Nuisance Sex Behaviors and Crime

In this first series of readings, we are concerned with those behaviors that are neither dangerous nor threatening to society. We have deliberately chosen readings that reflect various forms of sexual behaviors.

The first reading, “Swinging: A Functional Alternative to Prostitution,” deals with co-marital sexual behavior. Relying upon past research while working on his doctorate degree at Indiana University, coupled with additional current research and interviews, Ronald Holmes offers a glimpse into the world of fun moralists, or swingers. The original research was based on interviews with 268 swingers in the Midwest. Now, 20 years later, other swingers were interviewed, along with five couples from the original group. For several years, swinging was in a moribund state, ...