MELBOURNE -- Eviction and more code-enforcement violations loom for The Hunt Club of Brevard, an underground swingers club that is under pressure to abstain from hosting sexually steeped soirees.
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Melbourne officials and an irritated landlord want to close the club, which operates out of a yellow rented home on a residential cul-de-sac in the serene Oak Groves subdivision.
Bedeviled by opposition, club operators Richard Spalding and Kirsi Page face $250 daily code enforcement fines if they host swingers' parties after today. Recent examples of their events have been "Naughty Girls, Ice Cream and High Heels Social," a pajama party and a paper-mask masquerade, according to various Web sites.
In a Tuesday e-mail to Code Enforcement Administrator Dan Porsi, Page contended that her club is a private group, not a business. She stated that Melbourne officials were "making up ridiculous fines and singling out a few people to persecute."
"Fully grown adults will not tolerate being told who they can and cannot have sex with," Page wrote. "Twisting existing laws or making up new ones to punish people for their sex lives is not only arrogant and misguided, but also corrupt in the sense that you are using your political position to impose your favored sexual practices on someone else."
Penny Hanson, who owns the Beth Lane home, is evicting Spalding and Page, City Hall records show. A lease termination notice was delivered to the house, effective June 30. Otherwise, beginning July 1, the club operators must start paying double rent, or $123.33 per day.
Porsi has ruled that The Hunt Club is:
# A commercial venture operating inside a private home, violating zoning rules. A certified letter detailing this alleged violation was delivered Wednesday.
# An illegal "sexual encounter business" that allows alcohol and fails to comply with Melbourne's adult entertainment regulations. A second certified letter was delivered Saturday.
Porsi gave the club until today to cease swingers' activities. Otherwise, the Melbourne code enforcement board could consider the matter during its July 30 meeting -- and levy daily fines of up to $250. .
Previously, The Hunt Club asked party attendees for $40 donations, and the club sought $60,000 from investors to build an eight-bedroom complex. But in her e-mail to Porsi, Page stated that her organization violates no local laws.
"We have our friends over for parties. Yes, people at our parties consume alcohol. It is not against the law to have friends over to your house for fun," Page wrote. "That does not constitute the operation of a business."
The Hunt Club featured a stripper pole and stage, swinging sex chair and a bedroom that was converted into an "observation room," Police Chief Don Carey said in April.
In her eviction letter, Hanson warned that she will conduct a final walk-through inspection July 1.
"I took detailed photos of my home, property, appliances, fixtures and plants before you moved in, and I expect the home to be returned to me in the same condition," Hanson wrote.
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