Las Vegas (ANTARA News) - Matt Virtue, who works as a consultant at a Washington law firm, says he spends more than $10,000 a year to attend conventions, hotels and clubs where he and his girlfriend can have sex with other partners.
"Any other hobby that I was into at 40 years old is going to cost me $10,000," he said from a hot tub he was sharing with his girlfriend and a couple with whom they had been intimate the night before. "Dude, I'm addicted to it, there is no doubt about it."
Such enthusiasm has turned what were once private passions into a multimillion dollar business. Lifestyles Organization, the nation's largest swinger services company, has annual sales of about $15 million.
Swingers also bring in millions of dollars to specialty clubs and hotels in the United States as well as Jamaica, Mexico, France and elsewhere.
"We're talking about a lifestyle, but in reality we are also talking about a business," Robert McGinley, 73, the president of Lifestyles Organization, said during its annual convention in Las Vegas, which attracts about 900 couples.
Lifestyles Organization caters to a middle-class demographic who want to meet like-minded couples and who typically want to hide their passions from what they call "vanillas" (conventional couples).
Efforts to meet such couples outside those circles often fail, giving tour, club and convention organizers steady business.
Terri, 48, attending the convention from Boise, Idaho -- who asked that her last name not be published -- said she and her husband of 21 years spend as much as $8,000 a year on several weeks of swinging vacations and club visits.
At this year's event, Anaheim, California-based Lifestyles Organization contracted out an entire hotel near the Las Vegas Strip and organized seminars and parties for middle-aged couples.
The most exhibitionist of those gathered in open hotel rooms after midnight to have sex as others watched or joined in. Some couples made small talk as they were engaged in sex, including one man who boasted that his son was in medical school.
"The other night I looked up and there were five or six people looking," said Terri, who retired from the U.S. Air Force two years ago. "I'm glad I was giving them a good show."
"I've had three (lovers) in the past 24 hours."
Leading sex researchers say they do not know the number of swingers in the United States, so it is difficult to pinpoint how much business the subculture represents overall.
Rick Conner, a swinger and author of an advice book for such couples, estimates there are 100,000 U.S. swingers, of whom 20,000 are particularly active. Other swingers have suggested the number is in the low millions.
No sex in the reataurant
Despite the unusual focus of the convention, McGinley shares the bottom-line concerns of many businessmen.
"In business there is risk and you have to decide is it a reasonable risk or not," he told Reuters. "Behind the scenes there is a lot of planning that goes into this and a lot of going over financials, financials of the past and what is the current situation."
He said couples paid a registration fee of $690, out of which $200 covered costs, leaving an overall profit of more than $400,000. Couples pay additionally for hotel rooms and flight costs.
Lifestyles Organization faced a few unusual incidents. His staff had to halt one couple from engaging in a sex act inside the Tuscany Suites restaurant.
Conventions bring Lifestyles $4 million in annual sales; their travel business booking swinging guests into resorts such as Hedonism II in Jamaica or Desire in Mexico bring in another $10 million to $12 million a year, McGinley said.
"We relax our already liberal rules to accommodate the Lifestyles Organization and make the entire resort clothing-optional," explained Richard Bourke, general manager of Hedonism II.
He said Lifestyles Organization books $2 million of rooms a year over six contracted weeks. Hedonism II staff are barred from intimate relations with the guests and some have been fired for violating the edict, Bourke said.
"You have resorts with big-name resort companies that are catering to it," McGinley said. "They're not into swinging at all, but they are into making money, and we're the ones that provide the clients for them."
Desire Resort and Spa in Los Cabos, Mexico opened in November with a focus on the swinging market. About half of the guests are active swingers, according to Jesus Prado Leal, a receptionist.
Several hundred clubs nationwide also cater to swingers.
Jeff James, who works for Club Freedom Acres in San Bernardino County east of Los Angeles, said 225 to 260 couples visit on a typical Saturday night, paying $85 each, with a similar number on Fridays paying $65. "It's doubled in daily attendance in the last three years," he said.
Swinging also boosts ancillary services such as breast enhancements and erectile dysfunction drugs. "Viagra is definitely part of the adult scene," said Deborah, a 52-year old aesthetician grandmother from Dallas, Texas, who asked that her last name not be used. "Instead of four stars before, it's probably five stars now."
News, Subjects Related to Universe, Galaxy, Solar System, Earth, Humanity, Society, Community, ...
Change (Peace, Love & Unity) is in the Air Now ! ... Time to GET IT !
"This World Belongs to Everybody" & "The Big Picture - You Are Not Alone"
"The State of the Earth" - The Predicted Weather Shift (Mini Ice Age - 2032 !!)
"The State of the Earth" - The Predicted Weather Shift (Mini Ice Age - 2032 !!)
(Solar and Heliospheric Observatory - website / spaceweather.com)
"Earth, the only planet with free choice in the Milky Way Galaxy" |
“.. A
billion years ago, they (Pleiadians)
went through a change and they went through a shift, and they had free choice.
Back then, they were the only planet that did in their time, and eventually
they went through a metamorphosis of consciousness. ”
“.. So
again, we tell you that the ones who came to help seed you approximately 100,000
to 200,000 Earth years ago were the Pleiadians who had gone into graduate
status and who had changed consciousness. They had become quantum with free
choice, and you have parts of their DNA within you. ..”
“..You're
surrounded by divine beings who keep you safe and will continue while this
planet of only free choice – the only one at the moment – makes its decision.
You're turning the corner of consciousness and they all know it, for they've
all been through it and they remember it. Oh dear ones, consciousness is
volatile! You've seen it change so slowly, but it's about to change faster.
It's not going to take generations and generations as in the past. Instead,
you're going to see real-time changes. Humans won't wait to have children for
them to grow up and have children. ..”
"The Quantum Factor" – Apr 10, 2011 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects:
Galaxies, Universe, Intelligent design, Benevolent design, Aliens, Nikola Tesla
(Quantum energy), Inter-Planetary Travel, DNA, Genes, Stem Cells, Cells,
Rejuvenation, Shift of Human Consciousness, Spontaneous Remission, Religion,
Dictators, Africa, China, Nuclear Power, Sustainable Development, Animals,
Global Unity.. etc.) - (Text Version)
“.. In
time, the quantum factor will be discovered on this planet. When it is, it will
be highly controversial, and it's going to fly in the face of logic and 3D and
the way things work via the scientific method. The ramp-up to all this is
difficult. The old souls in front of me have signed on to work this new energy
and they've waded through lifetimes, just waiting for this. What would you do
as a scientist if the experiments before you had "a mind of their
own"? What would you think if magnetics, gravity and light could only be
assembled in a certain way that created healing and never a destructive
alignment? All this is going to redefine some of the basic forces in the
Universe. Intelligent design is only the first, and even today many astronomers
and physicists still think it's an anomaly.
That will
be the next largest discovery on the planet. It's been held back from you
because it takes a higher vibrating consciousness to create and understand it.
When any planet discovers a quantum energy and is able to use it, you could go
to that planet and know that you will meet high-consciousness entities. This
has never been given to you before that, for within the quantum factor contains
the secret of interplanetary travel using large, entangled states. There are
ways of doing things you never thought could happen. You can throw away your
rocket ships. You're on the edge of that.
..”
“… And so,
dear Human Being, you have the ability to start to return to an energy that you
thought you'd lost, where Human beings are allowed to live longer and it
doesn't destroy the environment. They don't overcrowd themselves because they
can control it through their minds instead of laws... and through wisdom.
Some day you'll meet the star seeds, your Pleiadian sisters and brothers. They're even here now, since they are quantum. You've got Pleiadian ancestors who live a very, very long time in a graduate situation in a planet that went through the test just like yours. And it developed a quantum factor. They have benevolence and they have quantum energy. That's how they get here instantly and return, and they'll never interrupt your free choice. That's also why they don't land and say hello. Instead, they sit and cheer on the sidelines for what you've finally done. They are waiting with you to celebrate the December solstice of 2012... the half way point of the 36 year shift you are in. …”
Some day you'll meet the star seeds, your Pleiadian sisters and brothers. They're even here now, since they are quantum. You've got Pleiadian ancestors who live a very, very long time in a graduate situation in a planet that went through the test just like yours. And it developed a quantum factor. They have benevolence and they have quantum energy. That's how they get here instantly and return, and they'll never interrupt your free choice. That's also why they don't land and say hello. Instead, they sit and cheer on the sidelines for what you've finally done. They are waiting with you to celebrate the December solstice of 2012... the half way point of the 36 year shift you are in. …”
Milky Way Galaxy / Black Hole - "Other galaxies have their own spiritual systems and physics"
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- Seven Earth-like planets discovered around single star
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"Demystifying the future" + "Physics in the next 500 years"(#) - May 16-17, 2014 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll) - (#) (This channel will become a historical channel in the future, prove that Kryon is a real communication from the Creative Source/God to Humanity - "Our Family") - (Text version "Physics in the next 500 years")
1 To seea nd measure multi-dimensional/quantum physics, instrument (super-cooling quantum plasma lens)
2 Two more laws of multi-dimensional physics revealed: explanation of dark matter & acknowledgement of free energy (controlling mass)
3 God in the atom. God has - provable - part in physics. Intelligent/benevolent design. (Will bring religion and science together)
4 Human Consciousness is an attribute of physics. (Pleiadians - Humans ancestors / Humans free choice only planet in the Milky Way Galaxy. Other galaxies have their own spiritual systems and physics)
5 Coherent DNA. Multidimensional DNA coherent between dimensions will give Enhanced DNA
Quantum Physics Science
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The Key to Life is Balance
"If you do not like the state of your world, it is you yourselves that must change, individually and en masse. This is the only way that change will be effected." - SETH SPEAKING
(Channeled by Jane Roberts 1929 – 1984 - The 1974 Interview-video)
Dealing with Changing Energies
- The Final Ascension Process – Sep 23, 2012 (a message from Kuthumi channeled by Lynette Leckie-Clark)
- Opening To 2013 – Aug 13, 2012 (a message from Kuthumi channeled by Lynette Leckie-Clark)
- Quantum Living begins 2012 – 30 Oct 2011 (a message from Kuthumi channeled by Lynette Leckie-Clark)
- "Prepare for 2012's Energies" - 2 Sep 2011 (a message from The Council of 12 channelled by Selacia)
- 1 - Travel lightly. Release your own emotional clutter and baggage of past
- 2 - Recognition. Own or throw it out. "Is this emotion mine or someone else’s?”
- 3 - Transmute. Treat others as you yourself would like to be treated.
- ("Essential survival kit" - a message from Kuthumi channeled by Lynette Leckie-Clark)
- 4 - Completion. Completion is total release on the emotional body. Total release of all cords and attachments.
- ("Your New Energy Field" - a message from Kuthumi channeled by Lynette Leckie-Clark)
- "Transform Your Reactions to Quantum Reactions" - Sep 2, 2011 - (a message from Kuthumi channeled by Lynette Leckie-Clark)
- “The Secret of Mastery” - May 15, 2010 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll)
- ("The Holograms of Creation" - Apr 2011 - a message from Kuthumi channeled by Lynette Leckie-Clark)
- The Physical Vessel Is A Wondrous Creation (symptoms of ascension you experience) - Nov 2010 (Archangel Michael Channeling)
- ("2011 - A Year of Unity" - a message from Kuthumi channeled by Lynette Leckie-Clark)
Blossom Goodchild and White Cloud Live! (12 November 2020)
ABSOLUTE PROOF THE CHANGE HAS BEGUN. Blossom and White Cloud speak.
Kryon link spoken by Blossom Goodchild (and White Cloud) in above video
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- The Federation of Light as channelled by Blossom Goodchild June 9, 2024
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- 2012 The Online Movie: Final Cut
- The Psychic Twins predict 2012 on Tyra!
- Ask the Psychic Twins
- 2010 UFO Convention - David Sereda - Reverse Engineered UFO Technology (YouTube 1-12)
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- Mary Rodwell: The New Humans - Starchildren & Indigos (Video)
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- Filippo Interviews Sheldan Nidle - Part 1-6 (Video)
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- Odisealink The Movie Documentary: The Alien Encounter Of Dr. Jonathan Reed
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Lee Carroll is an American channeller, speaker and author.
Originally an audio engineer, Carroll claims that he began to channel communication with an entity from a higher dimension called Kryon in 1989. He describes Kryon as an angelic loving entity from the Source (or "Central Sun") who has been with the Earth "since the beginning" and belonging to the same "Family" of Archangel Michael.
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The information he publishes, both printed and online, is intended to help humans ascend to a higher vibrational level.
Greg Braden "If we are honest, truthful, considerate, caring and compassionate, if we live this each day, we have already prepared for whatever could possibly come on 2012 or any other day, any other year, any time in our future."
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Swingers are growth business for U.S. firms
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