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Wife Swapping Italians Make Lunch A Swinging Affair
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by LotusFlower | August 5, 2008 at 01:13 am
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The Italian leader Silvio Berlusconi recently jokingly offered his wife to the Danish prime minister but maybe it wasn't so far from the truth of Italian sexual culture as we find that wife swapping and swinging is the favourite pastime of many Italians. In the past the stereotype was of the male Italian having an eye out for girls on the street and making passes it seemed to all women behind their wives backs. Now the wives seem to have joined in openly swapping partners. With this increased promiscuity and the Catholic church ban on using condoms one might expect an increase in sexually transmitted diseases amongst the middle classes perhaps.
Married couples flocking to the Tuscan countryside or the Eternal City this summer might want to think twice before accepting that generous dinner party invitation from the welcoming Italian couple. They might get more than they bargained for. If a new report is to be believed, it seems a quarter of all Italian couples regularly take part in wife swapping.
The revelation comes not from the seedier quarters of the country that gave the world Casanova, but from the usually po-faced pages of national broadsheet La Stampa. According to yesterday's front page article, entitled "The Lunch Time Swingers", an estimated 500,000 Italian couples are officially swapping partners at private sex clubs, with thousands more doing it in a more ad-hoc fashion in car parks, specially designated beaches or even cemeteries.
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at 01:55 on August 5th, 2008
LotusFlower, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 02:05 on August 5th, 2008
LotusFlower, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 04:26 on August 5th, 2008
LotusFlower, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 05:33 on August 5th, 2008
LotusFlower, I like this story. It's hot stuff.
at 06:29 on August 5th, 2008
Lucky Italian men! Considering modern Italian women are rather hot and stylish, these guys are making me jealous.
at 16:55 on February 11th, 2009
No kidding, and you forgot to mention most of em can cook some badass italian food. These guys have it too good.
at 06:49 on August 5th, 2008
LotusFlower, I like this story. It's good stuff.
Are we in the 21st century or still in the Middle ages?
I do not understand why we are getting so worked up about the Moslems when in the Modern Western World things are pretty much the same way, just looking a little different at first glance!
at 06:59 on August 5th, 2008
LotusFlower, I like this story. It's good summer stuff. Allmost all Italian business men having a girl friend to the official married women. Some Manager advice: How you recognize, when you are invited if you talk to the wife or to the girl friend? The girl friend pays for herself. The "business man" always like during a phone call, if you ask for the girl friend. No answer means he is in bad mood, no business. So far from Italy, "gelatto subido". Best looking women, go Rome, evening colosseum, you will be surprised. Don't forget to buy some roses, eat the delicious home made icecream, go for open air opera..marry her, don't forget this event.Paschen just was reading your comment, you are right, invite you for a reality trip, Goethe was there, he preferred naples, Wagner, Ibsen travelled to the Amalfi coast, in an ancient monestery they have been thinking, creating Parsifal..., sorry no women in this context. Nice summer day to all Italy fans.
at 07:01 on August 5th, 2008
LotusFlower, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 07:50 on August 5th, 2008
LotusFlower, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 08:46 on August 5th, 2008
Good work.
at 05:53 on August 6th, 2008
i pettegolezzi su Berlusconi non hanno confini come vedo