Nineteen years. Three owners. One of the largest dungeons in the country. This is the story of how a small private club in suburban Atlanta became the gravitational center of Southeast kink.
1763 was founded in 2003 by an Atlanta dominatrix known in the community as Ms. Whip. The club's name was a cryptic nod to its street address in an industrial corner of Tucker, Georgia - 1763 Montreal Circle. From the outside, the building was deliberately bland: a flex-space box that gave nothing away.
Inside, Ms. Whip built something different. The interior grew over the years to include castle-style dungeon doors flanked by torches, a main play floor with spanking benches and St. Andrew's crosses, dedicated rooms for medical play and electric play, an indoor rope-rigging structure, and outdoor gathering space for warm Georgia nights. By the time her tenure ended in the late 2010s, the club had a reputation across the country: nothing in the Southeast came close.
The model was a private membership club, allowing nudity and consensual kink practices among vetted members. Two rules were absolute on play nights: no alcohol and no cell phones. Trained dungeon monitors with first-aid certification kept watch over every room.
By around 2017, after nearly fifteen years at the helm, Ms. Whip was preparing to retire. The community faced the real possibility that 1763 would close. There was no equivalent waiting in the wings - losing the club would have meant losing the largest BDSM education and play space in the region.
In July 2018, the keys passed to a married couple from Atlanta's northern suburbs: Ms. P (P_105 on FetLife) and fotodawg. Their backgrounds were not what most people pictured: social work, theater production, and management of 12-step recovery programs. They were not professional kinksters; they were operators with deep commitments to safety, community, and structure.
They kept the lights on. They kept the education calendar running. They kept the rules - no alcohol, no phones, monitors in every room. The handover preserved what mattered.
"My edges softened." - fotodawg, on what years of running 1763 did to him
1763 was not principally a sex club. It was an education and play space - a dungeon, in the technical kink-community sense of the word. On a typical week the club's calendar might include:
The club anchored two major annual events: DomCon Atlanta, which chose the city for over a decade specifically because of 1763, and Frolicon, the long-running Atlanta-area kink and alternative-lifestyles convention.
COVID-19 was nearly fatal. A private play space cannot social-distance. 1763 closed for extended periods in 2020 and 2021. The community responded with a campaign called Bondage Bonds - structured donation drives that effectively kept the club's lights on through the months it could not host members.
The club also picked up occasional revenue from music-video shoots, with the dungeon's distinctive interior making it a natural fit for the genre.
The closure was not a community failure - it was a real-estate transaction. The owners of the building sold it to a commercial printing company. October 1, 2022 was the last night of operation. The full story is on the closure page.
For more on what 1763 offered while open: Classes · Events · Membership