Sex was Larry Levenson’s domain. As the owner of swank swingers’ lounge Plato’s Retreat, located inside the Upper West Side’s Ansonia Hotel, he epitomized late 1970s hedonism in NYC — and even made ...

Plato was chosen for many reasons, — his influence upon all subsequent thought, his distance from modern controversies, his grace of expression, his clearness, and his depth ; the English text was ...

In this week’s column, I talk about American Swing, a new documentary about the legendary ’70s sex club Plato’s Retreat. Well, I’ve now seen the movie twice and here’s the really shocking thing–it ...

But why does Plato want to weed out such stories as that, and yet give us a whole lot of myths a great deal harder to believe ? He wants us to believe that the world went round the other way, and ...