Best Sex News, Saturday Edition

| February 21, 2009

… how else would I know about the late and legendary swinging Manhattan Social Club of Saskatoon, whose owners were quoted in a 1998 Globe and Mail article as saying that “most of their members are farmers who need to schedule events around harvest times.”

Well, of course they do.

On Privacy, Sexual Culture and Writing

| February 9, 2009

In attempting to conjure a really good and potentially popular book that is, at its heart, the story of an evolving sexual culture, I have so far faced two main obstacles. Both have to do with privacy. The first came from within myself. How much of myself would I have to reveal? Quite a bit, [...]

Swingtown Epitaph

| January 17, 2009

My girlfriend and I were at a swingers’ “Meet and Greet” party at a bar in Rocky Hill, Connecticut, on Saturday night. The cover charge was $25 per couple, enough to keep the sports bar’s regular clientele at bay for the evening, and perhaps a hundred couples showed up – a typical crowd for this sort of thing in north central Connecticut. I asked around. If they hadn’t watched “Swingtown,” they’d sure enough heard of it and were going to tune in …

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.