I've giggled for several years now about the stories involving white rocks and swingers in the Lionsgate neighborhood at 147th and Nall.
I was at a dinner party last night where the topic again arose. With the wine flowing freely, I realized that among my Johnson County friends this myth is considered steadfastly true. When I mocked them for being so silly they began to tell me all the "evidence" or why this is true. There is the TV show, I'm told there was a story on Channel 9 about it. Of course there are the 4th person accounts of people you don't actually know who have supposedly been. So and so knows a guy who said he knows people who are in the lifestyle and confirmed it......right.
Let me back up for those of you who don't know of the seedy legend of the white rocks. There is a story that has been circulating for several years that there is a contingent of active swingers in the Lionsgate neighborhood and that they signal their swing-mates, er, fellow swingers about where the party is by having white rocks in their front yard and by coloring them a certain way with lights. There is a variation of the story that says a big white rock others suggest small white rocks. Some say when the rock is turned a certain way or when lit up with certain colors. No matter the variation you subscribe to the outcome is that it signals the next swingers party at that location. How exciting for all us if it were only true.
While there is no doubt there are swingers everywhere around us in Johnson County and all parts of the civilized world, I'm sure this white rocks tale is a mere myth. It is silly to suggest that people who engage in this dank little corner of maritial sexuality aren't smart enough to find each other without the aid of white rocks. No doubt the internet has been the fuel for people seeking these off the norm sexual experiences and has enabled people seeking these relationships to look for them with some level of security and privacy. Wouldn't you think they'd use things like evite, email, mapquest, etc to provide people with the secret location of the swingers ball.
I did a little research and was interested to read that a very similar version of the story pops up in England in 2007. Perhaps it is easily explainable in that it is the ritual of swingers clubs across the world? Perhaps the Swingers Guide Book codifies the proper procedure for signaling a rendevous is with white rocks in all neighborhoods? Or perhaps that someone from Lionsgate moved to England and took the secret with them? You can link to that story here. Doubtful, right?
I like what that blogger said and it struck home with me why we create these little tales of titilaton and excitement. We hate the idea that others in suburbia might be having more fun than us. In our peaceful, staid surburban life we like the idea of spicing it up a bit, perhaps even fanticize about the neighbor we secretly thinkis hot but would never consider following through but love to think that someone else might having that adventure.
My vision of swingers is different than I think exists in the minds of many I presume.....I could be wrong. My vision of a swinging couple is not the hot, buff, trim, professional, late 30's couple in Lionsgate but the plump couple, not so cute, a little older couple in Belton who are flat out bored with each other and their sex life. They have watched copious amounts of porn and actually think the behavior is some sort of culturally repressed normal urge that should be filled. Okay, I have to admit at the dinner party I was looking around the room and I was thinking....."These are some damn well to do sojoco'ers....which ones would I like to swing with if I could?" So I'm surveying the dinner party and sizing up the ladies. You know what? Nothing got me excited.....and then the thought of one of the men doing my wife.....well let's say not exciting to me.
So what do you think? Have you been to one of these parties in Lionsgate? Are you a Johnson County Swinger yourself? Do you think it is a myth as well? What is the vision in your mind of a swinging couple?
I was at a dinner party last night where the topic again arose. With the wine flowing freely, I realized that among my Johnson County friends this myth is considered steadfastly true. When I mocked them for being so silly they began to tell me all the "evidence" or why this is true. There is the TV show, I'm told there was a story on Channel 9 about it. Of course there are the 4th person accounts of people you don't actually know who have supposedly been. So and so knows a guy who said he knows people who are in the lifestyle and confirmed it......right.
Let me back up for those of you who don't know of the seedy legend of the white rocks. There is a story that has been circulating for several years that there is a contingent of active swingers in the Lionsgate neighborhood and that they signal their swing-mates, er, fellow swingers about where the party is by having white rocks in their front yard and by coloring them a certain way with lights. There is a variation of the story that says a big white rock others suggest small white rocks. Some say when the rock is turned a certain way or when lit up with certain colors. No matter the variation you subscribe to the outcome is that it signals the next swingers party at that location. How exciting for all us if it were only true.
While there is no doubt there are swingers everywhere around us in Johnson County and all parts of the civilized world, I'm sure this white rocks tale is a mere myth. It is silly to suggest that people who engage in this dank little corner of maritial sexuality aren't smart enough to find each other without the aid of white rocks. No doubt the internet has been the fuel for people seeking these off the norm sexual experiences and has enabled people seeking these relationships to look for them with some level of security and privacy. Wouldn't you think they'd use things like evite, email, mapquest, etc to provide people with the secret location of the swingers ball.
I did a little research and was interested to read that a very similar version of the story pops up in England in 2007. Perhaps it is easily explainable in that it is the ritual of swingers clubs across the world? Perhaps the Swingers Guide Book codifies the proper procedure for signaling a rendevous is with white rocks in all neighborhoods? Or perhaps that someone from Lionsgate moved to England and took the secret with them? You can link to that story here. Doubtful, right?
I like what that blogger said and it struck home with me why we create these little tales of titilaton and excitement. We hate the idea that others in suburbia might be having more fun than us. In our peaceful, staid surburban life we like the idea of spicing it up a bit, perhaps even fanticize about the neighbor we secretly thinkis hot but would never consider following through but love to think that someone else might having that adventure.
My vision of swingers is different than I think exists in the minds of many I presume.....I could be wrong. My vision of a swinging couple is not the hot, buff, trim, professional, late 30's couple in Lionsgate but the plump couple, not so cute, a little older couple in Belton who are flat out bored with each other and their sex life. They have watched copious amounts of porn and actually think the behavior is some sort of culturally repressed normal urge that should be filled. Okay, I have to admit at the dinner party I was looking around the room and I was thinking....."These are some damn well to do sojoco'ers....which ones would I like to swing with if I could?" So I'm surveying the dinner party and sizing up the ladies. You know what? Nothing got me excited.....and then the thought of one of the men doing my wife.....well let's say not exciting to me.
So what do you think? Have you been to one of these parties in Lionsgate? Are you a Johnson County Swinger yourself? Do you think it is a myth as well? What is the vision in your mind of a swinging couple?
And finally.......Ms Jayhawk July........nothing to do with swinging in Lionsgate but what a blessing. Tacky, I know but I can't resist. This is Mariel from Hoyt, Kansas.
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