Its a larger dungeon, whether Mistress Simone does sessions herself is only a small part of the business model. It is reliant on the whole community, both Dommes and subs, doing sessions and paying the rental fees for the space. It is reliant on being able to have parties and events (all of which are, as you correctly pointed out, severely limited by government order and by possible attendees rational fear of the virus). It is reliant on people traveling (which very very few people are).

This situation is a blip on the radar but standing up a dungeon, especially one of this quality, in an expensive proposition that you must be willing to lose money on (which few people are) in the short-term. Even when something opens to replace it and provide a space in a couple of years, the quality of that dungeon and equipment will not be of this level as all of that takes years and years to build.

Gyms are both ubiquitous and acceptable to the community around them. If one, or even ten, close another will rise up in its place in a year or two. Gyms are not a business based on some small and oppressed community of people with barriers to entry like having a landlord who is willing to accept (or at least look the other way at) the nature of the business; neighbors who are not going to have some "moral" issue with the space; or a govt/police who don't go out of their way to close it down. This is the reason there are zero dungeons like this in areas like Detroit, Nashville and Las Vegas (some of whom very much are wide open from a virus perspective) just to name a few metropolitan areas that have enough of a client base to easily support them.

It will take helf-a-decade or longer to replace a venue like this if we lose it and who knows if the owner of that new venue will be committed to the safety and privacy of those who visit. These venues are unique and have carved out a safe space to operate where one does not easily exist so we need to protect them and help them through this unnatural period if we can, regardless of your pussy-ass political commentary about the safety of major American cities.
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