American Swing

The review in Alternet by Cynthia Fuchs with the revealing title, "Screwing Their Brains Out": Plato's Retreat and the Rise of Swinging showed how little she and most other people know today about the Swinging Seventies. First off, adult group sex took many forms and none of them were anything like Woodstock that was about music, youth and pot. A few young couples got naked and enjoyed having sex together but it was NOT consenting adult couples having sex in a group setting.

Too many uptight folks today want to make group sex out to be some kind of social sickness or that only pathetic people took part in it. But what's been going on under the Bush admin and the Religious Right is today's real sickness with the repression of sexual expression that damages our youth with misinformation.

It's okay by me that my last name was left out of the film and her article. During my extensive interview, I told the film makers I went to Plato's only once and didn't much like it. My favorite sex parties were by invitation only with a core group of my friends. That way the mix of people was by design more like a successful dinner party. But I have no gripe with the suburban out-of-shape married couples who got to have some sexual fun at Plato's. I have always been a democratic fuck and some of these people were hotter than the so-called "pretty people" who were brittle and way too self-conscious to let go and enjoy recreational sex.