Naughty N'awlins is the largest convention for swingers and the alternative lifestyle in the world, held every July in New Orleans and running annually since the late 1990s. Founded by Bob Hannaford, who has built a business around lifestyle events and cruises, it has grown from a hotel takeover into something closer to a festival: five days and four nights across multiple French Quarter hotels, with the Astor Crowne Plaza at the corner of Bourbon and Canal serving as the main hub and properties including NOPSI and The Saint hosting their own crowds and atmospheres.

What separates it from a resort takeover or a themed cruise is New Orleans itself. Rather than sealing attendees inside a single property, the convention spills into the city — Bourbon Street bar takeovers, restaurant meetups, and a Sexual Freedom Parade through the French Quarter that has become the event's most visible tradition and, in a city built on parades, an unmistakeably New Orleans way of marking the week. Couples and single attendees arrive from across the United States and internationally, many of them regulars who structure their year around it.

The programme runs from daytime seminars and workshops on communication, consent, jealousy, and relationship structures, through pool parties and themed daytime events, into a nightly calendar of costume parties, play spaces, and club nights that continue until dawn. That mix is deliberate: the convention presents itself as an education and community event as much as a party, and long-married couples with children make up a substantial share of the crowd — a point consistently made in the mainstream press coverage the event has drawn over the years.

Attendance is in the low thousands, with recent editions promoted at somewhere between 2,600 and 3,000 attendees, and passes are sold per person for the full run rather than per night. The event is strictly 18+, and the organisers operate a consent-first culture with clear rules on photography and approach. Naughty N'awlins is the anchor event of the American lifestyle calendar, and the natural starting point for anyone curious about it. Browse our EroticAdvisor guide for edition dates, host hotels, pass pricing, and New Orleans adult venue and nightlife listings.

EventNaughty N'awlinsTypeSwingers & Lifestyle ConventionFrequencyAnnual — July, five days / four nightsCityNew Orleans, Louisiana, USAMain hub hotelAstor Crowne Plaza, Bourbon & CanalAdditional hotelsNOPSI, The SaintFounderBob HannafordAttendanceapproximately 2,600 — 3,000 (recent editions, as promoted)Age18+ only