we come to Snctm, I really enjoy the fact that

I feel safe, I know that nobody is going to do

anything that I'm not okay with.

I am always being respected.

Everything within my boundaries is okay.

And I love that about this group of people.

(electronic music)

- I've learned over the years of doing this,

that if you put a bed in a room and say, "Go at it,"

people are gonna feel uptight about that.

They're not gonna be turned on, they're gonna feel pressure,

and they're probably not gonna do it.

But if I set up an environment where people slowly

sort of evolve into a space

where they begin to get turned on

and things start to kind of move in that direction.

Then that bed gets used.

(moaning)

(laughing)

You're a little bunny, huh?

- Damon's amazing.

He's very authentic, he's so genuine, he just exudes

sexuality, so it's hard to not just kind of cling onto that

and just absorb that and be a part of that.

- [Woman] Let's go do it together?

- Let's do it together!

Let's do it, I'd love to!

(rock music)

♪ Come with me ♪

♪ Don't ask why ♪

♪ Gonna go to the midnight sky tonight ♪

♪ Lookin' for some mystery ♪

♪ Floating under the boated tree alright ♪

♪ I don't want to live like you♪

♪ I just want to fly ♪

♪ I don't want to know the truth ♪

♪ I want to get high ♪

♪ Come with me ♪

- I was gonna say that like 20 times!

(laughing)

(sedate music)

- Ready for your breakfast? Yeah? You hungry?

Okay. (clanking)

- You know we're doing a six PM tomorrow?

- Yes, I can do that.

- I think that party actually went really well.

The show was amazing.

- The girls did really good,

they listened to what I wanted from them,

the guests like it,

and I really like the new French chef.

- [Nicolas] And it turned out to be great.

- People had fun, it was good.

(clanking)

- Okay, there you go. (peaceful music)

A kid goes to Disneyland for a day.

And for that day, they get to see all these characters

running around that aren't real,

but they want to believe they're real.

And they get to go on these rides,

and they get to spin in the teacups, and they smile,

and they laugh, and they have fun, and it's wonderful!

But then they go back to their real life.

And I beat myself up a lot about my marriage ending

and taking this direction.

But I'm learning through this process to kind of let go

a little bit.

And I've been realizing that,

you know, I'm a really lucky person.

I've created my own version of Disneyland.

And it feels like home.

(house music)

(electronic music)