Orgies: Still Speading Insanity After All These Years

From Breitbart, home of tabloid wire journalism, this icky chestnut:

"It's crazy that they want to force their morality down our throats," said Dawn Burton, 45, a regular guest at the parties. "We're all frustrated."

So are those who complain of the noise, traffic and parking problems that occur in their otherwise quiet, upscale neighborhood every Friday and Saturday, when Trulock's home is transformed into "The Cherry Pit."

Duncanville, which proclaims itself "The Perfect Blend of Family, Community and Business," is an unlikely venue for a neighborhood swinger club. The city of 36,000 just southwest of Dallas has about 50 places of worship and not a single registered sexually oriented business.

Duncanville officials insist they are not just another prudish Texas town giving the boot to spouse-swappers. They say it all boils down to a matter of law: Trulock is operating a business featuring live sex acts.

"It's not trying to judge anyone or pass judgment on someone's lifestyle," city spokeswoman Tonya Lewis said.

To support its claim, the city notes that the Cherry Pit accepts money from guests and promotes the parties on its Web site.

"We're not about infringing on the rights of the Cherry Pit patrons or owners," Lewis said. "But now your right to have fun has infringed on everyone else's. And now you have to draw the line."

In the anti-orgy spirit, let's take things one at a time. First: is anything more depressing than suburban sex parties for the over-40 set? Second: in the forced down throats department, I'll take morality any day. Third: noise, traffic, and parking complaints may be among the inevitable externalities of unregulated free love. But surely you can enforce regulations on those externalities by shutting down the source. If this works for house parties full of kids stealing kisses, why not for house parties full of aging perverts humping each other silly? Finally, how is prohibiting profit from sex and sexual performances not an act that passes judgment on lifestyles that involve paying for, or accepting payment for, sex or sexual performances? Of course it is. If the desperate and pathetic Tonya Lewis thinks she can avoid enraging the sex party community, and their inevitable squad of lawerly intellectual prostitutes, by indulging in the ridiculous indignity of bending over so far backwards, she's likely to find herself in as compromising a position as her partygoing critics. Ah, sex parties for old people: where bourgeois goes to die.

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[William Burns]

You're still young enough to be offended by the idea of people you find old and unattractive having sex?

[James]

In the war on orgies, I realize that probably the best I can hope for is an interdict on the practice among unattractive old yuppies in suburbia.