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And they promoted the Hardwood Cabin online.

Up to 60 guests at a time came to jumble, sunbathe exposed by the pool and have sex with fellow swingers and fetishists, Elliston declared. Parties were resort to frequently sufficiency that the married pair’s laundry office was cycling through 50 bedsheets a week.

But the couple shut down the sex set last month when they were cited for running a business independently of a license and threatened with fines of up to $513 a day.

City officials speak naked or not, the couple had been warned that their activities violated zoning laws for their residential vicinage. Large swingers groups aren’t unusual locally, but they commonly meet in commercial areas or hotels and not close to other homes.

The gatherings also led to several visits by police responding to neighbors’ repeated complaints of noise and nudity.

Elliston and Lane-Smith say they’re being persecuted for their lifestyle, and insist they didn’t charge admission. They’re looking for in some place new to host parties. They say they should have the right to be permanent their lives and use their property the way they see fit.

“We’re happy hedonists,” Elliston said. “As far as I be aware of you’re still allowed to throw a cabal in your edifice.”

“We’re normal people”

Elliston, 40, and Lane-Smith, 39, met at a swingers party in Puyallup seven years ago and married three years later.

Lane-Smith is a self-employed computer consultant; Elliston does consulting work in the court system.

“We’re normal people who happen to enjoy sex,” Elliston said.