ather than private clubs (prive'), I did prefer to investigate the swinging of common and unsuspected married people, practiced very far away from the clubs. Secretly I taped 202 swings of couples and I made a book out of it". Roberto Di Marco is speaking. Writer, psychologist and criminologist, consultant in the law court of Rome, author of the book "Il gioco delle coppie (The couple's game)" published from Tullio Pironti.
Why this candid camera about swinging?
"Because in this field the direct questions receive artificial answers. Each one of us has decency and shame mechanisms that, talking about sex, drive him to be less sincere even with himself. But, thanks to 2 swingers accomplice couples, one in Milan and one in Rome, I have taped the spontaneous talks of their swinging guests".
And what did you conclude?
"Before all, a consideration on announcements published on specialized magazines. While on the marriage announcements, sex is taboo, in swinging announcements the sentiment is taboo. Also the size of the sex is detailed. Not to mention the pictures, often horrible".
Does jealousy exist between swingers?
"Of course. But it starts when they realize that the partner, besides sex, begins to have sympathy, and gestures of tenderness for one of the other couple".
Who does take more initiatives, man or woman?
"It is always only one partner, the more curious, the more inquisitive. Usually is the man that drags the other one, that has different rhythms and, at the beginning, let the partner acting. Later will be mostly the women to better handle the situation".

In the swinging, some couples do it in group and others separately Why? 
"In the first case the couples get along well. No crisis in the horizon. In the second one, couples don't completely trust their partner. Making sex in group means controlling the situation".
Are the swingers disunited couples? 
"No, they are always very close, really very joined".
And what does push them to the swing?
"In 25% of my couples, the sexual dissatisfaction of at least one of the two partners. Must be remarked that in 47 out 51 couples of this type, is the woman unsatisfied. 
In 38% is a reaction to the married life routine. They are couples more interested in sexual pleasure. The 15% are disaffected couples that stay together for habit, for the children, or something else. They live the swing independently from the partner. Each one thinks only about his own satisfaction. The 9% are women dominated from their husband, that accept it because still in love of a partner that they don't want to lose. They are the more aspired preys of the lovers of the swing, because nothing is more attractive than a reserved, reluctant woman, in some how to be violated. The classic conquest. At the end there is a 13% difficult to be classed, where we find even bisexual and homosexual cases more or less manifested". 

  G.N.