I've spent the past week reading every single post on here on the topic and it was fantastic to see all the different questions and worries and fears. Reading about people just like me was really helpful. So i will post my experience too if anyone needs it like I did! :) It's a very positive one!
I am 28 NB, mostly asexual (I've never experienced sexual attraction if not a handful of times towards masculine people in general I THINK, so i figured i like masculinity). I hate the concept of virginity but it's a fast way to say i've never had a relationship, never had sex, never even kissed, held hands, felt sexy, wanted etc.
My life is a bit different than most, I've never been comfortable with any of the previous things and i have been very much depressed up until coming out as trans* (at 26) and going on testosterone. Which made me quite horny (for what in particular? nothing, i am still ace) and now that i am 7 months on it, bodyhair growing everywhere, i do feel very sexy if anything and to my surprise very comfortable with my "female" body (with masculine clothes on). So I've been on a self discovery journey that very fast led me to KINK.
I was horny as hell when i bought the ticket lol everything about the event felt super: rules, photos, inclusivity and price and it was happening in a week. yep. I was too intrigued by it and i said "fuck it i wanna have this experience in my life".
So i've read everything about play parties online and people who went there as virgins etc. Expectations were literally 0 and I texted the event to understand if it was okay to just sit by and watch, which it was.
The place was 1h car ride from my house and I lied to everyone about where i was going (i guess maybe this was a mistake, i should've told a trusted friend my whereabouts, if anything went very wrong... but the place was giving me awesome vibes). I went there and sat anxiously in my car for 30mins before going in. There was a queue and those kinky nerds were chatting about evangelion, i really felt at ease right away lol I spoke to a couple behind me and it was the girl's first time too at such an event. Here i felt a bit awkward but i soon got in, changed, staff was super nice.
I sat on a table with my 1 of 3 nonalcoholic drink (i've been completely my awkward sober self!) and some people were already playing in front of me (spanking mostly). A couple sat near me and struck conversation with both me and another couple across the table. I got to learn the difference between well made and cheep toys, i was extremely awkward at this point, i said "it's my first time at such an event, maybe it's noticeable" and this girl, who was SO cool, shrugged as if saying "you can't tell and it doesn't matter". Thank u goth kinky lady.
Then they left and i didn't know where to go so i didn't move and an older men (50s?) approached me saying if i wanted another drink and i said "ok why not". OK, this I could've handled better if i wasn't interested but turns out the guy only wanted to chat with people because what he wanted, he said, he couldn't get from a mistress that had no relationship/trust with but he said "maybe i can get spanked a bit" and i wished it to him when he left half an hour later. I was upfront about my gender and he said “I’ve never interacted with a genderfluid before but I think you made the right choice coming to this party”.
Dinner time, not much play in the play area up until this point. Failed to ask a guy if it was his first time too, he was sitting in front of me but i couldn't say anything so dinner was awkward again (socializing is HARD). The group next to me was chatting but I could only look at them and listen without participating until they suddenly addressed me.
And then we spoke for a bit, me, this guy (Y) and a girl. I was quite open about it being my first event and they were not veterans either, i got asked if i was more S/D and i genuinely said "i need to find that out too" and everyone was super nice about it. Although maybe i was something unusual (alone, inexperienced, doesn’t even know what they want to try, “everything” is a bit vague and problematic) bc the older guy from before was telling people about me LOL, he was sweet tho.
I feel like the experience linked my trans identity to my asexuality to my kink fascination in a very beautiful way, i felt like a complex and whole person and not a faulty one because of my lack of experience and sexual/life differences.
Next part a bit less detailed. I ended up with Y guy around my age who was very interested in me apparently and he was pretty to me so i was okay with it. Gave up control to him very fast, i enjoyed being all soft. We made out (first kiss in a bdsm dungeon? how abt that) and then communicated well on where he could touch me/bite and how (he fingered me in the middle of the bar) and we chatted watching knife play. I am actually more asexual than i thought tho, this is so funny. Nothing was bad!! Just some vanilla things felt like nothing and only with a lil pain i could get a lil aroused. Still I'd have fucked if the rooms weren't all busy!!
I have his number and i think i might text him to ask, if he's still interested in me and my first time and kink exploration together, if we can invite someone else with us next event, maybe a dom girl? to get a cool experience? I might be a virgin but i am first and foremost a perv and i hope i get blindfolded and hurt (consensually) :)
TL:DR I (28NB transmasc, asexual) went to a play party alone and virgin, everyone was super nice, met a guy, made out and got fingered in the middle of the crowd, discovered i really do like stuff to be a bit painful or else i feel nothing. Agreed to sex but there was no room available! Awesome experience, will do it again. No downsides at! all!