Well swung: A guide to British swingers

While working on a novel about swingers the acclaimed author Ewan Morrison spent a year exploring Britain's secret sexual subculture. Twelve months and many, many partners later, this is what he learned


My year of swinging ended with many new friends who were no longer lovers. Each of us, generally, moved on. Joanne now has a partner and a child. Sally has an on-going relationship with a couple. Which leads me to believe that swinging is, for the committed core, a lifestyle that they live day-in day-out. But for the majority who pass through the websites, it is a stage gone through for a year or so, a volatile stage filled with questions about limits and boundaries. Who I am? How will I live? Can I be happy? Can I love? What is love? Swinging is not so much an answer as a question asked deeply - for as many philosophers say, the only questions worth asking should place your life, and your body, at the heart of the question."

Источник: Independent

About the author
Ewan Morrison graduated from Glasgow School of Art with a degree in Fine Art and went on to become a successful television director. He has directed more than 200 hours of drama, arts and entertainment programmes for Channel4, BBC, Sky and STV, been nominated for four Baftas and was winner of a Royal Television Society Award in 2001. Since 2003, he has held Writer in Residence posts in France, Australia and New York. His first collection of short stories, The Last Book You Read, was published in 2005. Swung, a novel based on his year as a swinger, is published by Jonathan Cape on 5 April, price £11.99. To order at a special price, including free P&P, call Independent Books Direct, 08700 798 897