Chapter 74

But the date night with our friends, which Jason and Crystal would host, was going to be a genuine test of our dabbling in the swinger lifestyle. The four of us talked about it quite a bit. Jess was enthusiastic about it because she loved variety, and this was a transparent way to get that. Kat had a similar feeling, but she also took a great deal of comfort in exploring that variety in a safe space. These were trusted friends. Kat enjoyed sexual exploration but had grown in a direction that made her distrust the more random encounters she used to love. Rita had a similar view to Kat’s, but there was also an underlying appreciation that swinging with close friends or putting together an inner circle of intimate friends made it more like an extension of our family, which was always at the forefront of her thoughts and desires.

My view was somewhat of a hybrid from those of my girlfriends. Like Jess, I loved variety. It was a core part of me. But our lives had changed in importa