Swingland.. is it accurate?

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  Cheekyarses

  11 years ago

  I haven't read it, but intrigued - who is the author?

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  RHP User

  11 years ago

  is the author, I got a copy from ebay after it was highlighted on this site.

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  RHP User

  11 years ago

  'Swingland' by Daniel Stern. I haven't read it yet but maybe Santa will put it in my Christmas stocking?As far as, 'is it representative of the swinging lifestyle', there are a few things to remember.1) It's autbiographical, so it's only representative of the author's own experiences, observations, conversations and research. The author may make extrapolations about everybody else in the book, I dunno, and the reader is welcome to do the same. The fact that they don't always prove accurate is, I think, more about the diversity of people's experiences in 'the lifestyle' than any fault of the author. So long as he didn't deliberately fabricate information to make his book more sensational -- a crime against writing non-fiction I wouldn't level at any journalist without good evidence -- the fact is, yes, it's representative - but only about a narrow slice of people. Results may vary. ;)I pity any single man who reads a book about experiences of swinging and thinks, 'Great! I'm going to bang the entire cast of Desperate Housewives within the first month!', then shows up at his local swinger's club, ready for the action to start!2) If the author told people he was writing a book, or even more formally, if his publishing company made introductions on his behalf, doors would have opened to him that ordinarily wouldn't have existed. For illustration, you could say that the Sascha Baron Cohen movies 'Borat' and 'Bruno' showed examples of American xenophobia and homophobia. Sure, they did, but in situations with an intentionally outrageous character that were set-up to do so. Borat was only let on live television and allowed to sing the national anthem at the rodeo because he said he was a foreign journalist. Otherwise a foreign visitor to the US would be unlikely to be given those arenas in which to act-out. Daniel Stern may have been invited places, allowed to participate in sex acts, been told information simply because it was known he was writing about it. (Unless he did it all, ahem, 'undercover' - I don't know which). If he did indeed tell people he was writing the book, and that got him extra-laid, DAMMIT, I wish I'd thought of it first.

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