Sunday People

SWING OUT MISTER

Sex parties are back... but there’s no touching (unless lover’s in your social bubble) TOP ALFRISKY SPOT..

- By Laurie Stone and Alan Selby

GET set for Britain’s first socially distanced swingers’ party.

The end-of-lockdown bash for 50 guests will be held by millionair­e businessma­n Richard Stanley and his lover, who works for the NHS.

Richard, 72, hit the headlines when a reveller died in his pool at a James Bondthemed orgy at his £5million mansion five years ago.

Now he is planning to come back from lockdown with a bang – at a bash he bills as “Covid 19-compatible”.

Richard told the Sunday People: “It will be a voyeurs and monogamist­s alfresco sex party. I have to follow guidelines to the letter as Janet is a practice nurse. If we get the go-ahead it’s going to be an amazing night.”

Richard met partner Janet Harrison, 62, at one of his legendary parties.

They have featured together on TV documentar­ies about the events at their £5.2million home in Radlett, Herts.

After parties were axed by Covid-19, Richard says their regulars are gagging to get back into the action on July 25.

And he says amorous couples will even be able to get down to it in their new stream set in more than ten acres, for safe distancing – even if rules mean couples cannot mix and match.

He said: “So as long as Boris Johnson gives the green light, Radlett parties are back on. If indoor parties are still banned we’ll just close the house. Let’s hope for a warm evening with few mosquitos.”

Richard and Janet run “the UK’S best establishe­d and popular swinging house party venue”, which has featured on Channel 4 and Channel 5.

More than 2,000 clients – including entreprene­urs, actors and judges – pay £50 to join the antics in their pool and loft dungeon.

They even have a hog roast on the go all evening – subject to Covid-19 rules around communal meals and buffets.

Five years ago, the parties drew controvers­y after a guest drowned in their pool.

Richard dived in to try to save dad-of-three Edmund Echukwu, 35, and gave CPR but could not save him. A coroner ruled that the death was an accident.

Despite the spotlight that fell on them, Richard insisted: “We’re not doing anything we shouldn’t be.

“Janet and I are churchgoer­s and don’t do anything we’re ashamed of.

“Swinging is recreation­al sex, legitimate­ly exercised. No one wants to eat in the same restaurant every night of their lives and the same goes for sex.”

While Richard will usually partner up with two different women during his parties, Janet gets less involved.

She said: “I help host. It’s rare if I get involved – I like the social side.”

NORFOLK women are most likely to be up for some nookie outdoors.

A third of women in the county boast they have romped alfresco – while Londoners are least likely with just one in 20 having done it.

And men are most likely to bonk in the open air in Wales, the study by sex toy firm Tenga found.

Outdoors sex with strangers is also rife in Norfolk with one website listing 48 locations for hook-ups. In 2018, Norfolk Constabula­ry had to produce a plan for policing what it calls PSES – public sex environmen­ts.

Tenga’s Alix Fox said: “While scores of us are stuck indoors, it’s no surprise many find themselves turning to sexual fantasies as a means of escapism. A huge proportion of sexual fantasies are surprising­ly down to earth.”

 ??  ?? BUFFET IN THE BUFF: Richard and party spread
SAFE SEX: Richard and Janet at home
BUFFET IN THE BUFF: Richard and party spread SAFE SEX: Richard and Janet at home

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