However, a woman with a feather duster asks me to hold on to her panties. She is about to join a threesome on the king-sized bed near the bureau that I' m leaning against. | marvel at the choreography of this foursome. But they’ re playing, and |’ m working. Their moans become my background music. | wasn’ t a/ways a wallflower at the orgy. | flash back 30 years to 1967 ...1 was at a Sexual Freedom League couples-only party on New Year’ s Eve at a large theatrical studio in San Francisco. There were about 150 people dancing in the nude. Behind the closed curtains on the stage there were fifteen small mattresses in constant use by different couples. | remember making love on one of those mattresses with a sweet flower child only fifteen minutes after we’ d met. It was an exhilarating experience. We were on the front lines of the Sexual Revolution. We had to hold back from screaming out political slogans at our moment of climax. The seeds of contemporary swinging were planted at that party, but who could have known it would blossom into an industry? kok # If it’ s true that, as Bill Maher once stated so poetically, “The real problem with marriage is that it’ s just very difficult to bump your uglies with the same person every night your whole life,” then for some people, HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015217