About the space
LoveNOX is a multidisciplinary bar-space that approaches sexuality from cultural and educational perspectives. It is known for being a place where its library and art exhibitions shape the intellectual side of the house. Its rooms, filled with sofas, are designed to encourage exchanges—like being in a living room and discussing sensitive topics such as prevention, harassment, and healthy practices of communication and agreements. Located in Sé, it is a place of debate that also offers room for breathing, care, and listening. A century-old manor that was restored and is today home to topics that are sometimes seen as contradictory or even censored, such as fetishes, abortion, gender identity, fatphobia, transphobia, and stigmas against neurodivergent and HIV-positive bodies. All of this culture is expressed through art and dialogue; it is at this intersection that LoveNOX was born.
The manor, which preserves its original layout, is divided into spaces furnished with second-hand finds and decorated with works donated or sponsored by partner artists and regular friends of the space.
The space is divided as follows:
- Entrance: Old black door with an external gate. Inside there is a flight of stairs with black steps and artworks on the walls. After the stairs, frames with our Code of Conduct, a notice restricting image capture, and compliance documents fill the walls.
- Basement: The basement is at street level, accessed beside the entrance door. It is a space still under development and features sofas, armchairs, cushions, rugs, a TV installed on the wall with its own system, artworks and frames, and a genuflexory next to our Suzário—a tribute to important people who helped build with us a safe and healthy network of positive sexuality and who are no longer with us.
- Art Corridor: The entrance corridor is composed of permanent and rotating works and hosts temporary art exhibitions. A long corridor with a red carpet, a console with a mirror, walls full of original works and some interactive pieces.
- Aftercare Room: A room with vintage furniture, including a dressing table, chest of drawers, wardrobe, sofa, cushions, a manequin, rug and works that evoke performance artists, along with a shelf of books on fashion, burlesque, lingerie and sexuality that relate to the theme. There is also a private changing area. The chest and wardrobe are stocked with costumes, lingerie, props, accessories and makeup provided by partner artists and may be used (upon request) by the public.
- Safeword Room: A room for practices and a more intimate environment. Equipped with an X, armchairs, a trunk with fetish and BDSM items that can be used by the public (upon request), a floor lamp and a chandelier with red bulbs, a set of giant dice for erotic play, and a shelf with books from the kink universe.
- Performance Hall: The main space where performances, scenes and general practices take place, equipped with sofas, armchairs, side tables, rugs, lamps and a chandelier with warm bulbs; a high beam with an attachment point for aerial practices and shibari; a suspension cage for bondage; shelves with books on positive sexuality, gender, erotic art, comics, the history of sexuality and books by partner artists; magazines and zines; original artworks; and a screen with a projector.
- Box Office: At the box office, sales are made through tokens that must be taken to the bar to collect the order. The box office also handles cloakroom, convenience items, artworks and posters and/or informational materials. It also features a collection of novelty dildos.
- Bar: Our bar offers a menu of classic cocktail drinks, soft beverages and bottles of wine, as well as occasional drinks and beverages according to each event theme. A glass cabinet serves as a display and shop, with partner items such as candles, books, ropes, stickers and other rotating items. The space also features artworks on display.
- Restroom: With two stalls, the restroom is equipped with internal and external condoms, lubricant gel, disposable hygienic shower, sanitary pads and wet wipes, and of course toilet paper and interleaved paper at the sink. A vintage iron bathtub completes the decor alongside a collage artwork and original stickers inside the stalls.
With its modular format the house adapts to each event. The ambient sound is fixed for periodic events and can turn the room into a dance floor with DJs for special events. The large windows that ornament the rooms are closed at 1:00 AM, in accordance with local noise regulations.
The house team is trained and ready to provide support in any situation that may occur; do not hesitate to approach a staff member if you need assistance.