Photographer Donna Ferrato takes us back 40 years to the explicit scenes of Plato’s Retreat, an infamous Upper West Side haunt. (NSFW)
Donna continues to read in hushed, excited tones, her delivery a mix of delight and disgust for club owner Larry Levenson aka"The King of Swing" — whom she met on her very first assignment for magazine. A former fast-food manager, Bronx native Larry met a hot housewife in a Brooklyn cocktail lounge who took him to a swingers’ party in a Hoboken high-rise. Larry soon began hosting his own events before partnering with Brooklyn caterer Frank Perenice to put down roots at the Ansonia.
"You know what's amazing?" Donna says after closing the book, pointing to a previously unpublished photograph,"Pool of Fornication","I never studied that picture until yesterday. [All these years] I thought I missed the money shot, but I didn't. That picture is just like me — flicking my head up and then seeing the men masturbating. In a way, this is my bespoken self-portrait."It was an unexpected epiphany for a daughter of the Summer of Love.
Now 72, Donna still enjoys her lust for life."I have a kind of exuberance I probably inherited from my completely mad father, and it hasn't betrayed me yet," she says."It's what gets me into a lot of places, because I'm just there to see, have fun, and be part of it." After that first night at Plato's, Donna returned a handful of times with friends who were equally curious about the scene.
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