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France’s ‘affordable’ libertine campsite in Dordogne proves an instant hit

A new libertine campsite for "swingers" has turned heads after opening in the Dordogne in southwestern France. And it pulled in plenty of punters for its opening weekend.

Published: 18 April 2017 14:22 CEST
France's 'affordable' libertine campsite in Dordogne proves an instant hit
Photo: The Diamant Noir ("Black Diamond")
The Diamant Noir (“Black Diamond”) campsite has just had a fully booked Easter weekend, a promising start for the new libertine natural hangout.
 
Owner Bruno Mazaferro says he just wanted to make another option for people who, perhaps, couldn't afford the top libertine hotspots in the Mediterranean. 
 
“Libertine experiences are popular in France, but it can make for an expensive holiday,” he told The Local. 
 
“Many people want to go to the naturist resorts at the Cap d'Agde near Marseille, but it's too expensive. That's why we opened this camp site. It's a libertine weekend away that you can actually afford.”
 
Rates start from €40 a night for a tent in the low season.
 
The camp site, which is the third of its kind in France, promises “an exceptional setting, surrounded by nature, to spend a naturist and swingers holiday in complete freedom”.
 
There's also a heated swimming pool, a sauna, a jacuzzi, and themed evenings like “naughty animations” and “libertine encounters”, whatever that means. 
 
Mazaferro added that the only rules for visitors were that they were at least 21-years-old and that they respected one another. 
 
“It's been mostly French people so far, but also people from Belgium, Holland, Switzerland… all of Europe, but not anyone from England. At least not yet.”
 
France is currently enjoying a boom in naturism, with especially younger people eager to ditch their clothes. 
 
And French tourist officials have played their part in promoting nudism in France, with a campaign from French tourist chiefs at Atout France going viral in April last year after it urged typically prudish Brits to come to France for its “naturist environments”.
 
Its website has a whole section dedicated to “Feeling Free”, complete with a guide to the best spots for getting your kit off and enjoying the sun.
 
 
France now boasts over 450 spaces totally dedicated to naturists, most of which are camps or colonies. There are over 70 naturist beaches, 35 bed and breakfasts, and 24 nudist swimming pools. 
 

But a word of warning – if you're planning to head to France for a naturist jaunt, be sure to read these golden rules first.
 
 

SEX

Prostitute-orgy insurer had a sex habit

The German insurance company that rewarded its top-sellers with a prostitute sex party in Hungary also paid for employees to visit brothels and swingers clubs in Majorca and Jamaica, according to a new report.

Published: 30 August 2012 10:33 CEST
Prostitute-orgy insurer had a sex habit
Photo: DPA

The Handelsblatt newspaper said on Thursday the insurance company Ergo paid for employees to visit the swingers Hotel “Hedonism II” in Jamaica, as well as a brothel on the Spanish island Majorca.

Ergo CEO Torsten Oletzky had until now consistently maintained that the 2007 sex trip to Budapest, for which the company hired 20 prostitutes, was an isolated incident.

But an audit reported to the CEO as early as 2011 by a former head of sales contained details of a €2,428 brothel visit in Majorca 2005, which was later reimbursed as the cost of “food and drink,” reported Handelsblatt.

In 2009, 2010 and 2011 branches of the Ergo subsidiary insurer Hamburg-Mannheimer went on expense-paid trips to the swingers club Hedonism II in Jamaica. The full costs came to more than €75,000, the report says.

The Hedonism II club describes itself as the “ultimate pleasure” for singles and couples over the age of 18.

Ergo told the Handelsblatt that the brothel visit to Majorca and the trips to the swingers club in Jamaica were not comparable to the Budapest affair. It seems they were organised by decentralised offices, not the headquarters.

Company spokesman Alexander Becker said the decision on the choice of the hotel was made by independent agents. “To our knowledge, Budapest was an isolated incident,” Becker said.

Ergo lost more than 500 customers last year after it was revealed that its subsidiary Hamburg-Mannheimer had thrown a prostitute sex party for its sales representatives in the historic Gellert health spa in Budapest, Hungary.

Lurid details of the 3-day weekend were widely published in the German media.

One participant told the Handelsblatt that four-poster beds were set up on either sides of the thermal baths. “Anyone could go to one of the beds with one of the ladies and do what he wanted. The ladies were marked with stamps on their forearms after each such meeting. So it was recorded how often each lady frequented.”

“The ladies wore red and yellow wrist bands. One group were there as hostesses, and the others were to fulfill any and every desire,” he added. “There were also ladies with white wrist bands. They were reserved for the board and the very best salesmen.”

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