Jeannie relates her life story to her shrink.
"Diary Of A Swinger" vividly portrays the private hell beneath the public glamor of a swinger...today's turn-on girl. The girl who must be where the action is...be the action, no matter what the cost. How does a quiet girl from a small New England town become a swinger...a straw girl, a hollow girl? Jeannie is twenty-one and she has had the course...all the kicks...all the glitter...and un unsuccessful suicide attempt that finally forces her to accept psychiatric care.Through intimate flash-backs the audience sees in clinical detail all the emotionally searing events that brought her to the brink of suicide.
Was it the rape? In the early morning of her womanhood, Jeannie loved to roam the bright, clean farmlands near her home. One morning she met a local farmhand...they walked together...talked a while...then finally she found herself in the fragrant meadow grass...his virile shoulders blocked the sun and in her eyes warm mist obscured the sky...a little scream died in her throat. But was it rape? The solid farm folk didn't think so. The accusation in their eyes affirmed their knowledge of their guilt.
Escape. From them, from herself. Jeannie came to New York to lose herself in the lonely crowd. There she shared an apartment with Vivian, warm, knowing, and self-sufficient without men. Jeannie became a secretary in a theatrical agency. Here she hoped to begin a career in the glamor industry, and here she met Jim, a smooth, handsome young actor on his way up. At first their relationship seemed to be the love she needs so desperately to give and receive. But there is room in Jim's ego for only love. Jim can only take, not give. She runs for him when he tries to seduce her and it becomes obvious that he can only make love, not love.
Because of her beauty, Jeannie is fair game for every male on the make. The head of the agency keeps pressuring her and finally attacks her in his office. She moves on to become a model in the shadow world of high fashion. Here the roles of the sexes are obscured and relationships superficial. Jeannie longs for Jim. She tries to reach him, but he has left town on tour. When he returns she runs to him, ready now to settle for only the appearance of a normal love affair. He takes her to an opening night party. But the party turns into a jet-set orgy. When Jeannie refuses to join him in the sexual fun games, Jim grabs another girl and makes love to her in front of Jeannie. Frightened, and distraught, Jeannie runs home.She surprises a burglar. Cornered, alone in her apartment, the burglar attacks and rapes her. When he escapes she makes the suicide attempt that brings her to the psychiatrist.
The psychiatrist tries to help, to reach out...but it is all too late for Jeannie, her emotional wounds are permanent...unable now to ever enjoy healthy relations with a man, she turns reluctantly to the security of Vivian's strange, unnatural love.
