PLAYING in the same church band, Liam Landon and his wife Kate lived quiet, unsuspecting lives – until a mind-blowing threesome.
Taken aback by the experience, it quenched their thirst to widen their pool of sexual partners – and now they lift the lid on their £4,000 retreats with wild orgies, flogging, bondage and “sensual” female-only parties.
Sam WongLiam Landon and Kate host bootcamps for swingers abroad where up to 26 people romp at the same time[/caption]
SuppliedKate also hosts female-only retreats which are more ‘nurturing’[/caption]
SuppliedGuests pictured at a villa on one of their female-only European retreats[/caption]
Nearly two decades after the life-changing threesome, the married bisexual couple are hosting bootcamps for swingers abroad where up to 26 people romp at the same time.
Kate, 49, a teacher for 23 years up until three years ago, also hosts her own female-only romp retreats where guests experiment with bondage, wax and a professional dominator.
The couple have hosted wild trips to Douro Valley in Portugal, staying at a boutique winery hotel and Tuscany, Italy.
They’ve also been to Provence, France and Crete in Greece and charge around £4,400 for a trip.
By day, guests visit ancient ruins and immerse themselves in history with sightseeing and museums.
But by night, the trips turn into wild orgies in rented villas where couples have sex with each other in the open or choose to get involved with other couples.
Kate’s own female-only escapes involve bondage, wax, a sensual experience party and sex with other women.
She told The Sun: “The women can explore in a super safe space together because there are no men present.
“It’s more caring, more nurturing and it allows, and here I am talking on behalf of the women, to really explore these things in a way they might not feel comfortable otherwise.
“It’s a three-day event and we’re leading very slowly up to the final night’s sensual experience party.
“So I’m bringing in a professional dominator, she’s going to set up an entire sensory play space where you can experience different kinds of things like wax play or electro play or impact play.
“Impact play is spanking and flogging. Electro play uses a hand-held device to deliver a small electrical shock to the skin as an erotic experience.”
Kate says each room at their rented houses caters to different sensory experiences.
For some women just having their hair played with is a very sensual experience, being touched lightly and having different kinds of sensation like ice cubes or feathers
Kate Landon
“If you just want a sensual massage with spa music, there’s an area for that,” she said.
“If you want a more social space where you want to move your body and dance, there’s a space for that.
“By the end of the weekend, once they’ve had that opportunity to discuss it and think about it, actually putting their bodies in those spaces where they can experience different sensations and different pleasures and see what they like.
“Often people are surprised by what they like. There certainly can be sex between women. A lot of women have reached out and said, can I come on these trips if I’m not a bisexual woman?
“The answer is absolutely yes.”
‘Pleasure in new ways’
The former teacher says one of the goals of the boot camps is to move away from the “construct” that sex is between two straight people.
She says: “For some women, just having their hair played with is a very sensual experience, being touched lightly and having different kinds of sensations like ice cubes or feathers.
“All of those things are sensual and can create pleasure in new and surprising ways, but they don’t necessarily require the involvement of your genitals.
“But when we had our sensual touch party last year, I think there were three or four women out of the 25 there who had a sexual experience together.”
Kate, who runs the Monogamish Marriage Podcast with Landon, retired from teaching in 2022 and decided to start a business that takes non-monogamous couples away to holiday hotspots.
SuppliedOne of the houses rented by Kate and Liam for their swinger bootcamps[/caption]
SuppliedKate says she offers more ‘sensual’ experiences for women who want to get in touch with their sexual side[/caption]
SuppliedWomen are in a ‘super safe space together because there are no men present’[/caption]
Sam WongLiam Landon and Kate were in the same church band[/caption]
She said: “We’ve been to all the resorts like Desire and Hedonism II, and we were seeing the strengths and weaknesses of those experiences.
“Then we went with a group of 10 couples who were all non-monogamous to Italy for one of our friends’ weddings there.
“The 20 people came together in Italy for a three or four-day period, and we had all kinds of fun.
“I thought, this is it, this is what I want. I don’t want to go sit on a beach and scream over bass music for a week; I want to see things. I want to go to museums, eat great food and drink great wine, but with like-minded people.
“So we came back from that trip and started looking around for companies that offered this, and there weren’t any that I could find.
“I thought well, I’m a good planner and organiser, I’ll see what I can do. We had a podcast, and we had an audience in a market.
“So we had one trip in 2023 and it was very successful, and now we’re now in our third year.”
She added: “We had this Medici villa in Tuscany and it was turned into an eyes wide open kind of space. There was a lot of sexy stuff happening.”
Wild threesomes
Kate says their venture into a non-monogamous lifestyle all began when they met in a very surprising place – their local church.
Landon, 63, who lives in Toronto, Canada, with his wife, told The Sun: “We were both married to other people in a church environment where we were members of the worship team.
“Kate was a singer, I was a bass player, and we got to know each other in slow motion, not even imagining a relationship happening.
“Then we just got closer and closer until we realised that we had more in common with each other than our spouses, so we got out of those marriages as quickly as we could.
“It was one month for her and six months for me, and non-monogamy was baked into the relationship right from the beginning.”
Kate, who had previously had threesomes with her ex-husband, decided that she would bring her female best friend into the mix – a move that would be a life-altering experience for the couple.
Landon, who has three children from his previous marriage, also described the threesome as “opposite to any porn depiction I had ever seen”.
Sam WongLiam Landon and Kate have hosted trips in Provence, France and Crete in Greece and charge around £4,400 for a trip[/caption]
SuppliedA villa where Kate and Liam host bootcamps for swingers[/caption]
SuppliedTheir venture into a non-monogamous lifestyle all began with a threesome with one of Kate’s best friends[/caption]
Sam WongLiam Landon and Kate wanted to widen their ‘available sexual partners’[/caption]
Kate, who has two children from her previous marriage, told The Sun: “I had been having threesomes with my best female friend and my ex-husband.
“And I learned that I was bisexual, and when that marriage ended, I continued to connect with her.
“We thought about dating for a while once that marriage was over, but I realised that Liam was pretty special.
“So I brought her into this relationship, and the three of us started having threesomes. It was anything but tawdry; it was this kind of beautiful connection of these two people that I really loved, and I was the centre point between them.
“So we had a relationship with her for about a year and a half, where we brought her in pretty regularly, and then we just started looking around and figuring out: what are other ways we can do this and other places we can experience things? So that’s where it started.”
Soon after, they decided to explore a sex club in Toronto before heading to Hedonism II, a notorious sex club in Jamaica.
She added: “We went to a sex club here in Toronto, and then we went to Hedonism II in Jamaica. So we just started talking to people and asking them, ‘Where do you find people?’.
“And there are apparently lots of online dating websites for couples that we had never even thought to look into.
“So then we started dating people online, meeting for dinner, talking to more people and then getting invited to more events and parties, so the circle expanded.
“The network effect in the non-monogamous world is super strong because you meet great people, you’re by definition not possessive.
“So what you want to do when you meet someone great is to introduce them to someone who’s also great that they should meet. We’ve been the beneficiaries of that.”
Kate says her female-only retreats are particularly important to allow women to explore their “wildest” desires that may be suppressed by their need to be caregivers.
She continued: “I do women’s retreats in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee with a good friend of mine who is a therapist and a yoga instructor.
“The focus of the weekend is accessing your pleasure because women who are sexually open want to experience pleasure.
“We’re open to it, but quite often we get into this because we want to please our husbands or we feel like in the moment, with other people, our focus is external.
“As women, we are socialised to be caregivers and nurturers, so the weekend is all about turning inward and asking ourselves, what’s in this for me?
“Where’s my authentic pleasure coming from in these situations? And how can I ask for what I want and say no to what I don’t want?
“It’s like having an internal conversation with your desire and asking, ‘What do I really want? And letting desire speak.’
“Letting it speak its fears, wildest hopes and dreams and then sharing that with each other in a group setting where you just talk about it.
“‘Here’s what I would really want’ and ‘here’s what I’ve never even told my husband that I might like to have happen, but here’s the block, this is what I’m afraid of, this is the insecurity and what’s standing in the way.
“Then talking through it and just feeling less alone in those feelings.”