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For different uses of the word orgy, see Orgy. For political parties using this name, see Australian Sex Party and The Sex Party.
"Key party" redirects here. For the Japanese record label, see Key Party Records.
Orgy or group sex scene illustration by Édouard-Henri Avril.

A sex party is a gathering at which sexual activity takes place. Sex parties may be organized to enable people to engage in casual sexual activity or for swinging couples or people interested in group sex to meet, but any gathering where sexual activity is anticipated can be called a sex party.

Sex parties, under various names, have been a common focus of moral panics fed by media reports claiming that such parties are prevalent, or growing in prevalence, especially among teenagers.[1]

Types of sex parties

Swinger party

A swinger party or partner swapping party is a gathering at which individuals or couples of any gender or orientation can engage in sexual activities with others as a recreational or social activity.[2] Swinging can take place in a number of contexts, ranging from a spontaneous sexual activity at an informal social gathering of friends to a regular social gathering in sex clubs or residences.

The swingers can engage in a number of sexual activities to include threesomes, group sex, orgies, or various sex acts.[3] Partners can engage in penetrative sex known as "full swap," while in "soft swap" they engage only in non-penetrative sex. New swinging couples often choose a soft swap before they are comfortable with a full swap, although many couples stay soft swap for personal reasons.[4] Soft swinging can also be defined as when a couple engage in sexual activities with only each other while two or more other couples perform sex acts in the immediate vicinity.[5]

Key party

Key parties are a form of swinging parties, in which male partners place their car and house keys into a common bowl or bag on arriving. At the end of the evening the female partners would randomly select keys from the bowl and leave with that key's owner.[6]

Rainbow party

A rainbow party is an urban legend spread from the early 2000s. At these events, allegedly increasingly popular among adolescents, females wearing various shades of lipstick take turns fellating males in sequence, leaving multiple colours on their penises.[7] Rainbow parties were covered on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2003, and became the subject of a juvenile novel called Rainbow Party.[7] On May 27, 2010 the television program The Doctors discussed the topic with dozens of teens, parents, and professionals. However, sex researchers and adolescent health care professionals have found no evidence for the existence of rainbow parties, and as such attribute the spread of the stories to a moral panic.[7]

Orgy

An orgy is the open and free sexual activity among many men and women in the same setting for recreation; different from group sex in that it implies a total lack of inhibition by all involved with potentially bisexual activity in a wild, possibly drunken, revelrous state.[8]

Sex parties in the media

Sensational media reports about the prevalence of sex parties, especially among young people, appear with some regularity. In the early 1950s, for example, it was reported that teenage girls, mainly throughout the Southern and Midwestern United States were forming "non virgin clubs," in which they organized and held sex orgies with reports of couples being paired off by drawing numbers from a hat. These claims were investigated and debunked.[9][10][11][12]

Several stories of this type arose in the US in 2003. In New York, rumors began that teens had been taking days off from school to attend "hooky parties" while their parents were at work. One school even suspended a group of girls for allegedly skipping school to attend such a party. They were refused the right to return to school until each had submitted to a medical examination for sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy and school officials were allowed to examine the results. The New York Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit against the school [13] on behalf of the girls and won a settlement which included monetary damages and a change in the school district's policy.[14]

Similar stories concerning teenagers using gel bracelets as coupons or signals for sex also arose at the time, with similar lack of corroborating evidence.[15]

References

Notes
  1. ^ Daly, Susan (Jun 26 2010). "Is your teen sending secret sex signals?". Irish Independent. Retrieved 16 November 2010. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. ^ Bergstrand, Curtis (2000-10-10). "Today's Alternative Marriage Styles: The Case of Swingers". Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality. 3. Retrieved 2010-01-24. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  3. ^ Wojick, Helen (October 2010). "Differences Between Threesomes, Group Sex and Orgies". The Swinger Blog. Retrieved April 15, 2012.
  4. ^ Wojick, Helen (Sept 2011). "What is a Swinger?". The Swinger Blog. Retrieved April 15, 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  5. ^ from the Lifestyle Definitions page on Swinger Social Network
  6. ^ Bell, Robert (1971). Social Deviance: A Substantive Analysis. University of Michigan: Dorsey Press. p. 74. ISBN 978-0256016635.
  7. ^ a b c Lewin, Tamar (June 30, 2005). "Are These Parties for Real?". The New York Times. Retrieved August 27, 2009.
  8. ^ collaborative. "Lifestyle Definitions - Orgy". Swinger Social Network. Retrieved April 15, 2012.
  9. ^ "'Non Virgin Club' New Aspect Of Teen-age Sex Misbehavior", Eugene Register-Guard, August 26, 1951
  10. ^ Cahn, Susan (2007). Sexual Reckonings: Southern Girls in a Troubling Age. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. (p. 199) ISBN 978-0-674-02452-6
  11. ^ Peril, Lynn (2002). Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons. New York. W.W. Norton & Company Inc. (pp. 100-101) ISBN 0-303-32354-4
  12. ^ Mattoon, Illinois History 1950-1959
  13. ^ "NYCLU Sues New York School Officials for Forcing Teen-Age Girls to Undergo Intrusive Medical Exams" (July 8, 2003). aclu.org. Retrieved February 2, 2007.
  14. ^ nyclu.org/case/doe-and-roe-v-reid
  15. ^ Mikkelson, Barbara (2003). "Sex Bracelets". snopes.com. Retrieved December 22, 2005.
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