Swinging and the Sanctuary – You’re Sharing Your Pews with Pervs

Growing up dead center in the Bible Belt, I had Moses’ twelve commandments memorized before the pledge of allegiance and had a much greater fear of damnation than any snakes, spiders, or dark closets. 

Not only did I grow up somewhere between the “I” and the second “B” in the Bible Belt, but I grew up the son of enthusiastic Sunday School teachers in a Southern Baptist Church. 

With an upbringing like this, I was pretty sure during my childhood years that the female members of the congegration did not remove their panties to pee much less engage in sexual debauchery with more than one person at a time.

Wow!  If I had only known then what I know now, think of the fantasies I could have had during those long boring sermons as a young boy!  Well…. that would be bad too, because I seem to remember masturbation being “of the devil” as well!

Mrs. Gentlenibbles and I were blown away when we first started meeting couples in the Lifestyle at just how normal everyone is.  People come from all walks of life, all ages, all forms of professions, and yes even all different types of religions.  As a matter of fact, we find the percentage of people active in the church to be the same for our friends inside the Lifestyle as those on the out. 

Not only do we find the numbers about the same, but of those “Swinger” friends we know who do go to church we find them no less active or passionate than our vanilla pew dwelling friends.   To satisfy our curiosity, last week we introduced a new poll on Gentle Nibbles to get an idea of how active our readership was in the church.  So far the numbers have been amazing.

Of all respondents only 18% are not religious whatsoever. 

Also, of all respondents only 4% were not swingers. 

That means 78% of our readers are swingers and do consider themselves spiritual or religious.

Here are some other interesting Statistics pulled from outside sources:

A study of pastors sponsored by Christianity Today found that 23% of 300 pastors admitted some form of sexually inappropriate behavior with someone other than their wives while in the ministry”

-Journal of Psychology & Christianity 8, no. 4 (Winter 1989)
 Torn Asunder, Dave Carder, pg. 26

 

Durex’s Global Sex Survey has found that worldwide 22%  of the population have had extramarital sex.  (Keep in mind this includes many Muslim countries where the penalty is death by stoning)

-Durex. The Global Sex Survey 2005. Published online. (via -Wikipedia)

So I guess my ponderance boils down to this? 

If religion and spirituality is so popular among Swingers, adultery is so prevalent within the church, and extramarital sex so popular worldwide, then why exactly is there a need for Mrs. Gentlenibbles and I to publish this blog about swinging under aliases versus our real names?   ….other than the fact “Gentle Nibbles” is so much more catching!

As swingers Mrs. Gentlenibbles and I don’t consider our actions adultery.  Our experiences are open, honest, and for the full enjoyment and benefit of each other. 

What are your thoughts on this?  Also, make sure and vote in the poll below.

Here is another post we wrote about Adultery versus Swinging.

WWJD – Maybe in this case the “J” could stand for Jezebel, Jenna Jameson, or even some guy name Jeremy?

~Mr. Gentlenibbles