Group Sex in China … Hotly Debated

| April 28, 2010

The biggest online group-sex and swingers site in China, called “Happy Village,” has 360,000 users, according to Li Yinhe, who The New York Times says is “arguably China’s most famous sexual rights campaigner.”

Sex in China

| March 29, 2010

But if you know anything at all about Chinese sexual culture, this is just weird … because China may be repressed politically but not sexually, at least not for the last few decades. I mean, in 1990, a major survey indicated 69 percent of Chinese had no real problem with extramarital sex.

Annual LifeStyle Convention Canceled

| May 23, 2009

There are a lot of big Lifestyle gatherings in the United States and around the world — “Lifestyle” being code for swingers — but historically the most important one has been the one run by the Lifestyle Organization for 34 years, in association with the North American Swing Club Association. The 35th bash had been scheduled for Aug. 5-9 in Las Vegas, but it’s canceled due to the economy, according to organizers.

Alaska, Wyoming, Washington D.C. Top ‘Swinging States’ List

| March 9, 2009

Alaskans may vote conservatively but the state that brought us Gov. Sarah Palin leads the nation in memberships per capita to the world’s largest site for swingers, adult chat and adult personal ads. The nation’s capital, Washington, D.C., ranks third.

The statistics gnomes at intotemptation.net, meaning me, spent a day and change crunching and analyzing the publicly available records at AdultFriendfinder.com, which claims more than 16 million members …

Sex Club in the New York Times … Outed by Gothamist

| February 26, 2009

My source of frustration … stems from the taboo that extends, obviously, even to hedonistic New York City. That even Miss Wanda asks that her enterprise not be recognized … that she does not want her real name in the newspaper, associated with her sex club … will say, to many readers, that she is ashamed of what she does.

Which she undoubtedly is not.

Poly Men live Longer …

| January 19, 2009

Polygamists live longer … Repent, Amarillo! … Islamic rant against the sexual revolution … fake profiles on dating sites … etc.

You've Been Tempted.

Shadowy "Into Temptation" has been a forum about evolving social-sexual networks and how they have changed and are changing lives. In other words, we talk about dating and sex.

The original intention was that this blog would also chronicle a book project on the same subject; but that is in flux, on hiatus, perhaps meant for another time.