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Dutch Labour party leader Wouter Bos was turned away from a polling station in Amsterdam on Wednesday because he showed up to vote without all the right papers. That’s not the way to start off an election day now is it?

The Labour leader, Bos, who is usually calm and relaxed, cameras Bos, at first looked stunned In front of dozens of television and then sheepish before hurrying home to fetch the correct documentation.

Bos has seen a commanding opinion poll lead vanish over recent months as his rival, Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, took the credit for an economic recovery in the run-up to Wednesday’s parliamentary election.

There’s no word yet on how he did in the election but that couldn’t have been a good Omen.

Interestingly, every two months, dozens of couples meet in a pub in Singapore, have drinks, mingle, and then decide whether they want to sleep with one another. In other Countries this would not be looked upon as being all that odd but in a country where oral sex is illegal and Playboy magazine is banned this is pretty unusual.

There are more than 10 swingers clubs in Singapore, most of them private, some of them online. With more than 6,000 members, the Web-based United SG Swingers is one of the biggest.

A 42-year-old Singaporean company executive who only wanted to be identified as Jack said “There are a lot more people that are open to the idea. It’s so widespread now, Swinging is all about sex. It’s satisfying the urge to have casual sex and doing it with somebody you’re comfortable with,” said Jack, who has been swinging for 10 years.

For all their enthusiasm, few swingers tell family and friends about their lifestyle, although the practice is not illegal in Singapore. Swinger believe that they will be perceived as perverts if they are open with their friends and family about their lifestyle choices.

In another interesting turn, this past Friday Singapore opened Sexpo 2006, the country’s second sex exhibition, featuring an array of toys and seminars.

At United SG Swingers, people share erotic photographs, exchange personal ads and correspond about the next gathering. It is a close-knit community in which couples recommend good sex partners and criticise those who aren’t. A police spokesman confirmed that swinging is not illegal as long as it is done behind closed doors, is consensual and no money changes hands.

This year, the organisers of United SG Swingers started holding “on premise” parties, where couples can engage in group sex in houses and hotel rooms across Singapore. At these parties, the bedrooms have a strict clothes-off rule and the “hard swingers” can engage in partner swapping. The “soft swingers” are couples who stand around and watch, or have sex with their own partners in full view of others.

Couples who swing say that seeing their own partners in action keeps their passion burning. “It’s like looking at cake and wanting to eat it,” said the main organiser of United SG Swingers, 37-year-old IT specialist Josh, as his 32-year-old wife nodded in agreement.

But some swingers disapprove of these parties, saying they can degenerate into orgies. “You can’t establish pure friendships when there’s a large group,” said Ishak. “Genuine swingers would want to establish trust — you can’t trust a person just by meeting them one time and then think they can do it with your wife.”

A 34-year-old Australian who attends swinging parties told Reuters that Singapore’s scene is just evolving. “It’s very innocuous here, it’s not like other countries,” he said. “Compared to Australia and Europe, it’s more discreet and less lively. Singaporeans are pretty reserved in a lot of ways.”

Interesting news from China, where homosexuality was listed as a mental disorder until 2001. China has opened its first hotline for lesbians following the success of a service for gay men, state media reported on Wednesday.

The free hotline operates in Shanghai, the free-wheeling financial centre where social change has outpaced the rest of China. The hotline opened earlier this week. The new line is staffed by trained counsellors and the plan is to provide “real help” for lesbians.

“Many lesbians in China are pressured into marrying men and end up living miserable lives,” sociologist Li Yinhe was quoted as saying. Understanding and tolerance from lesbians’ families and friends were needed, she added.

Recent Chinese history - During the Mao era, homosexuals were persecuted, especially during the Cultural Revolution when they risked prison terms and even death sentences. Even today homosexuals still face stigma and discrimination.

China doesn’t have any official statistics on homosexuality. The health authority estimated there were five to 10 million gays at the end of 2004, but some experts put the number at least 30 million.