wife-swapping

Back at the dinner party, guests were engaged in a discussion of eccentric conjugal arrangements, in the course of which the astonishing phrase "wife-swapping Freemasons" was spoken.

The New Yorker Philip Gourevitch 2011

The 1940s and '50s in America were the age of the Kinsey Reports and wife-swapping.

Thinking Inside the Box Henry Allen 2011

The book's portrait of her hardy clan, with roots in the rugged island of Skye off the coast of Scotland, reminds us that there was a lot more to British East Africa than the Happy Valley set—those wife-swapping high flyers so familiar to readers and movie-goers.

After Empire Martin Rubin 2011

One French diplomat ridiculed David Cameron by describing him as "like a man who wants to go to a wife-swapping party without taking his own wife".

Now it's three-speed Europe. And we're left on the hard shoulder | Andrew Rawnsley 2011

The 1940s and '50s in America were the age of the Kinsey Reports and wife-swapping.

Thinking Inside the Box Henry Allen 2011

He says he realized that with the obscure material and Byrne's nonlinear approach to storytelling, with its changing points of view, the actors needed always to be very clear, even over-emphatic, about such subtle elements as Kelley's and Dee's penchant for wife-swapping, for example.

Backstage: 'Burn Your Bookes' at Taffety Punk, Folger's 2010-2011 season 2010

Watts, who was given free access to his scrapbooks, documents the period of sexual experimentation that led to the Hefners 'separation in 1956: wife-swapping (Hefner slept with his sister-in-law), bisexuality, orgies, homemade porn films and serial affairs that go unmentioned here.

Hugh Hefner in six volumes Christopher Turner 2010

Later after a drunken dinner party, this is the episode when Jerry admits to fancying Barbara and Jerry mentions wife-swapping, meanwhile Tom admires Margo's beautiful aspirants, calls her a very beautiful woman with a very sexy neck.

Archive 2008-09-01 Not a sheep 2008

Readers demanded answers for how to behave at sporting events, at second marriages, even whether wife-swapping was acceptable.

Emily Post's Successor Adapted Etiquette to a Less-Formal Era 2010

Pâté was less socially awkward than wife-swapping and it represented international sophistication in a single slab of greying pork mince.

How to make pâté 2010