Originally Posted by MandoMan (Post 2420808)

In my opinion, there is far more drinking in The Villages than sex. I’m aware of two or three dozen swinging couples in The Villages. No, they aren’t usually interested in including a single guy. One of the difficulties is that people may come here as active swingers with a couple happy decades of doing that, but age catches up with them. By around seventy both the women and the men are less exciting to look at. With a swinging couple, both people have to be interested in getting together with another couple. That cuts the likelihood of a meeting of the, um, minds in half. Year be year this loss of interest grows. Meeting a couple for a swinging episode or hosting a swinging party gradually comes to seem like more trouble than it’s worth. Sometimes as they age, swinging couples get together to be around other people like themselves, yet they just eat and drink and chat without playing. There are of course variants. I knew a man who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for inventing a way to get plastic to carry electrical current, making possible all of our iPhones and iPads. At 79, he was still active, though the frequency had decreased. He still enjoyed the parties.

However, drinking pretty much maintains its appeal.

Originally Posted by Pugchief (Post 2420581)

I have yet to see any examples of extreme drunkenness nor encountered the myriad of swingers I was promised before coming here. I'm sure some exist but I'm also sure a lot of it is urban legend.

Or maybe I'm just hanging out at the wrong places.

It seems like the majority of unruly drunks highlighted in "the newspaper that shall not be named" are adult children living with their parents and/or residents of the areas just outside of TV.

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC (Post 2420992)

With all the people here only 2-3 dozen swinging couples?

How many threesomes with two females? Inquiring minds want to know.

Originally Posted by RICH1 (Post 2420515)

Lately I have been traveling all over the world on Cruise Ships. Lately the topic has been, " Is the Drunkenness that bad in The Villages" ?
Our response is, "'The sex is Worse". What's your opinion?

Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive (Post 2420551)

As Sir Winston Churchill once so famously said "a lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can get its pants on."

A person who drank a lot before retirement is probably going to drink a lot following retirement too, but I doubt the level of "drunkenness" is any higher in TV than an any other place of like size. But going back to Sir Winston's comment...reading stories about excessive imbibing (or wanton sex) is going to draw one heck of a lot more readers and listeners than articles about local churches filling shoeboxes for children's Christmas every year, or "Honey do" programs where parish members make themselves available, free of charge, to do tasks that fellow Villagers can no longer do on their own, or neighborhood co-operative pet-sitters or house-watchers, or efforts in conjunction with the Humane Society, etc.; all and a whole lot more of which take place in The Villages.

But, people enjoy reading about sleaze, so...

Originally Posted by RICH1 (Post 2421113)

Blue chew , if you are trying to satisfy two females..

Originally Posted by Velvet (Post 2421399)

I’ve come across this perception the OP mentions, myself. The doctor who was fired and started this rumor should be … So maybe it’s going on somewhere but my uncle and aunt in 32 years of living in TV never saw it or my parents for the 10 years they were here, or myself in the last 7 years never saw it. I’m not saying we live in a monastery - I’m sure we have less moral individuals here too - but this drop of poison has contaminated an ocean.

Originally Posted by Smalley (Post 2421361)

Alcohol is toxic and carcinogenic. Sorry, those are the medical facts. Everyone who drinks should start reducing their alcohol consumption. Keep it as low as possible or at zero. It's wonderful to be sober!!!!

Originally Posted by FloridaGuy66 (Post 2421414)

Congrats on being sober, but I enjoy alcohol and choose to spend my time with others that enjoy wine, bourbon and beer.

“Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.” —Mark Twain