TORONTO – Manhattan was a much wilder place 30 years ago, when a former kosher-meat salesman named Larry Levinson opened Plato’s Retreat, which quickly became the world’s most famous sex club.

The “mat room” at Plato’s Retreat was a cushion-floored, crab-happy enclosure with space enough for fifty couples to swing in the strictest sense. A sign on the wall read NO ONE ADMITTED FULLY DRESSED ...

E.T. looks like a supermodel compared with this dude. In the latest installments of its ongoing “The Walkman Has Landed” campaign, Plato – a furry blue big-headed alien introduced this past summer – ...

In this new documentary by the team of Mathew Kaufman and Jon Hart, the short, ultimately bittersweet history of Plato's Retreat, its owner, and the times is expertly told. By Peter Brunette, The ...

First of all: people are still having orgies out there, even without the cold, loveless mats of Plato's Retreat. Or at least they were. According to the NY Post, orgy organizer Palagia was throwing ...

The notorious Manhattan swingers club Plato’s Retreat, which managed to stay in business (with a few hiccups) from 1977 to 1985, was called “the poor man’s Playboy Mansion,” a place where ...