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Who are swingers, what is swinging, and what can you expect from a swinger website like Swinger Social Network?

Swingers, Swinging and the alternative Lifestyle

In order to understand the answer to the questions: "Who are swingers?" and "What is swinging?" you first have to understand that questions about swinging are really meaningless outside of a fairly modern and singularly Western context. You don’t have to go back too far in time for the concept of free sexual association and unconstrained recreational sex to be as mundane as to make the question of what is swinging almost meaningless.

As an example, can you imagine how the ruling class of the 1st Century Roman Empire would respond to a question about what is swinging? Remember that this was the era of naked roman baths, private banquets turned public orgies, Bacchus celebrations, complete and total acceptance of homosexuality to the point that Latin really doesn’t differentiate it from other kinds of sex, religious ceremonies using temple prostitutes to channel spiritual energy during sex, widespread expectation that servants (male or female) were have sex with their patron or guests, and a culture where even a waitress in a pub would normally have sex for a small sum of money.

It is also equally meaningless if you transport the description of swinging to other cultures not confined by Western religious edicts. It doesn’t make sense to have a unique abstraction defining alternative sexual behavior when the sexual mores of the culture already include the behavior of swingers as normal. Sexual practices in places like pre-colonial Tahiti, Bali, and Hawaii were famous for their open and accepted polyamorous relationships. Another example would be the Hindu religion recognizing 8 types of marriages derived from sex, including the union between a woman and her lover. So too, many primitive and aboriginal peoples have vastly different concepts from the West on what marriage is, when and with whom people can have sex, and what is considered appropriate sexual activity.

So when the question is asked "what is swinging?" you must first understand that it is a question that is not asked by all peoples without significant readjustment of their understanding of what is considered "normal" sexual behavior. But if we narrowly constrain ourselves to a modern Western perception of sexuality and sexual relations then swinging is usually seen as outside of the norm of sexual behavior and sexual mores that are not within mainstream perceptions, e.g. it is an alternative lifestyle. The only problem of course with defining what is an alternative lifestyle is that the target continually is moving based on what is considered "normal" versus objective criteria. At what point does a practice become accepted to the point that it is no longer considered alternative? In fairly recent history, oral sex and blow jobs (fellatio/cunninlingus) were considered sodomy, immoral and, in fact, illegal in some US states. In fact such blue laws can still be found in some parts of the country. But even if an act is not widely practiced, it can still be considered acceptable by a majority and therefore become mainstream. Homosexual orientation has been repeatedly identified in rigorous studies as including approximately 1-3% of a general population. Yet today, despite these relatively low numbers, gay and lesbians are nearly fully accepted in almost every strata of society without exception to the point that it is considered mainstream.

So who are swingers and what is swinging? And is that different from the Lifestyle? The word "alternative" in alternative lifestyle has almost completely dropped from the lexicon and has been replaced with just the word Lifestyle. Nonetheless, swingers in particular and the lifestyle in general comprise those individuals who engage in sexual practices that are more expansive in their expression and more liberated in their attitudes than the rest of society. For the most part swingers are unrestricted by narrow rules about sexual relationships and uninhibited in their sexual activities. That said, the Lifestyle is often seen as the larger umbrella that covers a wide range of beliefs, activities, orientation and predilections. Bisexuality, bondage, cuckold, watersports, gang bangs are just some of the things that could be described within the term of Lifestyle. But swinging and swingers may or may not include any of those activities.

Although the vanilla world typically sees swinging as just couples who wife-swap, it cannot be so narrowly constrained to just that one possible activity among the diversity of sexual activities that can be accomplished with more than two people. To begin with, swingers comprise more than just married couples. There are plenty of both unmarried couples as well as singles in the Lifestyle who consider themselves swingers and engage in swinger sex. Additionally, many couples agree to swing separately with others. Of course there are also all the possible combinations and permutations that swingers can enjoy with threesomes, foursomes and moresomes. It doesn’t take long for one to see the attraction of swinging when one starts to fantasize about all the things that three, four or five (or more) naked people can do all together in bed! Positions, logistics, extra hands, more tongues, more openings, more genitalia, help, support, sights, sounds and sensations—all accentuated and increased with more participants. Simply put, swinging is much more than just a new partner. It is new partner(s), new sights, new sensations, new combinations, new experiences that you have never even thought of before! And the best part of swinging is that it is all done with the acceptance and open-mindedness of other swingers who view recreational sex the same what that you do.

And in order to help you enjoy those swinging experiences and help find other swingers like you, we have built this website to help find people you like. On Swinger Social Network you can expect to find real people, not fakes. The swingers you find on Swinger Social Network are just like you—novice beginners, practiced mavens, and swinging experts. The site is populated by married and unmarried couples, young and mature, newbies and veterans, straight, bisexual and gay, single females and single males, plus thousands who have all kinds of fun fetishes and kinks that might just be your style! No matter what, you’ll discover a whole world of swingers and swinging that will help you find your own definition of what it means to be in the Lifestyle and what kind of a swinger you are or wish to become.