antedating wife swapping (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Wilson Gray]

> husband and wife swapping

_husband swapping_

This aspect is of no consequence? Probably not, I reckon.

Youneverknow.

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On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> "Wife swapping" (of the adulterous kind) was a fully lexicalized core
> concept by the mid '60s.
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> Now it seems so quaint, so sexist, so archaic, so uninspired.
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> (BTW, the 1886 ex. may refer to non-adulterous, sequential swapping.)
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> JL
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> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <
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>> OED has 1959 for "Wife Swapping" (sub entry under "wife")
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>> _Janesville [WI] Gazette_ 4 Dec 1869 p 1 col 5
>> "Two couples were arraigned and found guilty in the Lawrence, Mass.,
>> court last week, for husband and wife swapping."
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>> Statesville NC _Landmark_ 2 Apr 1886 col 6
>> "In the South statistics show that not more than one divorce occurs in
>> 100 marriages and that wife swapping is almost unknown."
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