Terry Gould:”If people have control of their own sexuality, then that means they're not under the control of society.” (С)

“At some level most men believe that their wives could behave very licentiously if given the opportunity to do so, and that's why there's jealousy and fear.”

Тerry Gould is the best selling author of The Lifestyle: A Look at the Erotic Rites of Swingers, a book that has been profiled on ABC's 20/20 and CBS's 48 Hours, and is widely considered to be the only serious investigation of the modern swinging subculture by a mainstream journalist.

Kasidie: Your book is unique in contrast to other books about the swinging lifestyle in that you are not actually a swinger yourself. You wrote it purely as an outside observer of lifestyle. Most people who go that deep into the lifestyle or spend that much time around swingers are usually people who are interested in getting into the lifestyle themselves.

Terry Gould: Yeah, let me start by saying it was just a professional engagement of journalism. That's what I do when I tell a story, I stay with it. I've written several books and studied the subject matter for years. That's not unusual for any journalist. In my case, sometimes organized crime sometimes social phenomena. It takes a long time to treat a subject seriously and understand it and explain it. Not just on the most obvious and spectacular manifestations you see on the outside that can be covered by a daily newspaper but culturally historically morally ethically biologically.

Kasidie: I understand that this book and its research resulted from an earlier article you wrote for a magazine?

Terry Gould: In this case the book was published in 1999 and if we go back ten years before then, I was senior editor of a magazine and I was covering a story on swingers. So I did what a lot of journalists did in those days. I found an ad in a local newspaper, went to a club party and from that wrote an article. The people I encountered that particular night in that particular club were not very flattering to that subculture......

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