Swinging? Really?

Well, that was a surprise!

As I said, our friends came back last night after our fun afternoon of bowling. We had a delicious dinner, lots of wine and then started talking...

Although my blog in anonymous, I started chatting along the lines of my "On the Blog" this week. I talked about how bored I can get with all the conversations about babies and work.   It can sometime feel a little like ground hog day.  I said that we don't talk enough about the interesting stuff.

Bear in mind the fact that we had probably had about 8 bottles of wine by this point . I probably initiated the whole conversation by saying how I was a little gutted that I'd never kissed a girl. It seems, I said, that most people, at some point, had.

Well... that was a red rag to a bull. I couldn't believe the next revelation! Mrs X went on to tell us how she had, on quite a few occasions, kissed girls. "Is this normal behaviour?" I'm thinking. "Do I live a dull life having not partaken in such activities". It seems that this is only the tip of the iceberg for this couple. Possibly another bottle of wine later came the main revelation:

Apparently, not so long ago, this couple ended up in bed with another married couple! After a booze filled dinner party (scarily similar to ours), it started with strip poker and then moved to the bedroom. My jaw was on the floor. The detail was quite incredible and partners were well and truly "swapped".  They both seemed quite comfortable and excited about it and there was a point, even in my drunken state, when I actually started to wonder if this was some form of proposition.

Despite the shock, it made me feel so naive. Is this kind of thing more "normal" than I thought? I imagined it was a cult activity, which only took place in cold dark areas of Surrey when couples reached their 50's and just couldn't be bothered to have affairs!

Not so it seems.

Answers on a postcard...