An attempt at mainstreaming and upscaling anonymous sex during the raffish days of NYC in the late 1970s, Plato’s Retreat in the Ansonia Hotel was a straight club where you could “make your dreams come true,” especially if those dreams involved penicillin–sexy, sexy penicillin. It was a place where the button-down set could go to unbutton alongside the sybarites. Jerzy Kosinski claimed he frequented not to participate but because, no kidding, he liked to watch. It was shuttered in 1985 when the city finally took belated action during the AIDS crisis. Here’s a 1977 public-access ad for the club.