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Swinging Today

The swinging lifestyle, as we know it today, has evolved, grown and changed during the last 60 years.

For many years, the small home party situations were the only way people enjoyed swinging, and they were restricted to couples only. In the times when society was very male-dominated, it was definitely considered wife swapping. The attitude was "you can swing with my wife, if I can swing with yours?" It's a fact that many people and clubs haven't progressed past this restrictive attitude even today! Only for the last few years, have some clubs allowed female or male singles.

Today, there are on and off premise swing clubs in most countries of the world. The National Association formed by club owners and swing magazine publishers host many widely varied functions like conventions, camp-outs, cruises, tours and fun weekends. These events give everyone a chance to meet and exchange information.

When a person attends these functions, they are able to learn that the majority of the participants are definitely not the "dregs of the universe", as the general public has been led to believe they are. In fact, just the opposite is true!

The popular media's depiction of the swinging lifestyle is only maybe 10-20% accurate. The vast majority of swingers are highly intelligent, successful, community leaders, and almost always the type of person you would love to have for a friend or neighbour. They're the lovers of the universe, showing love, consideration and caring. They only want to be left alone to enjoy their friends, as they each desire!

They believe in their right to enjoy their sexuality, in private, in their own homes or in organized swing clubs. They learn how to show love to themselves and to their friends. They're secure in their personal lives and in their sexuality, so they don't feel the need to try to control anyone else's lives or sexuality. They have a natural outlet for their sexual desires, with consenting adults.

Committed couples that have acknowledged themselves as swingers, and have come into the swinging lifestyle, act as each other's best friend and continue to have totally truthful relationships, rather than lie to each other and have secret affairs.

Couples that have been able to admit that they enjoy the swinging lifestyle attend the major functions the lifestyle offers. This helps them to grow, learn and get past their fears, while the closet swingers deny themselves this opportunity due to their fears.

If I could sum up, what the swinging lifestyle really is and isn't, I would have to say that depends totally upon the needs, desired and attitudes of each individual who enters it. If you desire only more and better opportunities for sex, that is possible! If you want to meet people from all over the world, that is possible! So, just as in every other facet of life, swinging is what you make of it, nothing more and nothing less.

WE ARE NOT DOING ANYTHING NEW OR DIFFERENT - WE ARE JUST DOING IT BETTER!!!

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