Enthusiasts Web sites alert practitioners to known dogging locations — more than 100 in Surrey alone — and offer handy etiquette tips for the confused or overly excited. Only join in or move closer if you are asked, advises one site, Swinging Heaven, which says it has more than one million registered members. Richard Byrne, a senior lecturer in countryside management at Harper Adams University College in Shropshire, said that modern technology has made dogging much more convenient than it used to be, thanks to search engines, Facebook groups and people tweeting about their experiences. And of course, everybody’s got mobiles,he said.
Swinging Heaven says that the practice began in Britain in the 1970s, and that the term comes from the phenomenon of voyurs doggedly following people having sex. Others say that practitioners claim to be walking the dog when they are, in fact, going out to meet naked strangers in fields. Britons are a tolerant bunch, and most probably would not care who watched whom doing what in whatever configuration, as long as they all went somewhere else. Why, Puttenham residents wonder, do they have to do it 400 yards from the village nursery school? We have nothing against gays or whoever it is up there, said Lydia Paterson, who lives here. It’s just the principle of, What on earth is going on?
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