[good times]

Sad, but unfortunately, I think it is a sign of a coming trend. One of our local clubs has had to change how they do business, although they are still on premise. A lot of this has to do with the reality that swing club opponents are getting much more organized. In my role of helping our local club when they came under some official scrutiny lately, I came across a legal brief that was prepared with the sole intent of instructing legal teams in how to close swing clubs down. It is interesting reading, a lot of the ways that many clubs do business will have to be changed if they are to survive.

A good example is that I suspect that the clubs who require a donation are going to be a thing of the past. If this legal brief is accurate, case law supports the contention that if a donation is "required" to attend, it is not a donation, it is an entrance fee or cover charge. The importance of this is that it changes the rules under which these clubs operate. As soon as their so called donation is determined to be an entrance fee, they are no longer a private party, and instead are a night club, which in most locals has a whole new set of rules governing their operation, usually including a ban on sex and nudity.

One of the things I have been thinking about lately is the possibility that the TV show Swingtown, making more of the general population aware of swinging, will have a negative impact on swinging and more specifically local swingers clubs. I got to thinking about this the other day around some of my vanilla friends. It occurred to me that if they watched the show it would not be hard to put together, based on the things we do in our daily life that are similar to the shows characters, that we may be swingers. That thought has already changed some of the ways I interact with my vanilla friends in subtle ways.