Gone are the days of the furtive basement meetups now Texas couples choose from a variety of lifestyle clubs across the state.
Instead, Brown refers to swinging as “the lifestyle,” a more modern, expansive term that encompasses, in her words, “all alternative things.” More specifically, it applies to couples who want to expand their erotic horizons together-explorers charting paths across open, amorous seas. The word conjures up images of adventurous suburban couples in the seventies flirting with their neighbors in wood-paneled basements: flashes of footsie on a shag carpet a French-tipped fingernail trailing seductively from a man’s lush sideburn down to the broad collar of his paisley shirt fondue, maybe. Tanja Brown thinks the term “swingers” is outdated.
