Now We Are Getting Down To The Nitty Gritty!!!!!!!!!!!! Vintage Board Game #23--"Twister!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

                                 This game instantly drew children in.  First, there was the colorful and large, especially for a child, playing board, almost a sort of mat that took up a good deal of the room played in.  Then there were those multi-colored dots, against the stark white background.  And the title, framed on each side, in red.

                                   The other big draw with "Twister," and this was especially applicable with me, was its being billed as "a stocking feet game," where players had to remove their shoes.  I was always one for doing this; I found shoes confining; hell, I would have gone barefoot all the time, if I could.

                                    So "Twister" allowed a kind of physical comfort that most children weren't, with other games.  It felt cool and freeing, but there was a down side to this.

                                      What if you were entwined on the board, and another person's butt was sticking right in your face?

                                       Uh oh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                        I cannot say who or when or how, but someone, at one point, must have discovered the sexual component to this game, and before you knew it, this was the most popular thing, at adult swingers' parties!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                         I am sure it made the gay party circuit as well.  I only played "Twister" the regular way; guess I cared too much about hygiene and crabs to play it with just anyone.

                                         Here is what such a game would have looked like!

                                  Imagine being tied up in knots, with these guys, dolls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                   To think even a children's game manufacturer taught us early that sex sells!!!!!!!!