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Talk:Group sex/Archive 1

"In one notable exception, some regard a case with two men and three women with the three foci of activity being the first man and one of the women, the second man and another woman and the third woman having sex either with one of the man-woman pairs, the other pair, or with both women, or, most commonly, rapidly cycling through all three of them, to be a special case which is not an orgy but rather a 3-on-2, cyclic ménage-à-trois, horseshoe orgy, or other terms which vary widely with locale and group"

Wow, that has to be the worst run-on sentence I've read in all of my years on Wikipedia...

I'd also like to add that the mention of the prevalence of fantasies of bestiality here seems unjustified. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.206.231.119 (talk) 00:23, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a source for the limitation to "consensual" in the change to the intro "Group sex is consensual sexual behavior involving more than two participants. Forcible group sexual behaviour is termed gang rape"? Both sentences seem to be wrong to me. Group sex need not be consensual, and gang rape is usually taken to mean several agents successively having non-consensual sex serially with one victim, which is not the only form of non-consensual sex involving more than two people. But anyway, citations needed here. Kenilworth Terrace (talk) 17:02, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Locker, Sari (2005). The Complete Idiot's Guide to Amazing Sex. Alpha Books. p. 288. ISBN 1592573274.
• Van Hasselt, Vincent B. (1988). Handbook of family violence. Birkhäuser. p. 209. ISBN 030642648X.
• Swift, Carolyn F. (1995). Sexual assault and abuse: sociocultural context of prevention. The prevention in human services series. Routledge. p. 121. ISBN 1560247622.

Kenilworth Terrace (talk) 19:11, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"Orgy" is an embarrassing Clampettesque term for sex between more than 2 people, the neutral, objective designation of the semantic content. Sex party should just be deleted or worked up in a different sense, currently this is all in conflict with Group Sex to which the other two should have any unique content merged and then become redirects to it. 72.228.177.92 (talk) 04:48, 29 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

NON-CONCUR: There is nothing odd with the term orgy, and should not be dismissed simply because someone dislikes the cultural baggage it has accrued. The term is widely used by those who actually engage in orgies and is advertised and promoted in media, writings, advertisements and even names for rooms at swinger clubs, i.e. Orgy Den. For many people the difference between an orgy and group sex is significant. The former retains some of its cultural baggage in meaning and is often used for sex with more than 2 people that is less inhibited, less discriminate, some anonymity, more wild, possibly bisexual, quite raucous, and maybe quite drunk. Whereas Group Sex could simply be a polyamorous relationship or a regular Saturday night at someone's home with friends and couples they've fucked for years. JVB, 25 April 2012