Going Undercover to Bust Swingers in Connecticut – Why?
You can read the story at The Hartford Currant or The Journal Inquirer. They just keep arresting more people for this. So, here’s the story.

There was a swinger’s party at a hotel in early November. Police officers went undercover to try and bust these people having sex in public. According to the police the swingers were having sex in the bar, while it was open to the public, and lobby of the hotel. According to the party goers it was a private party and any sex involved happened in hotel rooms not the bar and the lobby.

My first question is – Why would you need to go undercover to bust people having sex in public? None of the news stories I have read raise that question, but it seems like the most obvious one to me.

One of the attorneys said, “The police officers that attended had to go through at least four, possibly five steps to attend.” That is a lot of work to gain access to a supposedly public view of people having sex.

My second question is – How do they justify using tax dollars for this kind of operation? Even if they were having sex in a situation that could be technically classified as public, does anyone really care? Does anyone really care about “public” sex that is that hard to gain access to?

They arrested the owner and manager of the hotel, the permit holder of the bar. That part kind of made sense at first, knowing that in some places it is illegal to mix visible genitals with the sale of alcohol. That doesn’t explain the charges, though. They were charged with being accessories to obscenity and public indecency.

Overall, none of it really makes sense. Why are they dragging this out for so long and continuing to arrest people? Why go to trouble of conducting an undercover operation involving police and liquor control agents for something like this? It sounds like someone’s personal crusade or vendetta to me.