KNOW

YOUR

BARTENDER

by

Robert Charles Jemison

This article is an outgrowth of ten years observation in a metropolitan area now comprising some 800,000 people, localized in a middle class section served by a number of liquor outlets centering in an area of some 25,000 people, a region noted for dismal climate, a slow economy and a population to match.

For some years prior to coming into this region I had been doing public social drinking without any trouble in or around a bar. Never was I refused a drink or ejected from a public drinking place. Perhaps this area is not a typical one. That can best be judged by the reader.

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ALLEY CATS AND SQUARES

This is the first region in which I have lived where people whom I have met through normal business, professional and social channels have invited me to become part of a wifeswapping ring. This invitation was extended despite the fact that I am presently single. This ring was engaged in group sex practices exhibiting a variety of sexual activity, excluding the sadistic, which were photographed with a "polaroid" type

camera.

I did not accept the invitation to join the group, though friendship did

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