SNCTM sex club 'Jesus' launches exclusive French restaurant in LA

Doesn’t sound very hygienic! Founder of elite SNCTM sex club nicknamed ‘Jesus’ launches new FOREPLAY restaurant in LA, where diners will be allowed to get intimate in cozy booths behind velvet curtains

Damon Lawner, founder of the exclusive and erotic sex club SNCTM is now opening an erotic dinner club called ‘Puzzle’
To secure a reservation, prospective diners are required to apply in advance, disclose their net worth and pay annual fees of up to $10k
Lawner claims the restaurant will be different from his sex parties. ‘Think of Puzzle as more like foreplay than the full thing,’ he told the LA Times

The man behind Sanctum (SNCTM), generally hailed as the world’s most exclusive and elite sex club, is opening an erotic dinner club in LA called ‘Puzzle’, which he claims will be ‘more like foreplay than the full thing.’

Damon Lawner, 52, founder of SNCTM and so called ‘modern day sex Jesus’, is known for hosting extravagant sexual gatherings, where prospective members are required to provide photos of themselves beforehand, pay exorbitant annual fees reaching up to $75,000, and share their deepest turn-ons.

Now, after selling his sex club SNCTM for $1 million in 2019, Lawner has embarked on a new venture as the co-founder and co-owner of Puzzle, an exclusive French restaurant club set to open in West Hollywood this summer.

Puzzle is described as ‘a sensual utopia for fine dining and celebration in a members only sanctuary on the Sunset Strip,’ according to its website.

To secure a reservation at Puzzle, prospective diners are required to disclose their net worth, pay annual fees of up to $10,000, and respond to prompts such as ‘describe a dream night at Puzzle where anything you desire can be enjoyed’.

Damon Lawner, 52, founder of SNCTM and so called ‘modern day sex Jesus’, is known for hosting extravagant sexual gatherings

Lawner is recruiting a roster of ‘single ladies,’ offering the most ‘beautiful women’ in LA a special complimentary membership and full access to the private club for drinks on the house. Single Lady applicants are online and require Instagram handles for Lawner to review

The restaurant layout will feature 15 intimate tables, tucked away into cozy arched alcoves, and hidden behind thick velvet curtains that can be drawn shut for privacy

Although this sounds awfully similar to Lawner’s previous M.O at SNCTM, he claims the restaurant will be different from his sex parties.

‘Think of Puzzle as more like foreplay than the full thing,’ he told the Los Angeles Times.

The restaurant layout will feature 15 intimate tables, tucked away into cozy arched alcoves, and hidden behind thick velvet curtains that can be drawn shut for privacy.

There will be a DJ & dance areas and a swanky bar in an intimate, impeccably designed space, according to its website.

‘Puzzle is a refuge to indulge in the finest food, wine, Champagne and spirits with a curated group of intriguing individuals,’ the website writes.

What goes on behind the curtains, is none of Lawner’s business, he implied to the LA Times.

‘I have to tell people they cannot have sex. Like, I have to tell them that,’ he said. ‘Then the question becomes, well, what happens behind those curtains and what are grown-ups allowed to do in their own little private space? Am I going to peek my head in? No.’

Thomas Fuks co-founded Puzzle and brought Lawner onto the project at the start of the year.

Lawner met Fuks after he sold SNCTM and was working the nightclub circuit in LA where he was promoting at the time.

‘I sat with him and I told him, ‘I think you’re better than that,’ Fuks said, according to the LA Times. ‘He’s such a creative person; he has so much talent. I said, ‘You shouldn’t do this promoting, you should really create and bring your universe and take over the night.’

Lawner founded the members-only club SNCTM in 2013 and spent the next six years running the company – which he claimed took a toll on his 15 year marriage and his relationship with his two young daughters

Lawner sold SNCTM in 2019 for $1 million expressing his desire to separate himself from his previous identity and start fresh

Thomas Fuks co-founded Puzzle and brought Lawner onto the project at the start of the year. The goal is to ‘make it hot without being trashy,’ according to the LA Times

The team’s goal is to ‘make it hot without being trashy,’ Fuks said.

‘We’re still, to be honest with you, trying to figure out what we can and cannot do. It’s kind of tricky,’ he said to the LA Times. ‘It’s essential to make sure everybody’s on the same vibration and page and vision inside the room.’

The website emphasizes the ‘paramount’ importance of ‘privacy and pleasure’ at Puzzle.

‘In order to achieve top-notch service and true exclusivity our initial membership round is limited to 111 members,’ it writes.

There are four tiers of memberships listed on the website: Emerald, black, gold and single lady.

Lawner has already sold three-quarters of the memberships for Puzzle, including 10 out of the 11 of the most expensive Emerald-level slots, that cost $10,000 yearly, according to the LA Times.

23 Black-level memberships cost $5,000 and 75 Gold-level memberships cost $2,500.

The tiers correspond to priority access for reservations, with food and drinks not included in the annual fee.

He is also recruiting a roster of ‘single ladies,’ offering the most ‘beautiful women’ in LA a special complimentary membership and full access to the private club for drinks on the house.

Single Lady applicants are required Instagram handles for Lawner to review.

‘It’s our little hideaway for people who can afford it, and people who are attractive enough to join them,’ he said to the LA Times.

The restaurant is currently under construction and due to open this summer.

Claudia Fijal, one of the first women hired by Lawner to work as an ‘atmosphere model’ at Snctm when it initially opened, called him a ‘modern day sex Jesus’.

Speaking about the new restaurant, Lawner said: ‘I have to tell people they cannot have sex. Like, I have to tell them that’. But he added: Am I going to peek my head in? No.’

Members pay up to $50,000 to live out their wildest fantasies at the club’s Eyes Wide Shut-style sex parties

‘Damon to me is like the modern-day sex Jesus — I kind of feel like he sacrificed himself for the greater good of creating a culture for people that was needed, especially in a city like Los Angeles,’

‘I mean, he risked his marriage, he flipped his world upside down, she said according to the LA Times.

Despite Lawner’s efforts to tame his ways, ‘at the end of the day a lion is a lion,’ Fijal added.

‘It’s such a shame because he has this internal conflict all the time,’ she said to the LA Times. ‘Like on one hand you’re talking about monogamy, and now you’re talking about velvet curtains and handing out condoms.’

He sold it in 2019 – expressing his desire to separate himself from his previous identity and start fresh.

The elite sex club was reportedly loved by Gwyneth Paltrow and Bill Maher, with top secret masked orgy parties for ‘Ultra VIP’ celebrities and the ultra wealthy.

Attendees typically wore masks and costumes.

SNCTM, which was founded in Beverly Hills, California, hosts adult black-tie masquerades, private dinner soirees, pool parties, and quarterly classes on fetishes and eroticism.

Admittance to the elite club’s naughty nights is granted solely by application, and hopefuls are judged based on their reputation, image standard, stature, and whether they will be a ‘net for the atmosphere.’

Guests range from CEOs, members of the one percent, successful business people, actors, professional athletes, and artists — no names divulged, of course.

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