MONDAY: Last episode! Wow, what a fantastic experience. The crew and cast are all exhausted, but everyone is soldiering though to the finale. The newbie couple comes in and gets introduced. Hot couple from CT. They are both body builders, and so had instant chemistry with Garren in particular. We talk for awhile and get to know them, then head inside for an icebreaker which has us stripping off some clothes and putting people in various sexy poses. Lots of flirting, especially with Garren and Megan, you can tell they are nervous but getting comfortable and having a great time. This was fun and it got people touching, intertwined and heated up. Nicoleta helped ignite the newbies once the game was over, and we went downstairs into the playroom.

Ah, Beth and Gerrit. The last couple to come through the Swing doors were also, in many ways, the most adventurous. They may have looked intimidating—and had muscles in places where most of us don’t even realize muscles can grow—but they both struck me as actually quite sweet and shy. They’d each been married before, neither drank anymore, and they both seemed thrilled to have finally found the one they’d been seeking their whole lives—not to mention be on their way to fulfilling fantasies they’d been nurturing a long time. From spotting each other across a convention floor—during, no surprise there, a bodybuilding convention—to experiencing an “afternoon delight” in the Swing house, Beth and Gerrit definitely seemed to be enjoying the ride.

In many ways, Michael and Jessica just seemed like your regular, everyday couple: down-to-earth and comfortable with one another, they were sweet, gracious and just excited to be part of the great swinging experiment going on in the mansion. But in other ways, there wasn’t anything regular about them at all. I mean, what man repeatedly and convincingly announces that the only woman he ever fantasizes about is the one on his arm? Okay, maybe there are some out there who do that (I could see, say, Michael, of Michael and Holli fame, also convincingly making such a claim – could it be a Michael thing.) But what guy seems as fulfilled as can be watching his girl have her fantasies come true? I say Jessica’s sitting in the catbird seat.