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  Wife Swap on WCHS-TV8
It is a reality show unlike any other, where the battlegrounds are the kitchens and living rooms, child-rearing is a subject of intense and heated debate, and the outcome isn't a cash prize, but a couple's opportunity to re-discover why they love each other and decided to marry in the first place.
She swaps with a blue collar woman who wakes up every morning at 5:30 a.m., to work as a wood cutter and a school bus driver.
"'Wife Swap' is fascinating for what it reveals about the different ways people live their lives," said the best-selling Mail on Sunday.
wchs8.com /abc/wifeswap   (706 words)

  
  The new wife-swapping craze. - By Dahlia Lithwick - Slate Magazine
While appearing to be throwbacks to pre-feminist notions of domestic hierarchies—both shows feature a wife and mom switching place with another for a few days (and both assume that fathers' jobs are too important to fuss with)—they are, instead, the curious outgrowth of the post-feminist dilemma.
Wife Swap wisely requires the wives to live according to their new family's rules for the first week before being allowed to impose their own house rules in the second.
Steve's failure to learn anything from the swap stands in stark contrast to Brad's realization that he treated Lynn like a doormat, to Lynn's realization that she allowed herself to be treated like a doormat, and to Jodi's realization that her kids aren't short houseplants.
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 Mate Swapping : Fool Moon
I kept it clear as to who was going to be with who's wife, and where they were going to be.
A man approached my friends cousin and said "My wife and I would like you to have sex with her while I watch from outside." My friend watched with him (half out of interest but half to make sure that the man didn't pull anything and that his cousin would be okay).
During the "entertainment" the man told him that he liked to see how other people please his wife so he can learn new things and once or twice remarked to my friend on something his cousin was trying that he hadn't thought of.
foolmoon.com /showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/117464   (964 words)

  
 Wife Swap & Trading Spouses Two Shows, Four Wives, Lots of Cheese - Associated Content
Whether it's called Wife Swap or Trading Spouses, a reality show about two moms taking over each other's families for a week is bound to have some conflict.
The networks get two wives so diametrically opposite that fighting and feuding are guaranteed to ensue, first, during the week when the wife must play by the “house rules” and then, during the week when the wife makes the rules the husband and kids must keep.
Wife Swap is the Jerry Springer to Trading Spouse's Oprah.
www.associatedcontent.com /article/19016/wife_swap_trading_spouses_two_shows.html   (773 words)

  
 Wife swapping :: Sexy horny wives swap fun, sharing and swapping couples
Wife sharing takes its roots from 1940s when it was practice by US air force pilots and their wives.
Pushing your partner into swinging is not a good idea as wife swap fun deals much with emotions and both partners must feel relaxed and comfortable to make their sexual experience with another couple successful.
However if a couple has strong relationships before trying wife swapping this experience is likely to enhance their relationships and make the people closer to each other.
www.letsmeetup.com /wife-swapping.htm   (0 words)

  
 ABC.com: Live From L.A.
At the end of every episode of Wife Swap the producers check back in with the two families to see if they've changed or integrated any lessons learned from the swap into their regular lives.
When it works, that's what Wife Swap is all about: getting exposure to different lifestyles and appreciating the value of other approaches to life.
WIFE SWAP - The Colonel and the Glamazon
blogs.abc.com /livefromla/wife_swap/index.html   (5969 words)

  
 Wife Swap on ABC - Wife Swap Spoilers, Episode Guides, Message Board | TVGuide.com
Women swap husbands, kids and homes for 10 days to gauge the effect of changes on both families and the lessons learned.
ABC came in second for the night with the return of Wife Swap and back-to-back episodes of Supernanny.
I like the show, I don't like how the wife follows the rules, but most of the time when she is changing rules, she gets a lot of flack from the family.
www.tvguide.com /tvshows/wife-swap/191895   (1061 words)

  
 Wife Swap: Watch Online | Episodes | Cast | Photos | Videos - Fancast
A woman dedicated to raising pigs swaps lives with an artistic belly dancer who lives a life of glamour.
A perfectionist wife who insists on everything in its place trades places with the wife of a bounty hunter who feeds her family takeout tacos and waits on her husband and children.
Wife Swap and Supernanny were both tagged with 'Candid Reality Show [TV]'.
www.fancast.com /tv/Wife-Swap/9583/main   (221 words)

  
 Wife Swap - TV Wiki
Each wife leaves a house manual which explains their role in the family and the duties they hold.
During the first week of the swap, they attempt to keep up with the demands set by their new lifestyle, which usually includes a greatly increased (for one, decreased for the other) level of housework.
During the second week, the roles are somewhat reversed with the family having to abide by the rules set by the new wife.
tv.wikia.com /wiki/Wife_Swap   (257 words)

  
 Is wife swapping okay?
The Bible tells us that a husband and wife are to remain faithful to each other.
Wife swapping is a sinful and adulterous practice forbidden in scripture.
In addition, wife swapping breaks the covenant of marriage, shows the wife that she is not valued and respected enough to be guarded by her husband, and, of course, opens both spouses up to sexually transmitted diseases.
www.carm.org /questions/sex_wife_swapping.htm   (0 words)

  
 Listings - WIFE SWAP on ABC | TheFutonCritic.com
This week in Meeks/Hoover, a religious, conservative mom who shuns alcohol and is raising her three daughters to be proper and modest swaps lives with a punk rock mom who believes freedom of expression and partying are most important in life, on Wife Swap, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12 (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.
In the second week of the swap, when the wives change the rules and turn the tables, Kristen bans all alcohol from the house, sending the kegorator off on a tow truck and bringing her old-fashioned values of family time and religion back into the house.
Wife Swap is broadcast with Spanish subtitles via secondary closed captioning.
www.thefutoncritic.com /listings.aspx?id=20070129abc06   (1095 words)

  
 Wife Swapping Stories 2
So on his wedding day it was no surprise that we were standing on the altar watching his wife-to-be walk down the aisle that I leaned over and whispered that some day I wanted to have sex with her.
Of course the women were listening and laughing but all of a sudden John told his wife Cassie to kiss me and I told my wife to do the same.
It was even better to hear my wife coming from John, and feeling the same with his wife squirming and squealing under me. It was the hottest thing I have ever done.
www.homerf.org /Wife_Swapping_Stories_2.html   (0 words)

  
 Count Chocula & Wife Swapping | MetaFilter
But for me, the front runners are Count Chocula and Frankenberry's Monsters Go Disco and this outrageous 1971 sex record, Wife Swapping Swingers Party.
Wow, that Wife Swappers record is way better than the descriptive video for the blind pornos I've been listening to!
Wife Swapping Swinger's Orgy Porgy Party is fucking terrible and subsequently one of the funniest things I've ever heard.
www.metafilter.com /mefi/54755   (503 words)

  
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On the other hand mate swapping would not be a big deal for people who have not evolved enough to know what real love is. To them it is sex, not lovemaking, to them it is nothing more than a game.
I agree that mate swapping or "swinging" is utterly digusting.
Mate swapping, this is just a "decent" excuse for a married couple to have sex with other people.
foolmoon.com /printthread.php/Cat/0/Board/UBB25/main/117464/type/thread   (6002 words)

  
 More Than Donuts: WIFE SWAP
The swaps are often between two polar opposites - a religious, conservative, stay at home wife swaps with a tattooed, green haired punk wife.
Swap me out for a week and replace me with a poised wife with several external hard drives that never loses a thing.
But I think swapping would be an extreme measure to take -- you could end up with some taxidermist who lives on Moose meat and uses a composting toilet or something.
morethandonuts.blogspot.com /2006/09/wife-swap.html   (881 words)

  
 Wife Swap Contacts UK Wive Swapping Couples Swop Site
Wife Swapping, or swinging as it now more commonly referred to, has grown over recent years to a point where approximately 1 in 10 UK couples is actively involved in swapping partner and wives at clubs and private wife swapping parties for an evening of fun.
A lot of this is due to the ever growing number of programs on the television about swinging and the lifestyle in general, although one program on it's own has increased the number of people looking to 'wife swap', and that is the channel 4 program by the same name.
But on top of the great free wife swapping adverts, you will also find dogging information and details of UK wife swapping clubs and reviews as well as articles and stories written about the activities of real wife swaps members.
www.wife-swap.co.uk   (263 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Wife Swap wins US prime-time slot
Wife Swap was a word-of-mouth hit after its UK launch in January 2003, becoming Channel 4's second biggest hit last year - beaten only by the Big Brother 4 final.
One of the participants in the US series is a Manhattan millionairess who swaps wife a woodsman's wife from New Jersey, he said.
Expectations are high for Wife Swap in the US, where it will be broadcast directly after The Batchelor, ABC's highest rating returning show.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/3732025.stm   (347 words)

  
 Wife Swap - The F-Word
Whether or not the twelve couples who agreed to swap partners for two weeks, displaying their lifestyles for the scrutiny of the nation, are really representative of the way most couples still operate, most of the husbands certainly came out looking like stubborn, domineering idiots.
Instead, Wife Swap managed to pitch the women against each other so successfully that each episode ended with the poor confused husbands looking on in wide-eyed innocence as their wives laid into each other, attacking each other’s lifestyle choices and angrily defending their own.
Natasha Forrest is available for wife swaps for a small fee, providing she doesn’t have to get up at 5am to do the ironing.
www.thefword.org.uk /reviews/2003/02/wife_swap   (830 words)

  
 Wife Swap - TV.com
They agree to follow a manual written by the departing wife that sets out the rules of their new household — how they parent, shop, do the house work, manage their budgets and their social life.
Wife Swap currently airs everywhere from France to Australia and Germany to New Zealand.
A vegetarian artist mom (Coste), who puts her own needs over her children's needs, swaps lives with an omnivorous motocross mom (Ives), who feels that her children and husband are number one in her life.
www.tv.com /wife-swap/show/27180/summary.html   (719 words)

  
 "Wife Swap" (2004)
In 2006 on the American version, a new twist was added whereby the wife can bring in someone to help her (a family member, a friend) to help on one day of the swap.
Wife Swap was not something I was ever going to watch.
The follow up is terrific, it is so uplifting and encouraging to see people's lives get better once they learn to appreciate what they have, and change what is wrong in their lives.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0411040   (413 words)

  
 Keep to the Code - The Official Fan site of Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean Movies!
This made things interesting when they were confronted by a "swap wife" who loudly and proudly proclaimed that she would censor their reading matter.
My daughter was pushed to the edge of her patience by the prissy swap mom who tried to make Millie conform to an ideal that goes against everything Millie believes in.
When you watch the season premiere of Wife Swap on September 18th at 8 pm, you will see a family of modern pirates that don't just dress up and talk like pirates on International Talk Like a Pirate Day, but a family that lives with the modern ideals of pirattitude.
www.keeptothecode.com /2006/09/pirates-invade-abc-televisions-wife.html   (1711 words)

  
 Wife Swap Stacks the Shelf Against Homeschoolers - Associated Content
Meanwhile, the other family seems a lot closer to mainstream of daily life, as they seem to choose families that are generally a bit more driven in one way or another than normal families.
In the second family, the wife was the main breadwinner and the husband was starting a tech company.
I would love to see Wife Swap turn the table in the other direction.
www.associatedcontent.com /article/55216/wife_swap_stacks_the_shelf_against.html   (804 words)

  
 'Wife Swap': A Welcome Change (washingtonpost.com)
"Wife Swap" may already be a hit, and its tawdry title couldn't have hurt.
What "Wife Swap" does earn is your interest, and quickly, and not because it's anywhere near as sleazy as the title would make it sound.
Based on this initial encounter, "Wife Swap" is promisingly sly and serious, funny and flabbergasting.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A58503-2004Sep28.html   (1264 words)

  
 Wife Swap - BuddyTV, the best TV fan community
-Reality Wife Swap on ABC is a reality show that focuses on the current state of the American family.
Juxtaposing different parenting styles, Wife Swap takes two families from different walks of life and trades each family's wife for the other.
Wife Swap on ABC is a reality show that focuses on the current state of the American family.
www.buddytv.com /wife-swap.aspx   (548 words)

  
 The New York Times > Arts > Television > TV Review | 'Wife Swap': The Latest Reality Show Twist: Take My ...
"Wife Swap," which begins tonight, is not as weepy, but it, too, pulls at the heartstrings, tacking a life lesson onto every cultural collision.
Most likely, however, it suggests that viewers have gotten a bit bored by existing formulas, from "The Bachelor" to "Survivor." The premise of "Wife Swap" is still new enough to surprise viewers - even if Fox's copycat version, "Trading Spouses," went on the air first.
"Wife Swap" is easier on the eye and the conscience.
www.nytimes.com /2004/09/29/arts/television/29stan.html?ex=1254196800&en=c7e35135ec5519de&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland   (852 words)

  
 Wife Swap
Her temporary replacement was a country wife who chops wood for six hours, drives a school bus and does all the household cooking and cleaning.
Wife Swap subtly displays the value of responsibility, hard work, rules, partnership in marriage, forgiveness and appreciation.
One Wife Swap participant said, “They wanted an entertaining show, most of it at my expense.” Welcome to the world of reality TV.
www.pluggedinonline.com /tv/television/a0002011.cfm   (506 words)

  
 FOXNews.com - Man Sues After Reality TV Gay 'Wife Swap' - Celebrity Gossip | Entertainment News | Arts And Entertainment
An Oklahoma husband is suing the show for sending a gay man to live with him and his family as his half of the swap.
Jeffrey Bedford, who lives with his wife and kids outside Muskogee, assumed he was swapping wives with a heterosexual couple.
He also said "Wife Swap" producers refused to let him talk to his wife while the show was being taped.
www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,176244,00.html   (586 words)

  
 13abc.com: Local family on 'Wife Swap' 1/17/07
They swapped with a family from Michigan, a family, as the show goes, that's fairly opposite.
Husband Scott said, "I didn't believe it because she gets a lot of emails from strange people." But when a camera crew showed up, the Johnsons knew it was for real.
That hit home and so did the rest of the swap, which appeared to make both families appreciate what they have.
abclocal.go.com /wtvg/story?section=news/local&id=4943846   (194 words)

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