"Swinging: The Games Your Neighbours Play"
posted by sooyup
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Daily trivia,
Grumpy old man
Emma and I love to learn about other couple’s lifestyles and we enjoy reading their Blogs. I hope we do so with completely open minds. And while we may not wish to emulate them, we are in no way judgemental. Who are we to pass comments on other people’s choices? I was a tad miffed, therefore, on reading Sebastian Horsley’s review of the book whose title I have used above. [The book is by Mark Brendon, by the way.] Horsley asks, “What is the point of a person who doesn’t share themselves? It’s like a bank without money. Christianity without Christ. By being monogamous, you are making one person happy but all the other people in the world unhappy. What right have you to do that?” Apart from the unfortunate syntax [He should say, “people who don’t share themselves” if he wants to avoid the awkward “a person who doesn’t share himself or herself”] and apart from the reference to Christ, which I completely fail to understand, what makes him think I am “depriving all the other people in the world” by screwing only Emma? Hell, I’m not that good at it! He goes on to claim we are not swingers because we “haven’t got the guts”. Why can’t he accept our choice with the same grace as we accept his? Surely all those lovely swingers can’t share Horsley’s viewpoint.
Emma and I love to learn about other couple’s lifestyles and we enjoy reading their Blogs. I hope we do so with completely open minds. And while we may not wish to emulate them, we are in no way judgemental. Who are we to pass comments on other people’s choices? I was a tad miffed, therefore, on reading Sebastian Horsley’s review of the book whose title I have used above. [The book is by Mark Brendon, by the way.] Horsley asks, “What is the point of a person who doesn’t share themselves? It’s like a bank without money. Christianity without Christ. By being monogamous, you are making one person happy but all the other people in the world unhappy. What right have you to do that?” Apart from the unfortunate syntax [He should say, “people who don’t share themselves” if he wants to avoid the awkward “a person who doesn’t share himself or herself”] and apart from the reference to Christ, which I completely fail to understand, what makes him think I am “depriving all the other people in the world” by screwing only Emma? Hell, I’m not that good at it! He goes on to claim we are not swingers because we “haven’t got the guts”. Why can’t he accept our choice with the same grace as we accept his? Surely all those lovely swingers can’t share Horsley’s viewpoint.
