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3.0 out of 5 stars
Remember "Bob & Carol, Ted & Alice"?, September 14, 1999
This review is from: Proposition 31 (Paperback)
Two suburbanite couples who get involved in what used to be called "wife-swapping" back when that film came out? Rimmer offers a what-if secenario: what if the "straying" involved more than just "hot sex"? And what if each partner involved still loved his or her legitimate spouse as well? There are the usual variables involved. It's typical Rimmer for the quartet to decide that return to status quo ante might not necessarily be the right option, but he tends to gloss over the potential for a negative effect on the kids--each couple has two. Rimmer's body of work as a whole shows an overestimate of mankind's level of social evolution. All the ground gained along those lines during the period immediately before and after this book's original publication has since been lost right back and then some.
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