"Chicago area couple, early 30s, wish couples and single women interested in uninhibited experimentation. Also interested in good food, art films, music, complete evenings of enjoyment. Send address and photo."
That advertisement is typical of several placed in the magazine Kindred Spirits by Northern Illinois University Anthropology Professor Gilbert D. Bartell and his wife Ann. The Bartells were looking for people to take part in a study of group sex. The results of that three-year study were published in a refreshingly unclinical book called Group Sex: A Scientist's Eyewitness Report on the American Way of Swinging (Peter H. Wyden; $6.95).
During their investigation, the Bartells met hundreds of people interested in "swinging," an activity defined as "having sexual relations as a couple with at least one other individual." Although they spent quiet evenings with other couples, attended large sex parties and studied 280 swingers in depth, the Bartells diplomatically avoided going to bed with their subjects. (Read more....)
Источник: "Time" 1971
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