Opinion

How Old-School Sexual Freedoms are the New Warped Utopia in Dating

We troll the night looking for the next hook-up. Call us sexual vultures because that’s who we are. — Dellia, Generation Z

Timothy Agnew [email protected]

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Swingers!

Roger “Roj” Emocle is ninety but looks much younger. His thick hair laps his forehead in a messy wave of white tendrils. He still lives at home, and after arranging it with his grandson, we agreed on a Zoom call to talk about swinging.

Couple swinging.

“In the Air Force, stationed in California, we all did it,” he tells me, “we’d have parties, wild-wild west ones, and at the end of the night we’d just wind up with each other’s wives.”“What about later?” I asked.Roger squints into the screen. This is probably his first Zoom, I think, but he later would tell me he Zooms with his family.“In the 1970s and on it was a popular thing. Not for me. I settled down then, after my first divorce.”