Posted on 08/26/2010 7:35:04 PM PDT by tlb
Interesting trivia point, "Swinging" was invented by the US Air Force.
From Wiki:
According to Terry Gould's Book The Lifestyle: A Look at the Erotic Rites of Swingers, swinging began among Air Force pilots and their wives during World War II. The mortality rate of pilots was high. Gould reports that a close bond arose between pilots, with the implication that husbands would care for all the wives as their own, emotionally and sexually, if the husbands were away or lost (thus bearing some similarity to levirate marriage).
This is debatable, however, since it would have been unusual for wives to accompany their husbands on foreign tours. Other sources point to U.S. Air Force test pilots in the California desert as the original participants.
Though the beginnings are not agreed upon, it is assumed American swinging began among American military communities in the 1950s. By the time the Korean War ended, swinging had spread from the military to the suburbs. The media dubbed the phenomenon wife-swapping.
Keep it in your pants or do the burning pee dance.
‘swinging’ has been happening far far longer than the Air Force.
Soddam and Gomorrah ring a bell?
Yeah, I can still remember the 1st Sergeant’s parting words at the last company formation every friday: “... And wear a rubber!”
>>> Soddam and Gomorrah ring a bell?
No but Quasimodo does.
Emperor Zero’s grandfathers ?
Heh, that’s something they didn’t show in “The Right Stuff.”
Hmm, a common cold virus spreads itself by making you sneeze. Do you suppose HIV has a different behavior modification to spread itself?
btw...that guy is just God's gift to women....NOT!...if you're going to "swing" ladies at least do it with a hunk.....geesh...
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I call BS!
Why, everybody knows it was the colonial Brits in East Africa who invented it for the twentieth-century. “White Mischief”.
They also invented the “key party”. Where everybody drops their keys in a fishbowl and the ladies pull out the keys and go home with the gentleman whose keys they are.
Hell to the no !
Not even with a Jason Patrick mask on.
Hard to feel sorry for these ‘victims’. If they wanted to live that lifestyle, they got a taste of the results.
I’m just glad he doesn’t (appear to) have a “kiddie problem”.
I’m boringly normal too. Although, having had access to a former coworker’s ‘swinging site’ (just out of a burning curiosity) and knowing some others, I will say that the majority of people who participate in swinging are just average in appearance. Graying, balding, sagging, with bumps and scars and cellulite. None of them were what I would term ‘very attractive’.
That’s what I was thinking. No sympathy here. You have sex, all kinds, with lots of different strangers who are having all kinds of sex with other strangers, unprotected and you’re surprised that some of them have diseases? Yeesh. Stupid is as stupid does.
Anyone want to bet he caught HIV from another homosexual?
Or a dirty needle. The two base behaviors are typically intertwined.
I would guarantee that. Remember the outbreak of AIDS exploded in the gay community, namely the bath houses of San Fransisco, but from my limited understanding of the disease it is far easier to catch HIV from having anal sex, as opposed to normal intercourse.
I am not going into the gory details but basically it involves semen entering the blood stream right away.
Having sex with strangers is suicidal!!!
This should wake up a lot of the RINOs who were supporting repeal of DADT. Not only would allowing open homosexuality undermine unit cohesion, but the additional healthcare costs (AIDS, hepatitis, syphilis, etc) are going to be astronomical.
“...swinging began among Air Force pilots and their wives during World War II. The mortality rate of pilots was high. ... a close bond arose between pilots, with the implication that husbands would care for all the wives as their own, emotionally and sexually, if the husbands were away or lost (thus bearing some similarity to levirate marriage).”
Interesting. There are some hints of this among some ancient warrior cultures of the steppes. Danger, mutual loyalty and the need to keep up the population numbers applied there as well.
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