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I guess when it comes down to it, I had a bad feeling about it before it even aired and I'm not quite sure why. I think it's because I don't believe they will portray swingers in a good light, but as its been said here, that would not make good TV, What fun is it to watch swinger who truly care about others relationships? People want to be shocked. I also do not look at swinging as having an "open marrage" Mr. 101 and I go out together only, I always thought of an open marrage as doing anything you want at anytime and that is not the shared experience we have. Mr. 101 thinks it was OK all in good fun. I think it will portray swingers in a bad light more and more as the episodes go on. So many of my vanilla friends have the wrong ideas about swinging. So I guess I am a little defensive about it. They don't understand what it's all about and that it can make a strong marrage even stronger and bring you even closer to your spouse that you thought possible.
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I think the thing about this show that's getting overlooked and being fretted upon (besides the obvious fact that it's a
TV drama), is the time frame. I generally look forward to
VegasLee's posts because he's one person (among a few others here) who can reflect on when the lifestyle was about sex! It wasn't about "friends first", or couples only, or "we travel as a pair", or who cares what about whose relationships... it was about consenting adults having casual sex with people other than their spouse.
The 70's were a hedonistic time, people... sex, drugs and rock & roll! If it feels good, do it. And with that, viewers--perhaps swinging viewers most of all--need to keep in mind that the general way of things now, certainly was not the general way of things then. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Depends on your perspective. Myself, I wish I was around to swing in the 70s (I was 12 in 1976), as it seems that things were 'purer' and simpler then... when it
was just about the sex.
That being said, of course certain aspects are going to be dramatized and written in such a way as to generate interest from the general public. That goes without saying because it's a
TV drama, and as others have mentioned this series, in the final analysis, will be no more about swinging than the Sopranos is about the mob or Nip/Tuck is about plastic surgery, et al. All dramas are about people and their relationships and yes, their drama.
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