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I believe there is a critical story to tell about how the women whoparticipate in these events are often marginalized, even if they attendof their own volition. One female investor who had heard of theseparties before I approached her told me, “Women are participating inthis culture to improve their lives. They are an underclass in SiliconValley.” A male investor who works for one of the most powerful men intech put it this way: “I see a lot of men leading people on, sleepingwith a dozen women at the same time. But if each of the dozen womendoesn’t care, is there any crime committed? You could say it’sdisgusting but not illegal—it just perpetuates a culture that keepswomen down.”. Men show up only if directly invited by the host, and they can oftenbring as many women as they want, but guys can’t come along asplus-ones.

(That would upset the preferred gender ratio.) Invitationsare shared via word of mouth, Facebook, Snapchat (perfect, becausemessages soon disappear), or even basic Paperless Post. Nothing in thewording screams “sex party” or “cuddle puddle,” in case theinvitation gets forwarded or someone takes a screenshot. Besides,there’s no need to spell things out; the guests on the list understandjust what kind of party this is. Women too will spread the word amongtheir female friends, and the expectations are hardly hidden.

“Theymight say, ‘Do you want to come to this really exclusive hot party? Thetheme is bondage,’ ” one female entrepreneur told me.

“ ‘It’s at thisV.C. Or founder’s house and he asked me to invite you.’ ”“IT’S VERY RISKY—ONCE YOU’RE IN THAT CIRCLE, ONCE YOU DECIDE YOU WANTTO PLAY THE GAME, YOU CAN’T BACK OUT.”Perhaps this culture is just one of the many offshoots of the sexuallyprogressive Bay Area, which gave rise to the desert festival of freeexpression Burning Man, now frequented by the tech elite. Still, thevast majority of people in Silicon Valley have no idea these kinds ofsex parties are happening at all. If you’re reading this and shakingyour head saying, “This isn’t the Silicon Valley that I know,” you maynot be a rich and edgy male founder or investor, or a female in tech inher 20s. And you might not understand, anyway. “Anyone else who is onthe outside would be looking at this and saying, Oh my God, this is sofucked up,” one female entrepreneur told me. “But the people in ithave a very different perception about what’s going on.”.

This is how the night goes down, according to those who have attended.Guests arrive before dinner and are checked in by private securityguards, who will turn you away if you’re not on the list. Sometimes theevening is catered.

But at the most intimate gatherings, guests willcook dinner together; that way they don’t have to kick out the helpafter dessert. Alcohol lubricates the conversation until, after thefinal course, the drugs roll out. Some form of MDMA, a.k.a.

Ecstasy orMolly, known for transforming relative strangers into extremelyaffectionate friends, is de rigueur, including Molly tablets that havebeen molded into the logos of some of the hottest tech companies. Somerefer to these parties as “E-parties.”MDMA is a powerful and long-lasting drug whose one-two punch of euphoriaand manic energy can keep you rolling for three or four hours.

Asdopamine fires, connections spark around the room, and normalinhibitions drop away. People start cuddling and making out. Thesearen’t group orgies, per se, but guests will break out into twosomes orthreesomes or more. They may disappear into one of the venue’s manyrooms, or they may simply get down in the open. Night turns to day, andthe group reconvenes for breakfast, after which some may haveintercourse again.

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Eat, drugs, sex, repeat.These sex parties happen so often among the premier V.C. And foundercrowd that this isn’t a scandal or even really a secret, I’ve been told;it’s a lifestyle choice. This isn’t Prohibition or the McCarthy era,people remind me; it’s Silicon Valley in the 21st century. No one hasbeen forced to attend, and they’re not hiding anything, not even ifthey’re married or in a committed relationship. They’re just beingdiscreet in the real world. Many guests are invited ascouples—husbands and wives, boyfriends and girlfriends—because openrelationships are the new normal.While some parties may be devoted primarily to drugs and sexualactivity, others may boast just pockets of it, and some guests can becaught unawares. In June 2017, one young woman—let’s call her JaneDoe—received a Paperless Post invite for “a party on the edge of theearth” at the home of a wealthy venture capitalist.

The inviterequested “glamazon adventurer, safari chic and jungle tribal attire.”Ironically, the gathering was held just a week after sexual-harassmentallegations against Binary Capital co-founder Justin Caldbeck had beenreported, but that didn’t seem to discourage certain guests fromindulging in heavy petting in the open.“It was in the middle of the Binary thing,” Jane Doe told me,referring to the scandal at the V.C. “And it was all soridiculous.” Doe found herself on the floor with two couples, includinga male entrepreneur and his wife. The living room had been blanketed inplush white faux fur and pillows, where, as the evening wore on, severalpeople lay down and started stroking one another, Doe said, in whatbecame a sizable cuddle puddle.

One venture capitalist, dressed up as abunny (it’s unclear how this fit into the edge-of-the-earth theme),offered Jane Doe some powder in a plastic bag. It was Molly. “They saidit will just make you feel relaxed and you’re going to like beingtouched,” Doe recounted to me.Nervous, she dipped her finger into the powder and put it in her mouth.Soon, her guard dropped. Then, the male founder asked if he could kissher. “It was so weird,” she says. “I’m like, ‘Your wife is rightthere; is she O.K. With this?’ ” The founder’s wife acknowledged that,yes, she was O.K.

Jane Doe, who considers herself fairlyadventurous and open-minded, kissed the founder, then becameuncomfortable, feeling as if she had been pressured or targeted. “Idon’t know what I’m doing, I feel really stupid, I’m drugged up becauseI’d never taken it before, and he knew I’d never taken it,” sherecalled.

She tried to escape to a different area of the party. “I feltgross because I had participated in making out with him and then he kepttrying to find me and I kept trying to run away and hide. I remembersaying to him, ‘Aren’t people going to wonder?’ And he said, ‘The peoplethat know me know what is going on, and the people that don’t, I don’treally care.’ ” Before dawn, she jumped into her car and left.“What’s not O.K. About this scene is that it is so money- andpower-dominated. It’s a problem because it’s an abuse of power.

I wouldnever do it again.”. While this particular woman felt ambushed, if it’s your first time, afriend will normally fill you in on what you’re signing up for, and youare expected to keep it to yourself.

You know that if you do drugs withsomeone you work with you shouldn’t mention it to anyone, and the samegoes with sex. In other words, we’re not hiding anything, but, actually,we kind of are. You only get invited if you can be trusted and if you’regoing to play ball. “You can choose not to hook up with aspecific someone, but you can’t not hook up with anybody, becausethat would be voyeurism. So if you don’t participate, don’t come in,”says one frequent attendee, whom I’ll call Founder X, an ambitious,world-traveling entrepreneur. They don’t necessarily see themselves as predatory. When they look inthe mirror, they see individuals setting a new paradigm of behavior bypushing the boundaries of social mores and values.

“What’s making thispossible is the same progressiveness and open-mindedness that allows usto be creative and disruptive about ideas,” Founder X told me. When Iasked him about Jane Doe’s experience, he said, “This is a privateparty where powerful people want to get together and there are a lot ofwomen and a lot of people who are fucked up. At any party, there can bea situation where people cross the line. Somebody fucked up, somebodycrossed the line, but that’s not an indictment on the cuddle puddle;that’s an indictment on crossing the line. Doesn’t that happeneverywhere?” It’s worth asking, however, if these sexual adventurersare so progressive, why do these parties seem to lean so heavily towardmale-heterosexual fantasies?

Women are often expected to be involved inthreesomes that include other women; male gay and bisexual behavior isconspicuously absent. “Oddly, it’s completely unthinkable that guyswould be bisexual or curious,” says one V.C.

Who attends and is married(I’ll call him Married V.C.). “It’s a total double standard.” In otherwords, at these parties men don’t make out with other men. And, outsideof the new types of drugs, these stories might have come out of thePlayboy Mansion circa 1972.I had a wide-ranging conversation with Twitter co-founder Evan Williamsabout the peculiar mixture of audacity, eccentricity, and wealth thatswirls in Silicon Valley. Williams, who is married with two kids, becamean Internet celebrity thanks to his first company, Blogger.

He pointedout that he was never single, well known, and rich at the same time, andthat he isn’t part of this scene, but recognizes the motivations of hispeers. “This is a strange place that has created incredible things inthe world and therefore attracts these types of people and enables thesetypes of people. How could it be anything but weird and dramatic andpeople on the edge testing everything?” On the one hand, he said, “ifyou thought like everyone else, you can’t invent the future,” yet healso warned that, sometimes, this is a “recipe for disaster.”Rich men expecting casual sexual access to women is anything but a newparadigm.

But many of the A-listers in Silicon Valley have somethingunique in common: a lonely adolescence devoid of contact with theopposite sex. Described his teenage life as years ofplaying computer games and not going on a date until he was 20 yearsold. Now, to his amazement, he finds himself in a circle of trusted andadventurous tech friends with the money and resources to explore theirevery desire. After years of restriction and longing, he is living afantasy, and his wife is right there along with him.Married V.C.’s story—that his current voraciousness is explained byhis sexual deprivation in adolescence—is one I hear a lot in SiliconValley. They are finally getting theirs. When I tell her this, Ava, a young female entrepreneur, rolls her eyes.According to Ava, who asked me to disguise her real identity and hasdated several founders, it’s the men, not the women, who seem obsessedwith displays of wealth and privilege.

She tells of being flown toexotic locations, put up in fancy hotels, and other ways rich men haveused their money to woo her. Backing up Ava’s view are the profiles onefinds on dating apps where men routinely brag about their tech jobs orstart-ups. In their online profiles, men are all but saying, “Hello,would you like to come up to my loft and see my stock options?”In Ava’s experience, however, once men like this land a woman, they arequick to throw her back. After a few extravagant dates, Ava says, shewill initiate a conversation about where the tryst is going.

The menthen end things, several using the same explanation. “They say, ‘I’mstill catching up. I lost my virginity when I was 25,’ ” Ava tells me.“And I’ll say, ‘Well, you’re 33 now, are we all caught up yet?’ In anyother context, these fancy dates would be romantic, but insteadit’s charged because no one would fuck them in high school. Ihonestly think what they want is a do-over because women wouldn’t bonethem until now.”Ava’s jaundiced view of newly wealthy moguls would be funny if theirgold-digger obsession didn’t mask something serious.

The claim of beingstalked by women often becomes an excuse used by some tech stars tojustify their own predatory behavior.What that adds up to is a great deal of ego at play. “It’s awesome,”says Founder X. At work, he explains, “you’re well funded. You haverelative traction.” Outside work, “why do I have to compromise? Why doI have to get married? Why do I have to be exclusive? If you’ve got acouple girls interested in you, you can set the terms and say, ‘This iswhat I want.’ You can say, ‘I’m happy to date you, but I’m notexclusive.’ These are becoming table stakes for guys who couldn’t get agirl in high school.”Furthermore, these elite founders, C.E.O.’s, and V.C.’s see themselvesas more influential than most hot-shit bankers, actors, and athleteswill ever be.

“We have more cachet than a random rich dude because wemake products that touch a lot of people,” says Founder X. “You make amovie, and people watch it for a weekend.

You make a product, and ittouches people’s lives for years.”At least on the financial level, Founder X has a point. The payouts ofA-list actors and the wolves of Wall Street just aren’t that impressiveamong the Silicon Valley elite. Managing directors at top-tierinvestment banks may pocket a million a year and be worth tens ofmillions after a long career. Early employees at tech firms like Uber,Airbnb, and Snapchat can make many times that amount of money in amatter of years. Celebrities such as Ashton Kutcher, Jared Leto, andLeonardo DiCaprio have jumped on that power train and now make personalinvestments in tech companies. The basketball great Kobe Bryant startedhis own venture-capital firm. LeBron James has rebranded himself as notjust an athlete but also an investor and entrepreneur.

When I spoke about Silicon Valley’s sex parties—specifically thosewhere women vastly outnumber men—with Elisabeth Sheff, aChattanooga-based writer and professor who has spent two dec­adesresearching open relationships, her reaction was heated: “That’sexploitation. That’s old-school, fucked-up masculine arrogance andborderline prostitution,” she said. “The men don’t have to prostitutethemselves, because they have the money. ‘I should be able tohave sex with a woman because I’m a rich guy.’ That is not even oneparticle progressive; that is the same tired bullshit. It’s trying toblend the new and keeping the old attitudes, and those old attitudes arebased in patriarchy, so they come at the expense of women.”Jennifer Russell, who runs the established Camp Mystic at Burning Man,is more sympathetic. “Men and women are equally drawn to creating astructure that invites their full sexual expression, and events likethis are a safe place to dabble,” she says. “It’s way better than aswingers’ club would feel because this is at a home and you aresurrounded by people you know.”Married V.C.

Admits, however, that for many men these parties aren’t somuch about self-expression as they are about simply sport fucking.“Some guys will whip out their phones and show off the trophy galleryof girls they’ve hooked up with,” he says. “Maybe this is behaviorthat happened on Wall Street all the time, but in a way they owned it.These founders do this, but try not to own it. They talk about diversityon one side of their mouth, but on the other side they say all of thisshit.”. The New Paradigm for Women Getting ScrewedFor successful women in Silicon Valley, the drug-and-sex-party scene isa minefield to navigate. This isn’t a matter of Bay Area tech womenbeing more prudish than most; I doubt recent history has ever seen acohort of women more adventurous or less restrained in exploring sexualboundaries. The problem is that the culture of sexual adventurism nowpermeating Silicon Valley tends to be more consequential for women thanfor men, particularly as it relates to their careers in tech. Take multi-time entrepreneur Esther Crawford, who is familiar with sexparties (specifically those with an equal gender ratio and strict rulesaround consent) and talks openly about her sexual experiments and openrelationships.

For four years, she had been in a non-monogamous (theysay “monogamish”) relationship with Chris Messina, a former Google andUber employee best known for inventing the hashtag. More recently,Crawford and Messina have started a company together calledMolly—perhaps not un-coincidentally the same name as the drug—wherethey are developing a “nonjudgmental (artificially intelligent) friendwho will support your path to more self-awareness.” They also chose tobecome monogamous for a while; seeing other people was getting toocomplicated. “The future of relationships is not just with humans butA.I. Characters,” Crawford told me. By December 2017, they had raised$1.5 million for their new company.

In the meantime, Crawford isacutely aware of the harsh reality that as a female entrepreneur shefaces so many challenges that men don’t. What she has found is that, fora woman, pushing private sexual boundaries comes with a price.When Crawford was raising funds for her second company, a social-mediaapp called Glmps, she went to dinner with an angel investor at a hiprestaurant on San Francisco’s Valencia Street.

At the end of the meal,he handed her a check for $20,000, then immediately tried to kiss her.“I certainly wasn’t coming on to him,” she asserts. “I kind of leanedback, and he ordered me an Uber, and I was like, ‘I gotta go home.’ ”Crawford thinks it’s likely that this particular investor knew about hersexual openness and found it difficult to think of her simply as anentrepreneur rather than as a potential hookup. This encounter is anexample of a unique penalty women face if they choose to participate inthe “we’re all cool about sex” scene.Ava was working as an executive assistant at Google when she ran intoher married boss at a bondage club in San Francisco.

He was getting ablow job from a woman strapped to a spanking bench who was being enteredby another man from behind. Ava and her boss, an engineer, locked eyesbut didn’t exchange a word and never spoke of the encounter again.However, a few months later, at a Google off-site event, another marriedmale colleague approached her. “He hits on me, and I was like, What areyou doing? Don’t touch me. Who are you again? He was like, I know whoyou are. The other guys said you like all this stuff.” Someone hadouted Ava.

She quit working at Google shortly thereafter. “The trustworks one way,” Ava says. “The stigma for a woman to do it is so muchhigher.

I’m supposed to be in this industry where everyone is open andaccepting, but as a woman the punishment is so much more unknown.”Crawford can’t even count the number of men who’ve told her how luckyshe is to have so many eligible men to date in the male-dominated techscene. “Of all the privileges in the world, that is not the one I wouldchoose,” she says fiercely. “I’d choose equal pay for equal work.

I’dchoose having better access to capital and power. I’d choose not beingpassed over for promotions. I’d choose not having to worry about beingin the 23.1 percent of undergraduate college women who get sexuallyassaulted. I’d choose not being slut-shamed if I do opt to explore mysexuality.”. Admits he might decline to hire or fund a woman he’s comeacross within his sex-partying tribe.

“If it’s a friend of a friend oryou’ve seen them half-naked at Burning Man, all these ties come intoplay,” he says. “Those things do happen. It’s making San Franciscofeel really small and insular because everybody’s dated everybody.” Menactually get business done at sex parties and strip clubs. But whenwomen put themselves in these situations, they risk losing credibilityand respect. The party scene is now so pervasive that women entrepreneurs say turningdown invitations relegates them to the uncool-kids’ table. “It’s veryhard to create a personal connection with a male investor, and if yousucceed, they become attracted to you,” one told me.

“They thinkyou’re part of their inner circle, and in San Francisco that meansyou’re invited to some kind of orgy. I couldn’t escape it here. Notdoing it was a thing.” Rather than finding it odd that she would attenda sex party, says this entrepreneur, people would be confused about hernot attending. “The fact that you don’t go is weird,” the entrepreneursaid, and it means being left out of important conversations. “Theytalk business at these parties.

They do business,” she said. “Theydecide things.” Ultimately, this entrepreneur got so fed up that shemoved herself and her start-up to New York and left Silicon Valley forgood.The women who do say yes to these parties rarely see a big businesspayoff. “There is a desire to be included and invited to these kinds ofthings and sometimes it felt like it was productive to go and you couldget ahead faster by cultivating relationships in this way,” one femaletech worker told me.

“Over time, I realized that it’s false advertisingand it’s not something women should think is a way to get ahead. It’svery risky—once you’re in that circle, once you decide you want toplay the game, you can’t back out. If you really believe that’s going toget you to a serious place in your career, that’s delusion.”Another female entrepreneur described the unfair power dynamic that’screated. “There is this undercurrent of a feeling like you’reprostituting yourself in order to get ahead because, let’s be real, ifyou’re dating someone powerful, it can open doors for you.

And that’swhat women who make the calculation to play the game want, but theydon’t know all the risks associated with it,” she said. “If you doparticipate in these sex parties, don’t ever think about starting acompany or having someone invest in you. Those doors get shut. But ifyou don’t participate, you’re shut out.

You’re damned if you do, damnedif you don’t.”It hearkens back to those popular 1980s teen movies which tell the“heartwarming” story of a glasses-wearing nerd who is transformed intothe cool, funny kid who gets all the hot chicks. But we’re not living ateenage dream. Great companies don’t spring magically to life when anerd gets laid three times in a row. Great companies are built in theoffice, with hard work put in by a team. The problem is that weekendviews of women as sex pawns and founder hounders can’t help but affectweekday views of women as colleagues, entrepreneurs, and peers.Adapted from by Emily Chang, to be published on February 6, 2018, by Portfolio, animprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random HouseLLC; © 2018 by the author.CORRECTION: A photo with incorrect caption information has been removed from the story.