Swapping groups come in various shapes and sizes ranging from the quiet and refined three-way swap to a modern day replica of the authentic Orgy involving hundreds of persons in abandoned sexual activities.
Not every swap session is a three-way orgy. Nor is it as large as the Roman orgy. Most groups would be better described as ‘miniature orgies' consisting of perhaps six to fifteen members. The miniature orgy is always larger than the three-way swap but smaller than the authentic Roman bacchanalia.
Statistics prove that many married persons are inclined to commit adultery. In WIFE SWAPPERS author Roger Blake notes…
"By accepting the Kinsey figures that fully 26% of the married women in this country and an estimated 50% of the married men commit adultery during the course of their married lives, it is easy to see that the basis for wife-swapping exists among a tremendously large portion of the married population." (3)
Swapping seems to have become a popular and convenient method of committing adultery. Since most of the members are bisexual a limited amount of perversions and unusual sex practices may occasionally be indulged in. Even sexual activities which are most often considered 'normal' may be indulged in to an abnormal degree.
As Roger Blake notes in LOVE CLUBS, INC.,
"There are literally hundreds of social, friendship, lonely hearts, "unusual interests", "unique," and "Bizarre" pen-pal and correspondence clubs advertised in the daily newspapers and weekly or monthly tabloids the country over." (2)
Let us study the swapping activities of Jerry and Brenda Breedlove, who are both young and attractive residents of a well-to-do community in Santa Barbara, California. Brenda and Jerry meet regularly with other swappers in their large plushly decorated basement.
"Jerry and I both think variety is the spice of life…," Brenda notes, lifting vivacious blue eyes. Brenda softly strokes her tight nylons which reveal smooth tapered legs.
"Really-neither of us is suited to a quiet married life! Both of us are too HOT to settle for steady repetition with one partner! I don't brag about the fact that Jerry and I are swingers. But I've admitted to myself that I need more than one man to keep cool! I guess you might say that Jerry and I are pretty uninhibited when it comes to sex. We do some pretty wild things together!"
"We meet with other swingers through correspondence clubs…," Brenda blushed. "I get the HOTS just writing long sexy letters to different males and females all over the country. Jerry and I take revealing snap-shots of each other. We receive a lot of pictures too!"
"Some letters I receive from swingers really turn me on…," Brenda frowned. "I like the long HOT ones. I can get a good wet come if I masturbate! Men write me about how they like to screw a woman, how they love to eat ripe snatch, and how they love to rip their swollen cocks into a tight ass. I move my finger beneath my skirt. I never wear any panties. They just get in the way. I move my finger over my ripe love-button. I flip it back and forth like a nice hot tongue! The words begin getting to me! Guys mention sliding their cocks around in the wet sea of love and then eating their hot come out of some girl's box. Trash like that makes me hot. Sometimes I even lick, and suck my finger after I've finger-fucked myself."
"Our parties usually begin on a Friday night…," Brenda revealed. "After everyone gets transporting off from work they spend a lot of time transporting themselves to our place. But once our guests arrive we promise them a long relaxing week-end. Usually our bashes last until Sunday morning with everyone leaving just in time to get to work!"
"During the week I count the days until party-time. I sometimes close my eyes and count, visually count, our guests in erotic copulation. Jerry and I both love sex so much. We don't do many things that are considered wild or perverse. But sometimes I think we overdo what is called normal sex. Jerry and I throw some pretty wild bashes. We really got into one hell of a mess though when we got arrested in the act of banging with a minor! The police seized movies showing the adolescent girl intimately involved with adults. Jerry and I were told to consult a psychiatrist. So here we are."
"Tell me about the incidents leading to your arrest…?"
"Well…,"Brenda smiled. "Jerry and I write to a lot of swingers. My box is full of hot letters each day. We latched onto Vicki and her husband, Charlie, through the mail. Vicki is a young vivacious brunette with blue eyes that sizzle! Charlie is a middle-aged cat, handsome and athletic, with a mammoth sized penis. Vicki got to writing me about how their daughter had relations with Charles who was her step-father. Apparently their twelve year old kid, Patty, was pretty hot!"
"Jerry dug some of the nude photos they sent of Patty V…," Brenda said. "Patty was barely five foot tall. Patty has pale milky white flesh, dark brown hair that hangs freely over her shoulder, falling about her ripe breasts in a most enticing manner. In one of the snaps that Vicki sent us Patty was standing spread-legged with one hand caressing a ripe nipple! The other hand rested between her thighs. You could see the finger between those hairless pubic lips! That kid had the most abandoned smile you can imagine. It was spectacular. Jerry would sit in our living room nursing a fantastic hard-on as he read Patty's letters!"
"We ought to invite Vicki and Charles to a party…!" Jerry hinted. "Say about six of us together giving Patty a HOT thrill! I bet that kid could even turn you on-sugar. Vicki says she's marvelous eating a lignum or a yoni!"
"You mean-you'd stoop to laying a minor?"
"You bet I would…!," Jerry verified. "If her parents don't object… why should I…?"
"No reason… "
"Well…," Brenda continued, "we invited Vicki and Charlie. They were glad to come. Jerry talked to Patty over the phone. I thought the damn receiver would melt in his hand. When Jerry's ears turn crimson he's either worked-up or embarrassed. I knew that Jerry was just plain HOT. Patty proved to be even more passionate in person. She was well-developed for twelve. Patty's breasts were the size of ripe, full oranges. Her snatch was hairless. I later learned that Patty deliberately shaves her pubic tresses to present a youthful appearance!"
"Patty and my husband hit it off so well that I burned with envy…,"Brenda related. "We invited Laura and Duke Graves, Vicki and Charlie. With myself and Jerry it made seven of us. A nice intimate little group. We stripped down and stashed away a few mixed drinks while listening to party records. Patty slid right next to my hubby. Her small firm hand rested on Jerry's hairy thighs. Jerry couldn't keep from touching Patty. It was obvious both of them wanted to make a more intimate scene. Vicki and Charles proved very interesting. Both of them had been divorced once. Both desired variety in sex. So they decided to swap rather than divorce or run around on each other. Vicki told us all about how Patty got a 'crush' on her step-father and how their swapping involvements led them into sex with their own nubile daughter."
"I knew what it was coming down to…," Vicki affirmed, tossing back her dark auburn hair. "Everytime Charlie got around Patty he got an enormous hard-on. He'd get so excited spanking her buttocks that he'd have to stop! I knew Patty noticed this response. Because when she lay over her step-father's knee Patty Would always wiggle about over his crotch! Sometimes the way my husband would collapse and lean back against the chair I knew he had ejaculated! I didn't try to stop the romance. I'd rather my kid learn sex at home, from her step-father, than out in the bushes with some hippie!"
"How do you have sex at home…?," Brenda inquired.
"Menage-a-trois…," Vicki laughed. "Always the three of us in an intimate get-together. Sometimes when Charlie's on top of me pumping away Patty will go behind and part his buttocks. Patty will kiss those fleshy orbs and run her tongue into her step-father's ripe ass-hole. Patty really loves her step-father because she does some indecent things with him. Why that kid can suck Chuck's testicles for hours!"
"Hmmmm…," Jerry blushed, "I suggest we move this affair to the basement where we can loose!"
Our recreation room is fully equipped…," Brenda recounted. "Jerry spent over $2,000 down there. One room which measures 12x12 is nothing but wall to wall foam with soft sensual black vinyl covering it. It's easy to wipe clean after a fuck-out Cozy when you get six or seven people on it all coming at once!"
"Jerry led the party down the narrow stairs. Everyone looked surprised when they saw the movie camera and screen surrounded by over-stuffed couches."
"I think we ought to film this very special occasion…," Jerry blushed. "Duke-how about operating the movie camera? We ought to do something pretty spectacular to begin this reel. What do you want to do-Patty?"
"I'd love to eat your big beautiful dick," Patty hinted, inching forward. "It's sleeping so nicely now. I bet if I put my hot lips around it-it would jerk up and flop against your belly-button. What do you think big daddy?"
"It probably would-honey…," Jerry teased. "I fondled Patty's developing breasts. Why don't you put your soft lips around it and find out. For you it would jump like a jack-in-the-box."
"You thrill me… big daddy…," Patty panted, sliding her hand under the soft penis to caress the steaming testicles.
"Oh-baby!," Jerry raved.
"Hold on-daddy…!," Patty cooed. "Let's not waste that joy-juice in mid-air. Perhaps I can find a nice hot place for you to come."
"Patty bent down between my muscular legs…,"Jerry moaned. "First Patty raised her eyes upward to my aching penis. Then Patty guided it toward her mouth. She lashed out her hot little serpentine tongue aiming for the head of my joint. Patty's sensual lips parted as the head of my dick slid into her mouth!"
"Oh-baby!," Jerry gasped, gazing skyward. "Oh-beautiful baby-doll!"
"Ummmmm-daddy!," Patty sizzled.
"God-," Jerry gasped. "That child's fingers were moving over my testicle bag. She had me almost going out of my mind. She was gently pinching her sharp fingernails into my tender orbs. Her cheeks puckered in and out. Patty's hot lips moved down the pulsating length of my prong. I knew I would blast my wad at any moment… " Jerry recounted. "I gripped Patty's ears and drove my swollen organ into her tight little mouth. I began pumping like crazy… muttering passioned oaths… as I literally 'fucked' her jaws. Those lips grew hotter and tighter around my throbbing member. God-it felt as if she were blowing the sperm back into my balls!"
"Oh-honey-babe!," Jerry groaned. "You eat a mean joint. Now-slide your juicy little finger into my tight ass-hole. Move it-kid. I'm about to blow my wad!"
"Ummmm…!," Patty sighed. She caught a tremendous wad of sperm in her mouth.
"Oh-hon-ee-y…!," Jerry laughed, fondling firm young breasts. "Do you ever know how to blow a horn!"
"Instead of swallowing my load…," Jerry recollected, "Patty did a very strange thing. Slowly and sensuously Patty got to her feet, pressing her firm abdomen against my dwindling penis. Patty kept her lips tight together. Patty reached out to kiss me. I bent down, folding that firm young body in my arms in a steaming embrace. All of a sudden I felt my own milky substance flowing between my sensual lips. That kid was blowing my hot jizz into my mouth! When I had most of my load in my own mouth Patty began sucking it back into hers. Several creamy drops rolled down my cheeks. Duke zeroed in with the movie camera and recorded our intimate movements. Patty sucked the goo and then she passed it back to me. We became involved in a lengthy sperm-kiss that took up a hell of a lot of film. Everyone was so hot watching Patty and I in action that they neglected to do any active balling!"
"I want to score with Mrs. Breedlove next…," Patty hinted. "She has such nice big sexy boobies! I'd just love sucking on one of them. Would you let me-Brenda?"
"I-er-I guess you can…," Brenda blushed, "You seem to know what you're doing. Maybe you'd rather suck one of the men?"
"I like women too… " Patty laughed.
"Get a action shot of this one-Duke…!" Jerry directed. "My wife doesn't dig the lesbian scene. But I bet she turns on with this talented cherub!"
"That adolescent pressed one of the most mouth-watering kisses on my lips… " Brenda verified. "Patty's kiss was like a sharp bolt of electricity running down my spine. I sizzled all the way down to my toes. It's so damn sexy being made love to by a child! So damn unnerving! My hair stood on end as that tongue moved round inside my mouth. I felt firm fingers grasp my 36 C bosom. I felt them swell and grow firm in Patty's hand, I felt those soft and sensual lips moving to my tits. I felt Patty pinch my tits between her teeth in a painfully sensual gesture!"
"Oh-honey…!," Brenda cooed. "Oh-god- go down!"
"Want me to suck it-sweetie…?" Patty smirked, easting several eyes upward, "I bet if I flick my tongue like crazy over your clitty I can make you pop-off."
"Damn it-Patty…," Brenda raved. "Go down on me. Eat my box!"
"I shoved my muff against her f ace…," Brenda glowed in avid recollection. "My rough pussy hairs rubbed against her chin. Patty did not hesitate a moment in lapping between my labia! I felt her soft and sensual fingers probing the area of my buttocks. I felt the soft caressing, the probing fiery finger in my rectum."
"Oh-hit my ASS…," Brenda choked. "Suck my clit and poke it in my ass!"
"The whole escapade was recorded on film…," Jerry exclaimed. "Later the police confiscated my erotic reels of film. Fortunately Patty was the only minor involved in my erotic movies. And fortunately we happen to live in Illinois where it isn't a criminal offense to have sexual relations with other adults. But we almost got a stiff sentence for cohabiting with a minor. I guess the Judge felt sorry for us and decided to let us of f with a warning to seek psychiatric help. He could have been a lot tougher."
"What else happened with that child?"
"Everything-god-everything!," Jerry resonated. "Patty seemed to take forever eating my wife's cookie-jar. Brenda shot her Bartholin secretions into that kid's mouth. She groaned a grateful 'thank-you.' Patty climbed on top of my wife and rubbed her hot little body all over Brenda. I never thought my wife had a gay bone in her body but she sure 'turned-on-and-turned-in' with that kid."
"The rest of the evening was a fantastic group-grope session…," Jerry verified. "One big wild love-out! Every guy in the joint wanted to lay Patty. Duke disappeared and went upstairs for a long while. I heard the sound of the refrigerator door closing in the kitchen. Then Duke appeared downstairs sporting a mammoth erection."
"Get me and the kid on film…," Duke demanded, holding his expanding tool. "I'm going to give you a flick to remember!"
"You're one big man…!," Patty blushed.
(During this part of the interview Duke came with Brenda and Jerry and gave a first person account of his mating with the talented sex-child. Duke is a tall muscular man who works out regularly at the YMCA gym. His muscles are unusually prominent and solid. His whole countenance testifies to the fact that he is quite an athletic and undoubtedly sexually virile person.)
"I didn't tell anyone what I had done…," Duke related, "I wanted to make a flick that no one would forget. So I'd done something sensational. I had rubbed hot Tabasco sauce all over my aching penis. You know-the stuff that burns something fierce. That hot sauce! I've done it before with my wife Laura. It nearly drives her out of her mind. You can't imagine how that stuff burns once it gets inside you!"
"Why are you looking so miserable-bearcat…?," Patty inquired/approaching and glancing downward at my gargantuan prick. "You look like you're in pain."
"This gawd-damn stiff thing between my legs is killing me…," Duke gasped. "Come on-honey. Lay down. No preliminaries. I need to knock myself off before my jizz backs up and turns to stone."
"Poor baby!," Patty smiled, moving to the couch. "God-but you've got an enormous tool!"
"I'm a first class mechanic-baby!," Duke frowned. "I'm going to put your hot-box in order. Maybe you've met your match now. I hope so. I'm dying to get inside you."
"I literally pounced on that gaping snatch…," Duke laughed. "I drove my elephantine erection into that wet box. I paid very close attention to Patty's face. I motioned Jerry to zero in with the camera. You caught her expression, didn't you, when she realized what I was doing to her?"
"Yeah-sure!," Jerry resonated. "Patty's surprised expression came out fabulous on film. That girl jumped like a hot poker was burning her jewel. Her eyes popped wide open and rolled back in their sockets! Her mouth opened. Patty gasped out one of the most unearthly cries I've ever heard."
"What's on your dick…?," Patty hissed. "Gawd-damn-what the Hell is it? It's burning the fire out of me. Oh-gawd-it's burning. Oh-take it out Oh-love me!! Love me for gawd's sake and put out that fire!"
"I rammed it into her…,. I," Duke blushed* "It really embarrasses me to say this in front of you. But I knew what kind of film we'd get if I used that damn Tabasco sauce on my dick. It was that burning the hell-fire out of me. I slapped my hands under Patty's buttocks. I yanked Patty up against the root of my dick. I literally impaled her on my bursting tool. I was like a mad-man driving my pile-driver into her. Patty responded like she was being copulated by a stallion, Patty jerked and screamed. She even pulled some of my hairs out as I screwed her to an orgasm. The couch cushion was soft and yielding. I worked a probing finger into her anus, I sodomized that tight butt. My tool ripped into her burning vagina!"
"Oh-daddy-wooooooo!," Patty blushed. "I'm going into or… bit!"
"My jizz spewed into her vagina, cooling some of the fire and fury of her belly…," Duke blushed. "Patty had an exhausting climax. Her cream was all over my penis! Patty didn't move to get up off the couch."
"Patty's step-father took a crack at her…," Duke recollected. "I got involved with Laura, Jerry and Brenda in a four way fuck-out. I stuck my meat-stick into Laura while Jerry sodomized Brenda and we all were on that damn crazy foam wall-to-wall love pad! It's the damnedest sensation when everyone shoots their slippery cream all over that cool black vinyl. We all have multiple orgasms when everything gets going real hot. That means a hell of a lot of jizz is being spewed on that black vinyl cover. We all have a blast. We all get to sliding around on our mingled 'cum'. Now and then one of us will deliberately aim our spewing joints at the vinyl! Hell-I've seen Jerry so horny he pumps his swollen penis down against the soft sensual covering. Jerry lays there moving his thighs in circles as he mashes his swelling penis down against the vinyl. Too bad I missed getting an action shot of that!"
"A really wi… ld thing happened…," Brenda interrupted. "I think I should mention it. It might be important to you. I mean… it's something quite different and groovy! Patty went upstairs and got one of my toothbrushes! Also a pan of hot soapy water. I wondered if Patty were going to give us a demonstration of how she brushed her teeth. But no! Patty pushed me down on the couch. She literally held me still with her bony knee in my abdomen. She kissed my soft lips a moment until she had me absolutely steaming. Then Patty began to rub that damned toothbrush back and forth over my clitoris. Those semi-rigid bristles moved fantastically over my swelling love-pod. Slowly Patty began working that stiff-bristled toothbrush into my vagina. The sensations were out of this world. I couldn't remain quiet for a single moment. My movements became absolutely wanton as the arousing object solicited the intended response from my thrashing body. Patty kept diddling me with the toothbrush and dipping it into soapy water, gooing it up good with gobs of soapy, always lubricating so that it moved sensuously inside my vagina."
"This is the best method of keeping your puss clean…," Patty laughed. "You can do it to yourself too!"
"I felt myself being nudged towards a violent and explosive climax…,"Brenda spoke. "I wasn't aware of any sensations except the raw kind of sensual pleasure that each magnificent stroke brought me."
"Pretty cunnie… clean… cunnie!," Patty teased, with a moronic grin. Staring down at my juicing cunt. "When I get you broke into this method you're a likely candidate for the electric model. I can get pretty wicked with this groovy instrument if you go in for slight sado-masochism."
"No-er-no thanks…," Brenda affirmed. "This model is bad enough!"
"Okay-doll-baby…," Patty cooed. "Be a good baby-doll and come quick!"
"Everybody must have raided my bathroom…," Brenda laughed, "Because suddenly everyone had a toothbrush in their hands. Men and women were dipping the damn things in soap and rubbing it over their own genitals. Duke was being overly-aggressive with my husband Jerry. Duke was shoving it into Jerry's rectum. Thrusting it in and out… like a mad-man!"
"Owww-you bet that hurt!," Jerry verified. "Until that wild throbbing pain turned to pleasure I thought I would lose my mind. One of the girls gave me some instant relief when she began sucking my prong while Duke masturbated my anus and cleaned it out with that handy household item!"
"Duke…," Brenda laughed, "jacked himself off with the toothbrush then, rubbing it all over the rippled underside of his sleeping corona. When his cock stiffened and he proceeded to rough it up to an eventual orgasm, Duke allowed his spewing jizz to cream the bristles. Then Duke took that toothbrush and rammed it up into Vicki's cunt. Duke's ejaculation poured like wet cream into that slippery orifice. Lucky for Vicki she had had a complete hysterectomy because the way Duke jammed it into her it must have pounded against her cervix. Vicki had some wild reactions to that handy gadget. She couldn't resist venting her hot liquid orgasm either!"
"I want to say right now that we don't dig way out perversions…," Brenda related, almost as an afterthought. "Our sex is almost always either oral or genital. Sometimes-but only rarely-anal. We aren't out to set any records for being drastically deviate. We think the basic sexual positions become even more thrilling when they are explored considerably in depth in mutual group sessions."
"None of us are out to steal each other's husbands…," Brenda affirmed. "We're surprisingly satisfied with our own. We think we can share each other's mates and perhaps enhance each other's sensual awareness of our own bodies. No one in our group is a sexual deviate. We're just normal people who like sex and sexual stimulation. Sure we swap. But the basic expression of our highly-charged sexual urge is normal!"
"Continue… "
"I enjoy swapping…," Brenda stated. "Just because of one bad incident with the law I'm not ready to quite a winner. I think if a group of adults who are emotionally mature want to indulge in a bit of swapping it's their own concern. I admit we were in fault by allowing Vicki and Charles to bring their daughter to our house to swap. I admit-we may have made one hell of a huge mistake. But then who could turn down such an arousing and sensual temptation when it's offered completely free of any strings? I bet even the Judge would have found it difficult to keep his staff from jumping up against his belly-button under his robe. Patty is a groovy sensual kid. She has this overwhelming almost magnetic effect on you. I never thought our neighbors would spot any hanky-panky in our basement and then call the police. No one was more surprised than I was when we were raided."
"Continue…,"
"Well…," Brenda concluded, "Vicki and Charles were criminally prosecuted for contributing to the sexual delinquency of a minor. Patty was placed in a foster home with a Presbyterian minister and his wife who had remained childless for eleven years. Frankly I think they got their hands full when they took on Patty. But of course they were told about her very promiscuous background before they took charge of her. I think maybe the minister might lose some of his shining beliefs before it's over with. I mean-Patty could tarnish even the most shining angel! That minister is going to have his hands full if Patty gets her hot little paws oh him,"
"I realize now…," Brenda softened, "that kids have no place in the swapping world* I know now that Jerry and I both made a big mistake. But we had to learn the hard way. I admit my mistakes. So does Jerry. I just wish all of those beautiful reels of film hadn't been stolen. It seems they were left laying around the courthouse after our trial. They disappeared. Jerry and I are both sorry because we'd love to have some small remembrance of Patty. Even on film. Sometimes I wonder if the Judge didn't lift them to show in his own private chambers after hours!"
PSYCHOLOGICAL COMMENT:
This case history reveals that most swappers indulge in some form of sexual behavior which could be termed 'abnormal'. Few swappers who consider themselves sexually 'free' make very elaborate efforts to keep their activities secret. Many swappers advertise openly in correspondence clubs and monthly bulletins that circulate freely among millions of advocates of the new sexual freedom.
Brenda openly admits she occasionally participates in homosexual acts while swinging. Brenda, however, is quick to affirm that she is not latently homoerotic. She states that although she finds such acts mildly stimulating she indulges more to please her husband and other men who find such lesbian maneuvers arousing. Brenda notes her greatest homoerotic thrill came when Patty performed cunnilingus upon her.
During swap sessions many heterosexual persons indulge in homoerotic activities. In WIFE SWAPPERS, Roger Blake notes…
"… a wife-swapper, or any sexual adventurer or adventuress, may delve into many forms of vicarious or actual homosexual practices during a group love session, and still not consider himself or herself to be homoerotic." (3)
As Brenda swiftly observes, many heterosexual wives act thusly to please their mates. Roger Blake in WIFE SWAPPERS comments…
"In some instances of orgiastic swapping, husbands often insist that their wives make moves to each other while they watch. And many authorities feel that this in itself is an indirect expression of latent homosexuality in the husbands, although it may be nothing more than submitting to the will of their spouses by the women involved." (3)
While many husbands like to watch their wives in lesbian acts and may be latently homoerotic others are merely voyeurs. Swappers may be polymorphous, perverse, and plurisexual-some may even be latently homosexual-but mostly they are bisexual and capable of diverse physical pleasures.
Many swappers note they have engaged in sexual contacts with minors. Many broad-minded swapping parents introduce their children to sex through the group swap scene. Most often such incidents never come to the attention of authorities. Any sexual violation of a minor by any adult is a criminally illegal offense. Vicki and Charles were apprehended allowing their daughter to participate in group sex. The child was taken from her parents and placed in a foster home. Brenda and Jerry admit that they realized that carnal relations with a minor were illegal. But they felt that since the youth enjoyed the activities so much and had her parents consent that it would be safe to admit the child into their swapping circle. Jerry and Brenda are no longer willing to consider minors as part of their intimate group. While Jerry and Brenda found the experience with Patty thrilling they do not desire a repeat performance.
No two swappers are alike. While most are out and out hedonists who seem remarkably free of sexual hang-ups, others may be neurotic compulsives who can do little to restrict the perverse expression of their own desires. Surprising as it may seem, however, most authorities note that the majority of swappers are mature and well-adjusted, with those seeking ‘group sex' as an escape in a small minority.
My opinion is that Brenda and Jerry are quite normally and sexually responsive persons. Swapping provides the change for 'variety' which they both desperately need. I find no indications of perverse motivations in their behavior. I believe Jerry and Brenda will continue swapping but in the future will be most reluctant to include minors within their select group.