Present-day orgies have nothing in common with their past analogues

Excerpt: Orgiastic practices were part of all pagan cultures in days of old. In one way or another, the practices had to do with the cult of fertility and the worship of certain deities associated with the cult. Special days marking the end of a season were allotted for festivities in which the people were allowed to take a break from their daily toil and “let off steam.”

Let us imagine a couple of situations in order to draw the line between group sex and an orgy.

Two tipsy men are trying to elbow each other aside as they bill and coo a woman that looks completely loaded. A husband who is craving to spice up his sex life has somehow managed to talk his wife into having a threesome i.e. a sex session involving himself, his wife and another woman at the same time. However, the man seemed to overestimate his lovemaking potential and imagination and therefore ends up making a nuisance of himself in the eyes of his bewildered wife and the other woman who looked bored and disappointed. Or a sex party in a bathhouse where two or three couples are swinging partners and going all the way while others just sit around and watch the show, sipping at their drinks. The above activities fall under group sex.

The picture looks slightly different when it comes to an orgy. This kind of sexual behavior involves a number of people engaged in an act of licentious revelry including kissing, hugging and the like in a venue chosen for the occasion. The participants sip their wine without getting drunk; the wine can only make the flame in their bodies grow higher. They frolic naked in the grass or on the floor; they dance their wildest dances while getting ready to penetrate one another repeatedly and joyfully. The public intercourse between people of any gender or sexual orientation can last for hours, no holds barred. A sexual orgy implies no limits or restrictions whatsoever – a basic difference between the above and group sex. Group sex is just group sex, whereas an orgy is a practice performed when everything is permitted..........