Chinese Swingers
2 May 06
Partner swapping is taking off in China:
Though it survives and apparently prospers, partner-swapping may be somewhat passe in the West, having peaked as a shocking and titillating sexual/social phenomenon in the late ‘60s and through much of the ‘70s before harsh realities such as AIDS, combined with a sociopolitical swing to the right, morphed key swapping parties, publications such as Screw, and now-near-forgotten mainstream flicks such as Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice more or less into the largely grimy realm of the Internet and amateur porn.
But in a new China, while the sexual revolution hasn’t exactly replaced or gained the notoriety of the Cultural Revolution, it’s humming on underground via coded missives on the closely monitored Internet.
Ahem. I have but a few hit-and-run observations. One, partner-swapping is very much alive in the West. Two, contrary to popular belief, non-monogamous sex was most certainly not invented in 1970s America. Three, Cultural Revolution notwithstanding, the Chinese were experimenting with sex long before Westerners learned to bathe properly.
[Via Asian Sex Gazette]
