ISBN-10: 0-523-00181
Writer: Iris Brent
Title: Swinger's Diary
Language: English
Place of Publication: New York City
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
Year of Publication: 1973
Format: 105x178mm (trimmed)
Pages: 216 printed on newsprint
Binding: paperback in duotone printed wrappers
Weight: 119gr.
Original Price: USD1.25
Entry No.: 2014003
Entry Date:10th February 2014
BOOK DESCRIPTION
A true and intimate look at a couple who dared to expand their sexual activities beyond the normal bounds of a marriage bed...
"What we have learned about ourselves and about others from swinging. Why we believe that freedom for full sexual expression is vital to human growth."
Iris Brent in the epilogue of her little book.
ISBN-10: 0-06-066852-0
Writer: Herbert W. Richardson
Title: Nun, Witch, Playmate
Subtitle: The Americanization of Sex
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Place of Publication: New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London
Publisher: Harper & Row, Publishers
Year of Publication: 1971
Format: 143x212mm
Pages: xii+147pp.
Illustrations: 1 black and white of the author on the back flap
Binding: boards in single colour dust jacket
Weight: 358gr.
Original Price: USD 4.95
Entry Date: 2014018
Entry Date: 3rd September 2014
BOOK DESCRIPTION
In this masterful study, Herbert Richardson uncovers the psychological and historical forces behind today's sexual upheaval. He explores the varieties of human sexuality and interprets sexual behavior as bodily expression of inner spiritual states. Sexual evolution is seen to be a visible emblem of transformations in the human spirit.
This valuable discussion of how we are in and experience our sexual selves touches on:
This valuable discussion of how we are in and experience our sexual selves touches on:
* why sex and love are traditionally thought to be unreconcilable
* how war created patriarchy and aggressive sex
* whether witches cause impotence
* why only Americans engaged in petting
* what's wrong with seeking orgasm as the goal in sex
* how romantic marriage creates social revolution
* why heterosexuality is always bisexuality
* what is the function of virginity
* how war created patriarchy and aggressive sex
* whether witches cause impotence
* why only Americans engaged in petting
* what's wrong with seeking orgasm as the goal in sex
* how romantic marriage creates social revolution
* why heterosexuality is always bisexuality
* what is the function of virginity
Writer: Ashley Lister
Title: Swingers
Subtitle: True confessions from today's swinging scene
Language: English
Place of Publication: London
Publisher: Virgin Books
Year of Publication: 2006
Format: 130x195mm (trimmed)
Pages: 249
Binding: paperback in colour printed wrapers; images by Getty/Virgin Books
Weight: 248gr.
Original Price: GBP7.99 / USD12.95 / CAD17.95 RPR
Entry No: 2015011
Entry Date: 10th March 2015
BOOK DESCRIPTION
Swinging, swapping, dogging, threesomes, soft-swaps, group sex and full-blown orgies. Everybody has heard about them. Everyone knows someone who knows someone who was rumoured to... But who is really doing it? How? Where? Why? What's like? And what really happens?
Frank and Eve regularly frequent the dogging circuits where she accepts up to a dozen different men in a single night. Roger and Sonia spend Saturday evenings having sex in their lounge while their friends sit by and watch. Grace and Harry own a large estate and host bacchanal swinging parties for up to a hundred couples at a time/ Ken makes himself available as the other man for those partners who want to experience a MFM threesome. Artur sits in the room below his wife Betty and listens as she takes lover after lover after lover.
Ashley Lister, a freelance writer, author and reporter, has met countless singles, couples and triples involved in the UK's recreational sex scene. Meeting people who have turned their fantasy into reality, he uncovers today's swinging Britain and reveals the sexy, shocking and true secrets of what happens behind closed doors.
Judges Watch Films Depicting Them and Order a Private Performance Young Girls Defendants
Celly de Reydt, the Premiere, Her Husband and Photographers Also Accused
BERLIN, Jan. 10.-
Naked dancing went on trial in the Criminal Court today. The principal in the case is Celly de Rheydt¹, the pioneer in dancing of this type, and the codefendants are Celly's husband, Sewelch, a former First Lieutenant, who was originally her impresario and still acts as manager for his wife in her undraped dancing; Celly's ballet of five young girls, the youngest 14; the motion picture photographers who filmed the nude ballet and the “still” photographers who made picture postals of it, none of which would be permitted to pass through the American mails.
The case, which is a cause celebre for Berlin, opened in a fitting setting today. Five learned Judges were on the bench, with a battery of eight lawyers for, the defense entrenched in front of Celly and her dancing girls. The State's Attorney is supported by one lone, shocked witness so far –a certain Pastor Hoppe –and a flock of professors as experts in the morality of the art, including Professor Max von Schillins², one of the most distinguished living German composers, best known for his opera “Mona Lisa” and Director General of the Opera House. The general public was excluded, but reporters and representatives of children's welfare organizations were admitted.
The Presiding Judge first ordered a motion picture of the nude dances thrown on the screen which had been stretched in the courtroom, frequently stopping the reel for a closer examination, as well as to identify the defendants shown on the screen and to quiz them regarding exactly what articles of clothing, including beads, gauze streamers, &c., they had worn at each stage.
The questioning of the Court elicited the information that at first the dancers were relatively clad above the waist, but as the ballet went on their bodies were completely exposed. In the case of the last dance shown the Court's queries as to costume were superfluous, for Celly was flashed on the screen in the altogether.
On account of the heated atmosphere in the overcrowded courtroom the Court called it a day's work and decided to order a view, “in camera”, of the original live ballet production, with music, at a local theatre on Thursday.
What is alleged to be the most offensive dance is a pantomime in which Celly appears, first fully clad as a mediaeval nun, who suddenly goes mad before a crucifix, sheds her nun's clothing completely and proceeds to execute a dance symbolic of delirium. This dance was actually performed in public repeatedly in 1919, until the flood of protests, principally from Catholics, on the ground of profanation and sacrilege, caused Celly to withdraw it from her repertoire. |
American visitors who have since seen her modified “beauty dances” say they never saw anything like them before. Among these American art experts were pillars of the community, mostly with wives and families across the Atlantic.
(Source: Cyril Brown in The New York Times, January 11, 1922)
NOTES
¹ Celly de Rheydt (aka Anna Cäcilie Marie Funk, 1889-1969), German nude ballet dancer. She stood trial in 1922 for her nude appearances on stage (1919-21).
² Max von Schillings (1868-1933), German composer and conductor, best known for his opera Mona Lisa (1915), also for his anti-Semitism.
A teenager on his way to school stopped at a candy store to load up for the day. He had a soft drink, got a pack of cigarettes, four candy bars and three magazines, 35 cents each.
The cover of one magazine showed a snarling brute at a Nazi torture room hipping a nearly-naked red-haired girl. The second had the photo of a nude girl, most of her body obscured by a block of type. The third featured a story labeled “Phony Surgeons Who Stalk Our Operating Rooms.”
These are magazines which are called smut publications. The $1.05 spent by the boy may seem a pittance. But along with hundreds of thousands of other teenagers and adults, the dimes and nickels spent on such magazines, books, and other materials ranging from offensive to hard-core pornography make it a major industry.
It is estimated at $2 billion a year. This is more than was spent in 1962 at all the movie box offices ($82 million), at all professional, semi-professional and amateur baseball, football, hockey, basketball, tennis and other sports entertainment ($1.9 billion); or was collected by the makers of cigarettes, cigars, pipe and chewing tobacco ($1.1 billion). It is more than was taken in by the radio-television industry ($1 billion).
What sort of magazines are these? How are they produced? Who buys them?
One side says such material is smut. It argues that such magazines introduce teenager to a world of Lesbians, homosexuals, sadists, masochists and other deviates. The other side argues that such material acts like a safety valve. It is in this way that all sorts of sexual feelings are harmlessly dissipated.
By legal definition, these magazines are not pornographic. If they were, they could quickly be put out of business or driven underground.
Since they are not:
1. They can be purchased by anyone regardless of age, sex or mental condition.
2. All that is needed is the price, generally from 25 cents to 75 cents.
3. They can be found displayed on open racks in drugstores, supermarkets, terminals, newsstands.
4. They are sold in practically every town and city in America.
There are many general-interest, high-fashion, digest-size, adventure, nudist, art, physical culture and entertainment publications which contain photographs or drawings of nudes. Scarcely an eyebrow is raised.
“If a news magazine or a fashion magazine publishes a nude figure within context of a specific event or theme, we certainly are not contending this is a move toward smut,” says a district attorney who has prosecuted dozens of pornography and obscenity cases.
Charles H. Keating Jr., Cincinatti attorney who is co-chairman of Citizens for Decent Literature (CDL), says: “It may seem silly to say you can tell which are objectionable just by looking at them, but it is true. I don't want to sound like a witch hunter or professional bluenose, but these magazines and paperbacks have a quality about them that sets them aside. There are perhaps 80 or 90 general distribution magazines which introduce the high schooler to a world of Lesbians, homosexuals, sadists, masochists and other deviates.”
The CDL is a national organization whose sponsors include prominent clergymen, political leaders and government officials.
There are four major categories of magazines in question.
Slicks - There are about 40 titles, most of them trying to cash in on the success of Playboy, considered a man's magazine and not on the CDL smut list. The slicks are printed on glossy paper, use color, tend editorially and pictorially to appear high-toned. The major feature is the photo essay showing an attractive, young, shapely girl. She is nude.
Men's Adventure - These usually have lurid action-type covers with sensational, eye-catching titles. There are at least 25 different magazines. The art and text tend toward depicting or describing physical brutality, perversion of all sorts, generally concealed in a right-versus-evil struggle.
Body-Builders - These purport to be devoted to developing bulging biceps. Many are thinly-veiled publications aimed at homosexuals.
Nudist - This s used to be the province of the nudist groups. Sun worshippers depicted generally had the sexual appeal of a herd of rhinos wallowing at the mud hole. Now the air brush has been put away, and young, attractive nudists, mostly models, are shown with clear and uncluttered detail.
(Source: The Nudist Newsletter #148/1964;
article reprinted from The Paducah Sun-Democrat)
Ο ιδιοκτήτης ενός swing bar στο Λος 'Αντζελες εξηγεί τον τρόπο λειτουργίας στο ζευγάρι δημοσιογράφων του έγκριτου μηνιαίου περιοδικού ανθρώπινων σχέσεων «Forum». Έχουν σχεδόν περάσει 46 χρόνια από τη δημοσίευση του άρθρου στο τεύχος Δεκεμβρίου 1972, αλλά τα μηνύματα παραμένουν επίκαιρα.
«Βλέπεις οι άνθρωποι εδώ είναι πολύ προσεκτικοί. Μόνο μικρά ονόματα. Δε θέλουν να γίνουν γνωστοί είτε ατομικά είτε συλλογικά. Δε θα το αντέξουν. Είναι επαγγελματίες, επιχειρηματίες, δάσκαλοι. Ακόμη και μεταξύ εκείνων που έχουν έρθει κοντά για μήνες είναι μόνο μικρά ονόματα.
Πάνω απ' αυτά υπάρχει ένας τρομερός φόβος ότι η έκθεση θα καταστρέψει αυτό που έχει συμβεί εδώ, το οποίο έχει γίνει σε clubs σε όλη τη χώρα. Υπάρχει ένα άρθρο σε μια εφημερίδα και την επόμενη εβδομάδα ολόκληρη η λειτουργία [του club] σταματά. Όλοι θέλουν η σκηνή να επιβιώσει...
Ό,τι έχουμε κάνει είναι να βγάλουμε το swinging από την παρανομία και να το φέρουμε μέσα σε δημόσιο μέρος. Έχουμε εκμηδενίσει τις ανησυχίες για έκθεση, εκβιασμό, εκμετάλλευση – όλη την ενόχληση που είναι πάντοτε μέρος του swinging. Κανείς δε θέλει να διακινδυνεύσει να δει όλο αυτό να καταλήγει στον υπόνομο.
Ο Phil τότε άρχισε να μάς ξεναγεί. Πρώτα μάς σύστησε στο ζευγάρι απέναντι και ύστερα σε άλλες νέες αφίξεις καθώς περνούσαν την πόρτα. Αυτοί, με τη σειρά, μας σύστησαν σε άλλους. Καθετί ήταν στη βάση του μικρού ονόματος, αλλά σχεδόν δεν είχε σημασία. Το μέρος γέμιζε και το επίπεδο του θορύβου καθιστούσε αδύνατο να συγκρατήσουμε τα μικρά ονόματα, ή περισσότερο από κάθε τέταρτη λέξη της συνομιλίας.
Μια σύζυγος, τσαχπίνα ξανθιά, απόλυτο θηλυκό, σκαρφάλωσε στα γόνατα ενός τύπου στον οποίο μιλούσαμε. Αυτός έσφιξε με το χέρι μέρος του στήθους της και μάς είπε τι σημαντικό μικρό κορίτσι ήταν. Σημαντικό, ίσως. Μικρό, όχι.
Μια γυναίκα στην άλλη πλευρά μας έπαιξε ένα σύντομο αλλά ενδιαφέρον παιχνίδι αρπαγής με μένα [προφανώς δεν ήξερε την ιδιότητα του δημοσιογράφου], ενώ συνομιλούσε έντονα με κάποιον άλλο για, νομίζω, φύλαξη νηπίων. Άλλο κορίτσι εξήγησε στη συνοδό μου ότι μπορούσαν να έρχονται στο club μόνο κατά τη διάρκεια της εβδομάδας, επειδή περνούσαν τα καλοκαιριάτικα σαββατοκύριακα σε συγκρότημα προκατασκευασμένων οικίσκων για swingers. [Οι swingers της εποχής εκείνης απολάμβαναν το ερωτικό παιχνίδι].
Κάποιος αναζήτησε έναν σημαντικό φωτογράφο ο οποίος υποτίθεται ότι θα κάλυπτε ένα σαββατοκύριακο στο κέντρο παραθερισμού (ντυμένες και αθώες φωτογραφίες μόνο), αλλά δεν είχε βγει από το δωμάτιο για τρεις ολόκληρες ημέρες.
[Αυτή είναι η μαγεία του swinging. Πηγαίνεις για συγκεκριμένο σκοπό και καταλήγεις αλλού…!]
Έχουμε επανειλημμένα τονίσει ότι το swinging είναι δημιούργημα των ανθρώπων της διπλανής πόρτας, παρά τις προσπάθειες κάποιων να το συνδέσουν με την οικονομική άνεση. Τρανταχτό παράδειγμα η λειτουργία του κάμπινγκ για swingers στη νοτιοδυτική Γαλλία, με το όνομα «Μαύρο Διαμάντι» που σημειώνει μεγάλη επιτυχία, το τρίτο στη σειρά που λειτουργεί στη χώρα από το 2014.
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