Reader Response

October, 2000

Swingers' RightsBefore authorities in Florida or elsewhere contemplate another swing club raid like those described in "Teachers Pet" (The Playboy Forum, June), they should realize they are challenging a large, well-organized middle-class subculture that extends across the continent. While researching my book, The Lifestyle: A Look at the Erotic Rites of Swingers, I discovered that the swinger's lifestyle combines traditional North American values--matrimony, emotional monogamy and eth...