It’s late at night—around 3am, a time when most people are in bed—that Love Story really wakes up.

The crowd at this raunchy club is quite mixed, but its patrons always include groups of glistening, nearly-naked girls (ladies get in for free) and the odd rent boy on his way home from work. The heaving masses all shake their tight Paulistano booties to (truly) deafening techno and house music.

At R50, entry’s not cheap, and Love Story’s combination of sleaze, noise and “anything goes” attitude is not for everybody, but the rich and the reckless will find it makes for a night/late morning like no other. No wonder Nick Cave made a habit of going when he lived in São Paulo…