Part 2 Before the days of the internet, the only ways to meet people for sexual encounters was either to meet them socially and test the waters carefully or to use the specialist ‘contact’ magazines. To begin with I was working for other people (also known as being an employee) and met a number of people both at work and in my travels on business around the world; none of these resulted in any ‘swapping’ activities but I did meet a lady who was in similar circumstances to me and we enjoyed a few years of mutual consolation. However, I eventually moved some distance and changed my mode of employment to one in which I met a lot few people so did resort to the contact magazines in pursuit of what I did hope would be a couple able to change my wife’s approach to things. In the event I met up with one particular couple (we’ll call mary and peter) and things did progress - but slowly and somewhat differently from what I had envisaged. They were established in the swinging scene and I was hoping that they would persuade my wife (Joan) that it was a good idea to try. However in the circumstances they were a bit reluctant about it but we all (three) of us decided that we should have a chat first and see what might happen. After some time I went over to their house for a chat one evening, and while he was quite interested it was obvious that she certainly wasn’t going to ‘betray the sisterhood’ and embark on a route of subterfuge. So that was it, more or less, but we kept in touch spasmodically - and after a year or so had elapsed we decided to see what happened if we four had dinner together. The three of us dug up some subterfuge about Peter and I having worked together some time ago and deciding to meet up with our wives for a reunion diner, and so we did eventually make it to a foursome meet in a restaurant. We all got along well enough and they came back to ours for an after dinner coffee, and while nothing else occurred we agreed ‘to do it again’ - and meanwhile I had a chat with them to see how they read the situation. Essentially they thought it was OK as a social event but that the chances of seducing my wife into the swing scene were remote. My wife’s reaction was that ‘she’s quite nice, but he’s a joke - interesting but a joke all the same’ - so the vibes at this end weren’t exactly going anywhere unless the two girls hit it off together. However, as Mary is bi there was at least a possibility of that given the right circumstances, which circumstances I did manage to set up at one stage. Anyway, we duly met up again and it became something of a regular thing - the four of us going to dinner, sometimes at each other s houses, and back for coffee, but nothing else. I thought that maybe if Joan heard Mary and Peter having sex she might become inteersted in seeing what was happening, and did tery to arrange both ‘weekends away’ (which never happened) or for one couple to stay over at the other’s rather than drive home - but (with hindsight) it was Peter who scupperred that rather than Mary. While this was happening Peter was talking to Mary about a threesome, which she was dead against, not wishing to have anything to do with a deception and so on - and so that continued for a long time. Meanwhile, they continued in their other lifestyle, meeting up with their various friends and from time to time Peter recounted various bits of their adventures to me. After some time Peter began to intimate that Mary was becoming less averse to the prospect of a threesome, but it took some time before this translated into an actual statement that “she’s ready”. - which is really what induced me to impart this whole account Those events and the ensuing I shall describe in part 3.