Hello friends, I went to the bash in Las Vegas (my first one) in August. Just putting my thoughts down now and would love to hear from everyone (if you've been to bashes before or want to go, or just want to chime in). I went to the Bash alone and it was awkward for about 15 minutes but just being a normal friendly person (and also buying people drinks (both men and women)) and just being a good listener, I was able to meet some people and even make a few friends. As far as models go, I saw Jae, Caitidee, Sadie, Gigi, Spanxbeluga, Fupatrooper, SweetPeaOkla, Autumn Hart (XOAutumnHartXO), Kassandra (KassTheBlast), probably a few others I'm forgetting. I talked to most of them. My advice is to treat them like normal human beings; if you know they are a plus-size webmodel already, pretend that you don't know and everything goes much more smoothly. As amazing as these women are, a lot of random women are just as huge and beautiful and it was a pleasure meeting them as well. There were about 6 or 7 women who were 550-600+ and half of them were not even models; all of them were incredible. Some of the older women there were incredible nice and they would be your friend for the whole Bash and thereafter if you were just friendly and talkative.
My fellow (white) dudes there ranged from normal to completely retarded. I am sure if any of you have been to a bash before, you know who I am talking about - guys who are literally autistic, midgets, etc. or random old dude. I think a great thing to do is to bond with your fellow non-autistic FAs (I'm assuming most readers here are men) and I met plenty of dudes who were more or less normal. Once you meet some reasonable guys, it all becomes much easier to meet women as well. Met a bunch of black guys too, they are in general (but not entirely) less autistic. Also met the most incredible ultra-feedist ever and it was interesting to meet someone who I felt more or less understood me.
One thing I noticed is that the Bash is probably 50% white, 40% black, and 10% other. As a white guy it was easier for me to talk to black women, and for black guys it was probably easier to talk to white women. This is because, outside of the Bash context, these white and black women probably rarely meet or talk to men of other races who are interested in them (unless they live in NY or LA).
In any event I hooked up with three different women (I define hooking up as kissing/heavy consensual body contact) and went on a date with one, but I did not literally fuck anyone. I kind of doubt that there was a ton of straight up fucking since I went to every afterparty and for most of them, I left the afterparty at its conclusion and people were not paired up with partners going back to their hotel rooms (approx. 3:00 AM to 5:00 AM). Obviously it's a different story for people who came with their boyfriend/girlfriend/spouse. So at the end of the day, it was fun meeting people, and maybe even setting up a meeting after the Bash, but it was not a crazy orgy fuckfest like some people have claimed. And for that reason, I am not super excited about going back.
For context, I am a reasonably good-looking not short younger middle-aged athletic white guy with a reasonably well-paid job.
The craziest thing for me was that at the pool party, I saw this incredibly handsome black guy (6'4”, dreadlocks, totally ripped) sit down in a pool chair, and I thought, how can I compete with this guy? About 60 seconds later, his skinny girlfriend sat down next to him and they were talking about what was the deal with this pool party with all the fat chicks. So you don't have to compete with this guy. The other crazy thing was explaining the Bash to other people in the same hotel at 3:00 AM at the all night Subway restaurant to people who were not there for the Bash (they were there for a basketball tournament). I even met some chick who had WLS and went from 400+ to 120 but she still goes to the Bash to see friends. I also met the women who were opposed to the autistic German guy who was banned from the Bash for forcing himself on the women (he is a apparently a millionaire from inventing some computer chip in the 80s) and who has some giant house for afterparties in Vegas, and also the guy who organizes the Bash is apparently also some kind of sexual predator, so it remains to be seen how this will all play out. In any event, I recommend that everyone go at least once, talk to everyone, don't drink too much, thanks for reading and hope to hear your opinion, and feel free to ask me anything about the Bash.
