THE VELVET UNDERGROUND by Michael Leigh

Author:Michael Leigh [Leigh, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sexology
ISBN: 9781909923416
Published: 2013-10-22T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

A glance at any of the private bulletins issued by various clubs reveals husband-and-wife advertising teams from every state in the union, and it may be wondered how many of these couples are seeking to engage in correspondence leading to sex trading and how many are innocent. Study of one bulletin, followed by research on a liberal cross-section, determined that advertisers could be divided into four categories:

(1) The innocent and very small minority which shied away from any discussion of sex habits, orthodox or otherwise, approximately five per cent.

(2) Those who desired only to exchange pornographic photographs and correspondence (those who enjoyed “artistic modelling”), approximately fifteen per cent.

(3) Those who did not want to engage in correspondence over any prolonged period and insisted upon knowing only those who lived within driving distance in order to effect reasonably swift meetings, approximately thirty per cent.

(4) Those who would correspond with all, education, social status and attractions accepted, but who wanted swift meetings and would drive or fly to effect them, or expected those with whom they were in contact to do so, fifty per cent.

For the purpose of research, the first and second categories were deemed unfruitful, and the fourth presented what appeared to be insuperable difficulties, so I decided to concentrate on the third.

I first answered the ad of a couple in the St. Petersburg Tampa area saying that a vacation in Florida was due, and I asked for a definition of “broad-mindedness”, “sophisticated behaviour” and “modernity”.

The reply received was to the point. No obscenities or suggestive terms were used by the husband who answered, but he made it clear that he and his wife indulged in joint extra-marital sex and enjoyed modern get-togethers.

This particular man was unpleasant on any terms and his case would not be cited were it not for the fact that it illustrates how one contact inevitably leads to many others across the country. Because of him, my investigation turned in quite another direction, to Memphis, Tennessee and then to St. Louis, Missouri.

The Florida correspondent, like many others contacted, was in business for himself and more than comfortably well-off. He owned his home and was a father.

What made him objectionable was the air of sanctimoniousness with which he contrived to cloak everything, even sex trading. This, in its peculiar way, was more offensive, because of its pseudo-holiness, than the more frank attitudes of other, much cruder men. Only on three occasions did he allow himself to use the vernacular, and then the terms used were calculated to cause the least offense. He had more sexual ego than appetite, but he did exchange his wife for other men’s wives, and she was cooperative.

He recounted two occasions on which sex trading had taken place with the prior knowledge and consent of all concerned. On another occasion, it was revealed that, while he was successful with the other man’s wife, his own wife had not been successful with the husband due (he felt) to her “backwardness” and reticence. As

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