Product Details

• Actors: Swinging
• Directors: Alexander Institute
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Alexander Institute
• DVD Release Date: November 2, 2004
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000633QD
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #147,152 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

This timely and informative exploration into swinging will both enlighten and arouse you and your partner. Join Juli as she investigates all aspects of this alternative lifestyle with real like couples and professionals. Follow Ronnie & Charlene through highly erotic scenes as they encounter the steps that lead to swinging. This very explicit program is the perfect swinging guide for couples who are just curious as well as to those who have already experienced the lifestyle. Juli Ashton s Swinging from Fantasy to Reality discusses voyeurism and being watched learning to set the limits as a couple swapping and same room sex plus so much more!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

54 of 62 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT EROTIC GUIDE, February 4, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Loving Sex - Swinging: From Fantasy to Reality (DVD)

Full of unexpected twists and turns, this intriguing video will titillate you, inform you and send you out to play! Julie Ashton, an adult star of note, reports on exploring the joys of swinging with insightful questions and real sensitivity. She begins by taking her search to the street, speaking with a series of twenty-thirty something couples. One man confesses, as he smiles at his wife, "That's a fantasy of mine." His wife responds, "I fantasize but it's just something I talk about. I don't know if I'd really want to do that." Juli asks, "Do you think swinging is a better alternative than infidelity?" "Yes I do." He looks intently at his mate, "I think so, because I'm there watching her and I know everything that's going on. I get to do what I want and she gets to do what she wants. We're watching each other."
Both Anita Banker-Riskin and Dr. Michael Riskin are board-certified sex therapists. Discussion about swinging is interspersed between several explicit scenes with the primary couple featured throughout 'Swinging from Fantasy to Reality.' The timing of these discussions is set at key intervals of the primary couples' discovery of each other and their frontiers.
There is an easy transition into the fictional real life scenario of the primary couple visiting another couple's residence. Many delicious moments are shared in ways that show a progression of personal understanding and shared trust. Intriguing moments grip you with their unexpected tensions. For instance, in the scene where there are the two women are playing with one man, Juli Ashton (visiting as herself in the real life scenario) almost steals the show by repeatedly thrusting her breast into her lover's vagina. Inside the house the visiting couple see all of this taking place on the security camera. They become aroused and make love in the kitchen. Mutual orgasms were shared all round simultaneously by both men and all three women.
An uncontrived respect of privacy is maintained for a realistic time between the resident and visiting couples until the shower scene where the two women are having a shower (like they used to when they were children). At this time one of the men wanders into the bathroom and moments later is followed by the other man.
The moment becomes tension filled when couples swap and the visiting male is overwhelmed by the sound and sight of his wife with another man making her feel good. He leaves and is followed immediately by his wife. After a private and very frank exchange of feelings between them this issue is very appropriately addressed by another session with Doctor Michael Riskin and Anita Banker-Riskin. Anita Banker-Riskin clearly states that, "You can set your own ground rules. You can say no to anybody. The number one priority is always the couple, the marriage." It is suggested that they make love in the presence of the other couple without swapping. Dr. Riskin comments, "many people fantasize about having new, different, and exciting adventures in their relationships and this is a way of acting upon it. It's not a substitute for love in your primary relationship, that's number one and that's what really needs to be honored. Commitment and communication are key." Anita Banker-Riskin adds, "We believe being married is one of the hardest things to do. We believe in commitment, respect and trust." Concluding is a Q & A period with Juli Ashton, Dr. Michael Riskin, and Anita Banker-Riskin regarding the controversial issues of swinging, jealousy, marriage and commitment.
In Swinging from Fantasy to Reality, you'll find the plot and continuity to be consistent and realistic. The settings are diverse, utilizing both interior and exterior scenarios. The numerous sexually explicit scenes are ripe with real life textures and so stimulating in quantity and quality that one will want to watch this video over and over again. You may wish to add this selection to your Millennium wish list of things I'd like to think about trying before I get too old! Swinging from Fantasy to Reality will provide guidance as you and your partner discover your erotic limits by having your senses inspired with sexually appetizing real life scenarios.

Regina Woods
Editor-in-Chief
Eros - The Erotic Entertainment Magazine

36 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Aweful, March 9, 2005

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BCBC - See all my reviews

This review is from: Loving Sex - Swinging: From Fantasy to Reality (DVD)

This DVD is hardly "informative". Basically, it is a porno - with really bad acting. After the first 5 minutes of each chapter, I shut it off. For those who are contemplating the lifestyle, this movie is NOT for you. There is probably one good tip in the video about setting limits. Even the "therapists" seem scripted. All in all, don't waste your money and you'd get better information online.

My advice is to meet people either on swinger sites or at clubs and become friends first. If you're comfortable, soft swing at first, heavy stuff MUCH later. No rush. If you wish to "fix" your marriage with swinging - forget it-it'll ruin it. The lifestyle must be mutually agreed upon by both partners. There you go folks, again, don't waste your money on hollywood trash.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars More than just swinging, September 2, 2007

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Paul Bray - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Loving Sex - Swinging: From Fantasy to Reality (DVD)

"Swinging: From Fantasy to Reality" is a highly erotic educational film produced by the Alexander Institute. The DVD follows a couple as they enjoy pushing the boundaries of their sexual lives. The couple is in marriage counseling where they talk with their therapists about the pleasure and sometimes discomfort of their adventures. This venue provides an interesting alternative to other "educational" DVD that fail to present a negative side to experimentation. Despite the title, only part of the DVD is devoted to the couples' swinging fantasy. The erotic scenes are explicit and well photographed. We follow the couple as they make love in rooms other than their bedroom, experiment with outdoor sex with erotic scenes of them purposely making love knowing that a man is watching from the bushes. Yes, and finally the couple connects with another couple in an attempt to fulfill a swinging fantasy. Here the two couples make love to their own marriage partners together in the same room. In the final scenes the couple declines the offer of making love with the other couple. The sex scenes in this DVD and their very unusual settings are highly erotic.

The DVD is very good, and teaches us that the journey of pushing sexual boundaries pays benefits by spicing up our primary relationship. However, I think it also teaches that it is wise to enjoy the pleasure from the journey rather than locking on a certain fantasy such as swinging. Swinging, like any fantasy can sometimes become more uncomfortable than fun when played out, and as we have learned, many times it simply does not happen.