We always have so much fun at Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The place to be is Bourbon Street because there is this tremendous partying spirit there. We hang out with friends at this bar on Bourbon called Le Booze and this place has constant craziness going on. It all starts about 5 days before Fat Tuesday. Each night some girls with porn type websites come in there with their film crews and "entertain" the boys (taking off clothes, "teaching" guys how to kiss sensually, performing oral sex on each other and more). Some of the bar patrons emulate the girls and it can look like an orgy in there sometimes. And it's all legal thanks to a New Orleans law that says "anything goes" if you are inside a building.
Here are some of the other things that go on there:
- There are a group of guys who have been holding court as The Judges for the past 20 years (I'm one of them). They are professional types (lawyers, Dentists, sales managers, accountants) who dress up in British Judge costumes complete with flowing black robes and Barrister (white-haired long) wigs. They set up a "court" in part of the bar and the head Judge presides. Other Judges go into the crowds of Bourbon Street and get girls to come in and take their tops off. When they enter the "chambers" the "Jury" cheers them on and after the top comes off the Chief Judge makes his ruling ("She's a 'Ten'!"), sprays a nipple with water, plays with it and applies a temporary tattoo that says "10". The girl also gets a Certificate of Exposure, an ornate document with a bunch of legal mumbo jumbo. We laughed all day and got to see over 600 pairs of boobies. A few take their bottoms off too and they get "20"!
- We made this cardboard sign that says "Ask Me About My Nipple Charms" and went out into the partying crowds of Bourbon Street. A Nipple Charm comes in two types. One hangs from a nipple and looks like a dangling earring with jewels on it. Another type connects to both nipples and dangles between the boobs (see the photo above). When we found a willing girl, she'd pull her top up and we said we had to get her nipple hard for the charm to be "fitted", so we had to play with it (gently pull on it, squeeze it, maybe lick it if she'd let us). Oh, what fun! Then the nipple charm "noose" was gently slipped over the nipple and tightened and "voila!", we have a more-beautiful set of boobs. This was all just an excuse to play with strangers' boobs and we laughed non-stop.
- My girlfriend dresses up in a leopard print and leather dominatrix costume ("Betty Page") and I'm in my Judge's robes and wig and we go out onto Bourbon Street. When she sees a likely couple walking by she points her leather whipping paddle at the guy and asks the girl "Has he been a bad boy?!!!"... Invariably, the girl says "Yes!" so I, as Judge, say "I sentence you to 5 lashes" so the Dominatrix tells him to bend over and take his punishment and almost every guy will bend over and Betty whacks his ass with the paddle which has some flaps that make the swats sound worse than they really are. The crowds gather round and everyone is laughing their asses off and cameras are clicking. Many of the guys like it so much that they want more!
Some gay guys come over and beg us to whip them. We laughed all day.
So, if you ever get the chance, go stay in the French Quarter for the 5 days before and during Mardi Gras and be sure to wear a costume on Mardi Gras day. You WILL have fun! Or Betty Page will whip you!
