Court gives S&M parlor the (spiked) boot
Tel Aviv club shuts down after neighbors complain of loud music, beatings racket bringing down property value
The Israeli Supreme Court ordered the Marquis de Sade Corporation to shut down The Dungeon, its S&M club in Old Jaffa, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Thursday.
The 10,000 strong BDSM (bondage and discipline, domination and submission, sadism and masochism) community in Israel – dominants and submissives, masters and slaves – gathers twice weekly for large parties in two Tel Aviv night clubs; The Dungeon and No Limit, which on weekdays runs a much more wholesome operation as a swingers club. 
Play time in the dungeon (Photo: Tomeriko)
The Dungeon, which is run by Marquis de Sade owner Amos Levy, was penalized once before, when the Tel Aviv Municipality ordered it closed four years ago, after the neighbors complained that the strange noises emanating from the club were making it difficult for area's residents to sell their apartments.
Whipping away
The crack of the whip still continued to rattle the ancient Jaffa walls, however, when Marquis de Sade attorney Shai Rosinski filed an appeal with the Tel Aviv District Court. The deliberations were concluded a month ago, when the Marquis de Sade was ordered once again to close the club and given a 30 day extension in which to appeal to the Supreme Court.
Rosinski turned to the court, but earlier this week the country's highest legal entity officially rejected his appeal and ordered the Dungeon shut down immediately.
Upon receiving the cour order, Rosinski filed a petition with the Tel Aviv Municipality requesting that it reconsider granting The Dungeon a new business license.
S., a 27 year old education student from Tel Aviv, is an ample-bodied, sexy dominatrix who loves terrorizing submissive-types ("by whipping, if need be") into "pampering and serving." "If the dungeon is really going to be closed, it will be dearly missed by the S&M community," she told Yedioth Ahronoth. "For members of the community, the club was like a warm, intimate home. There we felt free to be ourselves, without fearing exposure.
"Unwanted elements were kept out; anyone who walked into the club knew he or she was entering an area with strict rules concerning security."
According to S., the club was closed by intolerant people who make it difficult for those with different lifestyles to live in Israel. "After all, democracy was founded on tolerating others," she says.
