a club.
She showed up with a girlfriend named Andie. "Fortunately,"
said Tad, "Andie turned out to be out of her mind." She'd just gotten off a plane from Italy and was swanning around in a fox fur coat. After consuming E-tabs, the three went back to Tad's loft, drank champagne, smashed the glasses on the floor, groped. The twenty year old fell asleep, and Tad and Andie went at it, with the twenty year old next to them on the bed.
Peter jumped back in. "It's more experiences, every day, therefore you have to do more and constantly faster! And more!" he said. "It's going beyond carrying capacity, pushing our luck, inventing new niches, expanding . . . "
"It's like someone walking by with a tray of cookies and you take a couple off the tray," said Garrick, thirty, a guitarist with a downtown band.
Tad started to agree with Peter. "It's the whole idea of more," said Tad. "It's four breasts, not two."
Thankfully, Sam, an investment banker, arrived. Sam, forty-one, was the type of guy who was always saying he wanted to get married but often "forgot" to call back the women he was dating. So he was still single. Sam said he had had threesomes.
"Why did you do it?" we asked.
Sam shrugged. "It's variety. You get tired of being around anyone after a while."
Sam said there are three basic situations that lead to threesomes.
One: The guy has been secretly lobbying for a long time to get his girlfriend into bed with another woman. The reason could be that he's bored, or he secretly wants to sleep with her friend.
Two: The girlfriend secretly wants to sleep with another woman, and gets her boyfriend to go along to make it easier for her to deal with it.
Three: Two women are into each other and plot to get the guy into bed.
Sam said he'd had a girlfriend, Libby, for about six months, and he talked himself into believing that she really wanted to have sex with her best friend, Amanda. Of course, the truth, which he now admits, is that he wanted to have sex with Amanda.
Under pressure, Libby finally agreed to engineer the evening.
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told the two women to take their clothes off. And then? "I was a complete failure," said Sam. While Libby remained on the couch, drinking wine, Sam took Amanda to bed. "I was totally into her.
The problem is, you usually end up preferring one woman over the other, and then the other one gets left out," he said. Finally, Libby came over to the bed. "I guess they wanted me to tell them what to do, to take control of the situation. But I was so into Amanda, I couldn't do it," Sam said. Libby never got over it. Two months later, Sam and Libby broke up. Libby and Amanda didn't talk for a while.
Sam admitted that he knew there could be "consequences" from the threesome, but "you go ahead, anyway, because you're a guy."
Rule number one of threesomes: "Never, ever do it with your girlfriend," said Garrick. "It's always a disaster."
Rule number two: "You can't plan it. Something always goes wrong," said Simon, who said he had been involved in six or seven threesomes. "It has to be spontaneous."
Before we got to rule number three, the buzzer rang. Jim, a twenty-one-year-old magician, and Ian, a twenty-five-year-old television producer, arrived. Jim announced that he had been involved in a threesome the week before. "You get to tell your friends afterwards," he said.
"It was kind of cheesy," he said, "because the three of us had just seen the movie Threesome."
But before he could continue, the buzzer rang again. We all looked at each other. "Who's that?" All of the men who were supposed to be there had already arrived.
Peter looked up from his painting. "It's another woman," he said calmly.
I went upstairs to open the door. It was another woman, all right.
We stared at each other in mutual surprise. "What are you doing here?" she asked.
"I was about to ask you the
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