Open Closed and Soft Swinging
Swinging
Also known as ‘swinging lifestyle’ or simply ‘lifestyle’, swinging involves recreational, non-monogamous socially acceptable sexual activity between consenting adults, mainly couples.
A typical swinging set-up consists of committed male/female couples and sometimes involves threesomes. According to the North American Swing Clubs Association (NASCA), swinging refers to ‘social and sexual intercourse with someone other than your mate, boyfriend or girlfriend’.
What Swinging is Not
Swinging is not about cheating on your partner or engaging in sexual activity without your partner’s consent. Swinging is for consenting adults who are equally keen to participate in the lifestyle; in other words, it’s all above board between couples.
Swinging/Lifestyle Activities
Swinging covers a broad spectrum of mutually sexual-erotic practices, ranging from voyeurism, touching, stroking and heavy petting to oral and penetrative sex.
Swingers’ Lifestyle – The Lowdown
Swinging falls into three broad categories: soft swinging; closed swinging; and open swinging.
Soft Swinging: The distinguishing factor with soft swinging is that the participating couples only have full sexual intercourse with their own partners. Although it isn’t uncommon to see an element of touching and cross-couple foreplay, during a soft swinging session, no actual partner swapping takes place. Types of foreplay are generally negotiated in advance. Voyeurism is key to soft swinging. In cases where a couple introduce a third party as a threesome, the third person rarely engages in sex with the couple, but just watches or is watched. Many people new to the swingers’ lifestyle often start off with soft swinging.
Closed Swinging: This type of swinging involves partner swapping and then having penetrative sex in private, usually in a separate room and not in view of their habitual partner. Closed swinging is recommended for the more inhibited who nevertheless wish to push the boundaries of sexual experimentation.
Open Swinging: As the name suggests, open swinging is where partners or couples swap and have consensual sexual intercourse in the same room, often in the same bed. Open swinging is favoured by swingers who are into full-on exhibitionism, voyeurism, eroticism and extreme sexual activities. For this reason, it’s really important that boundaries are drawn beforehand and that everyone is clear about which sexual practices are acceptable - and which are strictly off-limits.
Also known as ‘swinging lifestyle’ or simply ‘lifestyle’, swinging involves recreational, non-monogamous socially acceptable sexual activity between consenting adults, mainly couples.
A typical swinging set-up consists of committed male/female couples and sometimes involves threesomes. According to the North American Swing Clubs Association (NASCA), swinging refers to ‘social and sexual intercourse with someone other than your mate, boyfriend or girlfriend’.
What Swinging is Not
Swinging is not about cheating on your partner or engaging in sexual activity without your partner’s consent. Swinging is for consenting adults who are equally keen to participate in the lifestyle; in other words, it’s all above board between couples.
Swinging/Lifestyle Activities
Swinging covers a broad spectrum of mutually sexual-erotic practices, ranging from voyeurism, touching, stroking and heavy petting to oral and penetrative sex.
Swingers’ Lifestyle – The Lowdown
Swinging falls into three broad categories: soft swinging; closed swinging; and open swinging.
Soft Swinging: The distinguishing factor with soft swinging is that the participating couples only have full sexual intercourse with their own partners. Although it isn’t uncommon to see an element of touching and cross-couple foreplay, during a soft swinging session, no actual partner swapping takes place. Types of foreplay are generally negotiated in advance. Voyeurism is key to soft swinging. In cases where a couple introduce a third party as a threesome, the third person rarely engages in sex with the couple, but just watches or is watched. Many people new to the swingers’ lifestyle often start off with soft swinging.
Closed Swinging: This type of swinging involves partner swapping and then having penetrative sex in private, usually in a separate room and not in view of their habitual partner. Closed swinging is recommended for the more inhibited who nevertheless wish to push the boundaries of sexual experimentation.
Open Swinging: As the name suggests, open swinging is where partners or couples swap and have consensual sexual intercourse in the same room, often in the same bed. Open swinging is favoured by swingers who are into full-on exhibitionism, voyeurism, eroticism and extreme sexual activities. For this reason, it’s really important that boundaries are drawn beforehand and that everyone is clear about which sexual practices are acceptable - and which are strictly off-limits.
