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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 05:41 PM
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What is your opinion of "swingers?"
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edbermac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 05:44 PM
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1. The golfing kind?
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 05:59 PM
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8. FOUR!......I mean fore!
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Sky Masterson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 05:45 PM
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2. I think that if mature loving couples are secure in their relationships
and choose to participate in swinging,who am I to judge them?
:) :hi:
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 05:57 PM
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5. Hmmmm....mature. That's the ticket.
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muffin1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 05:51 PM
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3. I loved the movie!
:)
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MrCoffee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 05:56 PM
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4. The scene where Favreau keeps calling the girl's machine is painful
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muffin1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 05:59 PM
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7. Ooh, you're right.
I still have that weird feeling in my stomach just thinking about it.
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MrCoffee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 06:00 PM
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9. Exactly...
That scene might have hit a little too close to home for me.
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 06:06 PM
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11. I just watched that on youtube
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 05:58 PM
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6. I've never seen it.
I must rent that.
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muffin1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 06:03 PM
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10. It's quite funny.
http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjEwNDk3MjQ1M15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNDk3MTYyMQ@@._V1._SX100_SY137_.jpg

One of the few Vince Vaughn movies I like. It came out in 1996.
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 06:10 PM
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12. I just watched the answer machine scene on youtube
That was funny
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 06:12 PM
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13. That was the movie that established Vince Vaughn as
a guy who plays Vince Vaughn in every movie.

I did love that movie, however.
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 07:39 PM
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16. Ha! He does play Vince Vaughn in every movie!
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RiffRandell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 10:49 PM
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25. You're so money!
Great flick.
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muffin1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 07:36 AM
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40. No, YOU'RE so money!
And...how long do you wait to call your beautiful baby?

:rofl:
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BarenakedLady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 05:46 PM
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60. Me too!
:)
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 06:53 PM
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14. It's not really for me, but
if other couples can pull it off without hurting each other, then more power to them.
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whistler162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 07:03 PM
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15. Decent staplers!
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 07:40 PM
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17. Say, what?
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muffin1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 07:43 PM
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18. Are you thinking of Swingline?
:-)
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whistler162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 07:48 PM
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20. Never mind!!!!
Edited on Fri May-07-10 07:55 PM by whistler162
in a pseudo Roseanne Roseannadana voice!;)
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 07:43 PM
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19. Whoever wants to do what they want to, do is fine with me.
Redstone
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 08:10 PM
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21. Seems more trouble than it's worth. n/t
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hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 10:36 PM
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22. Cool Camera.


Fuji still makes film for the "Big Swinger."

My own favorite is my "Super Shooter."

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HipChick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 10:40 PM
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23. As long as they are consenting adults...

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Lil Missy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 10:44 PM
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24. It's not for me, but for others it's noboy elses business.
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donheld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 12:26 AM
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26. It's nobody's business
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 12:27 AM
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27. choice.... nt
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LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 12:28 AM
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28. They should all be sentenced to death.
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 07:06 AM
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36. How so?
Edited on Sat May-08-10 07:16 AM by graywarrior
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LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 09:01 AM
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47. They spend all day on swings kicking their legs out when...
I am trying to get my work done. I have to swerve around them. That calls for a harsh penalty.
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 09:22 AM
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49. Plus they keep asking for a push.
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LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 09:27 AM
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50. Exactly. They want something for nothing.
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 10:27 AM
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52. And if you push them too hard, they cry
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Sen. Walter Sobchak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 12:40 AM
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29. creepy middle-aged republicans
Where I work a woman was fired about a year and a half ago for using a company owned condo for hosting swinger parties with her husband, and she got away with it for several years until the police were called to one such party because female guests were flashing motorists from the balcony! The police busted most of the guests for possession and disorderly conduct. The main thing about this pair was they were RAGING republicans and their cars were plastered with every freeper bumper sticker you could imagine. I saw them in a parking lot a few months ago and the car is now plastered in birther, bagger and proposition 8 stickers. Before being fired she was trying to hand out bumper stickers that said "My Pastor Says God Bless America" to anyone she could stop in the hallway.

Other swingers were more of the same, creepy republicans who sin like crazy and pray for forgiveness of sunday at the megachurch.

I am convinced that attached godless liberals have the most conservative lifestyles of anyone,
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Angel Donating Member (423 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 12:47 AM
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30. Nothing wrong with it if both partners
understand the guidelines. What goes on in a couples life is their own business. If they don't care why should anyone else.
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LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 12:49 AM
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31. Their lips should be stapled shut so they don't spread germs.
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 12:52 AM
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32. I'm not smart enough for the game: my poor little mind is too easily occupied
by more mundane things, and there are only so many hours in the day

I remember "swinging" being rather popular in the early seventies: most of the people I met back then who claimed to be playing that game didn't impress me much, though it's possible that many of them were simply empty blowhards
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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 02:47 AM
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33. Consenting adults, and all that...
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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 03:25 AM
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34. People should do what they want so long as all concerned are OK with it- not my thing, though...
Edited on Sat May-08-10 03:26 AM by old mark
I like one at a time for long periods of time...in the current instance, over 17 years...

mark
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tango-tee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 04:50 AM
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35. I pretty much belong to the "consenting adults, etc." crowd.
It's not for me, but what other adults do is none of my business.

Only one comment: Years ago, an acquaintance who was full-tilt into the swinger scene showed me something that made my head spin. It was a high-gloss catalog for our area in which couples advertised themselves or their partner - with photos. One picture showed a woman in her mature years, and the headline (penned by her loving husband) read "Old Swine. Will do anything".

I still can't wrap my mind around that.

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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 07:08 AM
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37. !
:rofl:
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tango-tee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 07:14 AM
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38. I'm tellinya,
That threw me for a loop.

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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 07:41 AM
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41. Not out of character, though
LFP is one of a kind
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tango-tee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 08:14 AM
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44. I'm tellin'! I'm tellin'!!!!!
Waaaah!
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 09:13 AM
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48. I think he already knows
since he lives here 24/7
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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 07:18 AM
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39. One of the funniest 'All in the Family' episodes involved swingers.
Poor Edith, she just wanted to make new friends. :rofl:
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alphafemale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 07:52 AM
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43. loved that show. nt
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 10:25 AM
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51. I totally forgot about that one
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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 07:44 AM
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42. as a kid, I loved to swing


and, to this day:
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amyrose2712 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 08:15 AM
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45. Don't have one. nt
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TreasonousBastard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 08:56 AM
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46. Fond memories of Plato's Retreat, but that was occasional fun and...
then there are those who take it up as a lifestyle who I generally don't find appealing.

(I vagely remember an outtake from an old quiz show, maybe Groucho's, where the woman talks about "Well, then we'd all go off to this big ol' screwin' party..." The audience went hysterical.)

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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 10:42 AM
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53. It's not for me. For those interested
it's no one else's business.

I'm pretty much a one person person. It would just be way too much for me to keep up with to have more than one partner.
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jxnmsdemguy65 Donating Member (481 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 12:00 PM
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54. Excellent way to pick up / spread STDs...
might be fun, but not worth it in my opinion. Call me old fashioned.
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 12:01 PM
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55. There's these things called condoms that I hear the wacky kids are using these days.
:)
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 12:02 PM
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56. Not my business unless I'm involved.
And when I go to orgies it's just to eat the grapes anyways.
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La Lioness Priyanka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 05:06 PM
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58. sometimes the cheese n crackers are pretty good too
:hi:
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 06:00 PM
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61. Are you speaking from experience?
I've seen your pics, and if all you're doing at orgies is eating cheese and crackers than something somewhere has gone horribly wrong. :rofl:
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La Lioness Priyanka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 07:12 PM
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62. LOL
:)
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La Lioness Priyanka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 05:05 PM
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57. consensual non-monogamy is no better or worse than consensual monogamy.
that's my opinion.
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Demoiselle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 05:31 PM
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59. Is it ok for me to say it's nobody else's business
while curling my lip in disgust?
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Arkansas Granny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 07:17 PM
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63. It's not anything that ever appealed to me, but as long as it's between consenting
adult who are aware of the situation, then it's none of my business.
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