Episode 1839 • • 25:42 - 29:36
1839: Feces Thesis
History of Plato's Retreat and 1970s Sexual Revolution
A discussion of 1970s "wild parties" highlights Plato's Retreat, a notorious swingers club in New York City that became a symbol of the sexual revolution. Writer Buck Henry famously documented the club's activities for Playboy magazine. The era of organized public orgies largely ended in the mid-1980s due to the onset of the AIDS epidemic.