After nineteen years, the largest BDSM dungeon in the Southeast closed on October 1, 2022 - not because the community failed, but because the landlord sold the building.
1763 leased its building on Montreal Circle in Tucker. Over the course of 2022, the property's ownership decided to sell. The buyer was a commercial printing company that needed the industrial flex space for its own operations. There was no scenario in which 1763 could remain a tenant.
The owners, Ms. P and fotodawg, looked at relocation. The math was punishing. Replacing 1763's footprint - thousands of square feet of properly-zoned, properly-soundproofed, properly-private flex space - within driving distance of metro Atlanta would have required capital the club did not have, and a multi-month gap that the membership base could not absorb.
They chose to close cleanly rather than limp on. The final night was October 1, 2022.
Once the closure was confirmed, the club held a series of farewell events through the late summer and early fall of 2022. Members who had not been active in years showed up. Out-of-town members flew in. The DomCon and Frolicon communities sent representatives. The music-video shoots that had supplemented the club's revenue took on a valedictory quality.
The owners worked through the inventory carefully. Furniture, rigging structures, equipment - much of it that had defined the look of the dungeon for nearly two decades - was passed forward to the successor venture rather than sold off piece-by-piece.
"It is absolutely nothing without the community." - KinkyVagabond, on what 1763 was, and what comes next
A new venue, Decadent Desires, was announced in late 2022 and launched in 2023. It is run by an engaged couple in their 30s, Varsler and KinkyVagabond. They met at 1763. Varsler had served as a dungeon monitor there.
Decadent Desires acquired most of 1763's furnishings and committed to continuing the same education-first ethos: lectures and demonstrations, scene observation, dungeon monitors, no alcohol, real consent culture. They are not a copy of 1763. They are the next chapter.
This archive does not speak for them. If you are looking for the active venue, find Decadent Desires directly.
The building is gone. The dungeon is gone. What remains:
That last item is arguably the most important thing 1763 leaves behind. Standards travel. They outlast buildings.