Swinging Wives is a West German sexploitation movie made in the Schoolgirl Report mold. It purports to be an expose about marriage and infidelity that is supposedly taken from “real” case studies of actual couples. Sprinkled in between are man on the street interviews. It’s all just an excuse to show some T & A.
You know a movie is on the right track when it features a housewife doing nude housework including vacuuming, ironing, and washing the dishes during opening credits.
The first segment is about a couple who are full of passion on their wedding night, but the spark quickly runs out. Next, we have an interview with a door-to-door masseur who caters to the needs of his married female clientele. Then, a frustrated housewife defies her husband and visits a swingers’ party next door. That’s followed by a bridge club who surprises a delivery man by playing their game in the nude. A teenage girl learns her mother is having an affair and sets out to seduce her mom’s suitor in the next vignette. Afterwards, a wife tries to take her own life after having an affair with her husband’s best friend. We then learn a mailman’s guide to servicing the lonely wives on his route. Next, a woman puts the moves on her gynecologist when he drops in for a house call. Then, there’s a segment on a door-to-door smut peddler who gets it on with a married client. That’s followed by a story about a bored housewife who takes to turning tricks to make a little money on the side and predictably winds having her husband as a client. Finally, we return to our first couple to check on their progress.
Most of these kinds of movies have an episodic nature, which can yield uneven results. The good news about Swinging Wives is that the episodes are all rather entertaining. The best segments manage to blend humor into the mix. In fact, the movie sort of gets better as it goes along, mostly because the sequences in the second half feature wives who seem to be having fun while they are swinging.
The dubbed dialogue contains some real howlers too. My favorite line comes when a swinger sees a sexy housewife and quips to his friend, “That’s real humping material right there!”
AKA: The New Hot Report: What Men Don’t Think is Possible.
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