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Investigative journalist Terry Gould's best-selling book The Lifestyle: A Look at the Erotic Rites of Swingers was profiled on a special edition of 48 Hours, "It's Just Sex" (Monday, May 22). The lead segment of the show examines the growth of spouse-sharing and open eroticism among middle class couples and the rules of their subculture, which millions now call "the lifestyle." Gould takes the 48 Hours team on a tour of a Chicago swing club and discusses the evidence which suggests that swinging has roots that go back thousands of years and that it serves a variety of social and biological purposes. The legal issues raised by recent raids of swing clubs in Florida, which resulted in the arrest of fifty people and the suspension of two high school teachers from their jobs, are also explored.