I put off rewriting the Auckland page for years because every time I looked into it, half the old links were dead and the other half redirected to businesses that had rebranded twice since 2019. That’s mostly still true. Auckland’s kink scene is small, word of mouth, and allergic to having its address printed anywhere permanent, which makes it a lousy fit for a guide like this and also exactly the kind of city where a guide like this is most useful. New Zealand doesn’t do mega-clubs. It does one dungeon-for-hire that changes hands, one rope teacher who’s been at it since 2011, one swingers lounge on Hobson Street that’s outlasted three governments, and a handful of adult shops on K Road that have seen every trend come and go without changing the carpet. Take it slow, RSVP where you’re asked to, and don’t expect Berlin-scale production values. You’re not going to get them here, and that’s sort of the point.
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BDSM and Fetish Clubs
The Chilli Club
The Chilli Club has been running out of an industrial unit at 3122 Great North Road in New Lynn for about fifteen years now, which in adult-venue years makes it practically a heritage building. It’s a 200 square metre play space with a licensed bar, a stripper pole with mirrors, a sex swing, showers, and enough lounging rooms that a party doesn’t feel like one big room of people watching each other. The club itself is really a venue for hire, so what you get on any given night depends on who’s booked it, from private swinger parties to gangbang shoots to the kink nights I’ve written about separately below. Email ahead ([email protected]) rather than just showing up, since it isn’t open as a walk-in bar.
CHOKE (Chilli House of Kink Events)
CHOKE is the kink and BDSM programming that runs out of the Chilli Club space, and it’s the closest thing Auckland has to a dedicated fetish club night. It bills itself as part of the recognised Auckland Kink and BDSM community, which in practice means a small, tightly self-policed crowd rather than an open-door club scene. House rules are strict and spelled out in advance: 18+ with ID checks, RED as the universal safeword, phones and any recording devices switched off and stowed the moment you walk in, and hard lines against blood, needle, breath, and scat play. One recent event, a “Fuckit Party,” ran 8pm to 2:30am for $20 a head, which gives you a sense of scale, this is not a venue charging cover-band-tour prices. Watch their events page or Facebook for dates since there’s no fixed weekly night.
CCK
CCK has been the standing swingers lounge in Auckland Central for longer than almost anything else on this list, tucked into 246C Hobson Street. It’s run by Karl and Chloe, who’ve built it around a strict, printed rulebook precisely so new couples don’t walk in and bolt within ten minutes, and the venue backs that up with a proper bar, a dancing cage and pole, a St Andrews Cross, a swing, a black room, and five separate play areas. The programming splits by night: some evenings are couples-meet-single-guys, others are couples-and-single-ladies, and there are periodic theme weekends layered on top. It’s swingers-first rather than BDSM-first, but the equipment on site means anyone into impact or bondage play won’t feel out of place. Check cck.co.nz for the current week’s theme before booking.
Rope and Workshops
Auckland Rope Dojo
Scarlet Darling has been teaching shibari in New Zealand since 2011, and the Rope Dojo in Glen Eden is still, as far as I can find, the only dedicated rope space in the city. It runs weekly classes that start at genuine beginner level, no experience or partner required, alongside monthly BDSM-adjacent workshops and periodic play parties out of the same space. I’ll flag one honest caveat: the dojo’s public web presence (Facebook, Instagram) has gone quieter over the past couple of years, with the most recent visible activity dating back a while, so I’d confirm a class is actually on before you make plans around it rather than assuming the old weekly schedule still holds exactly as printed. FetLife is reportedly the most current source for the real-time calendar.
Studio de Sade (dungeon hire)
Studio de Sade has operated for years as Auckland’s rentable dungeon space, listed under dungeon-hire.nz, with a fit-out built specifically for BDSM scening rather than a repurposed spare room. I could not get the site to load while researching this piece, and cached search snippets describe it as “undergoing some changes” with a promise to be back, which reads as anything from a routine relaunch to a quiet wind-down. I’m not confident enough to call it either open or closed right now. If you’re set on a proper dungeon rental rather than a club night, message them on Facebook (@StudioDeSade) first and get a live confirmation before you build a trip around it.
Munches and Social Groups
This is the thinnest section of the guide, and I’d rather tell you that straight than pad it out. Auckland’s kink community runs mostly through private FetLife groups and word of mouth rather than a public, standing munch calendar the way you’d find in Berlin or Chicago. The community I found most often cited as organised, Uncommon Bonds, is genuinely excellent, monthly munches on the second Tuesday, regular play parties, workshops, and special interest groups, but it’s based in Christchurch, not Auckland, so it’s a reason to extend a South Island trip rather than something you can drop into on a Tuesday night in the city. For Auckland specifically, your best route in is the Chilli Club and CHOKE’s own mailing list and FetLife presence, which double as the de facto community hub since there isn’t a separate standalone munch organisation running the same way. If you’re new to the city and kinky, join the FetLife groups a few weeks before you land and ask who’s hosting what that month.
Strip Clubs and Adult Nightlife
Calendar Girls
Calendar Girls sits at 243 Karangahape Road and is still very much open, part of a small NZ chain with sister clubs in Wellington and Christchurch. It runs Wednesday to Saturday, 7pm to 6am, and markets itself as the polished end of Auckland’s strip club scene, private rooms, booth service, and hosted celebration nights rather than a dive-bar stage show. It’s the venue I’d point a first-timer to if they want a strip club experience without any of the rough edges some of K Road’s older rooms still carry.
Vixens Gentlemen’s Club
Vixens has a main door at 25 Cross Street and a discreet second entrance around the back on Canada Street, open Tuesday to Sunday, 4pm to 1am on weeknights and until 3am Friday and Saturday. Worth knowing before you go: recent listings describe it operating alongside private suite and massage services under the same roof, so it reads today as much closer to a hybrid gentlemen’s club and adult services venue than a traditional stage-and-pole strip club. If you’re after the latter, Calendar Girls is the more straightforward booking.
Caluzzi Cabaret
Caluzzi is not kink, but no Auckland adult-nightlife guide is complete without it, and honestly it’s one of the best nights out in the city regardless of what you’re into. Running on K Road since 1996, it’s Australasia’s longest continuously operating drag cabaret, a three-course dinner paired with a full drag show, currently fronted by Kita Mean and Anita Wigl’it of RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under fame. It hit its 30th birthday in 2026 with a dedicated showcase for the Auckland Live Cabaret Festival. Book ahead, this one sells out on weekends well in advance.
Fetish Shopping
Peaches and Cream
Peaches and Cream is Auckland’s biggest name in adult retail, Kiwi-owned with the flagship store at 474 Karangahape Road (a second, smaller K Road location runs at 348) and further branches spread across the country. The K Road megastore stocks toys, lubricants, lingerie, and a genuinely deep bondage and fetish gear section, not just an afterthought shelf near the register. Hours run long, roughly 9am to midnight most nights and later on Friday and Saturday, which suits its position as a late-night K Road fixture as much as a daytime shop.
The Grinder
The Grinder is Peaches and Cream’s gay-focused sibling operation on K Road, stocking leather gear, bondage equipment, lingerie, toys, and adult DVDs alongside a small in-store cruising area at the back, making it as much a low-key gay social venue as a shop. There’s a second Grinder location in Takapuna on the North Shore for anyone based over the bridge. Both are 100% Kiwi owned and run.
Basement
Basement, at 12 Canada Street just off Upper Queen Street, is Auckland’s dedicated gay adult shop and cruise club combined under one roof. The retail side sells the standard DVDs, toys, and fetish gear, but the draw for most regulars is downstairs: a porn lounge, private rooms with beds, a small dungeon playroom, showers, glory holes, and themed areas. Hours run long into the night midweek and past midnight on weekends. It’s a men-only cruising environment, worth knowing before you turn up expecting a straightforward retail visit.
Gigi Adult Department Store
Gigi, at 222 Khyber Pass Road in Grafton, bills itself as New Zealand’s first adult department store, and the scale backs that up, thousands of products across toys, lingerie, lubricants, and novelties in a bright, browsable layout that’s a deliberate contrast to the dimmer, more cruise-oriented K Road shops. Open every day, 10am to 10pm. Staff get consistently good word of mouth for being patient with first-timers, which makes it the shop I’d point a nervous beginner toward over the others on this list.
A Closing Note
Auckland isn’t going to out-produce Berlin or Miami on scale, and I stopped expecting it to years ago. What it has is continuity: CCK and Calendar Girls have both been running essentially unchanged for over a decade, the Chilli Club has hosted alternative lifestyle events for fifteen years straight, and Scarlet Darling has been teaching rope since before half the people reading this had heard the word shibari. The flip side is that a couple of the smaller, more DIY listings from the old version of this page, the private-dungeon operators and the looser workshop brands, simply don’t have a verifiable public footprint anymore, and I’d rather cut them than send you chasing a venue that’s gone quiet. Lead with FetLife and direct email over Google when you’re actually planning a visit, most of this community still runs that way on purpose.