At Skirt Club, Women Mix Business With Pleasure

“Do you think you might get on the body tequila table?” asks Geneviève LeJeune. The founder of the all-women networking society Skirt Club, LeJeune is with about 75 female professionals on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles at a bar called Mmhmmm, a thoroughly appropriate name considering the goings-on inside. One of the barely clad attendees stretches herself out, and lines of salt are spread down her legs, the red bottoms of her Louboutins reflecting in the mirrored walls. The fastest woman to lick the salt and down a tequila shot will be rewarded with a slice of lime, transferred via kiss.

The scene isn’t quite as scandalous as it sounds. Although Skirt Club bills itself in press releases as an “underground ‘play party’ for bisexual & bi-curious women,” no sexual contact or “heavy petting” are allowed. And it isn’t just about tequila-soaked fun. Skirt Club’s motto is “confidence in the bedroom leads to confidence in the boardroom.” The way LeJeune sees it, leaning in to take a lime out of a woman’s puckered lips makes a woman more likely to lean in at the office.