Author: Cooper S. Beckett

About Cooper Cooper S. Beckett is the co-founder and host of Life on the Swingset: The Podcast since 2010, author of swinging & polyamory novels A Life Less Monogamous and Approaching The Swingularity, and memoir My Life on the Swingset: Adventures in Swinging & Polyamory. He teaches and speaks on swinging, polyamory, pegging, play parties, and coloring outside the boundaries of your sexuality. He is a graphic & web designer, photographer, and voice over artist, has been a guest expert on Dan Savage’s Savage Lovecast, & is the announcer of Tristan Taormino’s radio show Sex Out Loud. He is currently working on two instructional non-fiction books, one about beginning non-monogamy, and another about pegging.

Bondage isn’t my thing. I mean, I’m a swinger, yes, but my tastes to tend to run somewhat vanilla. I’m pretty well satisfied with good old fashioned sex. If it’s with someone else’s wife, also awesome!  But all that aside, the times I’ve tried the bondage stuff just winds up leaving me somewhat perplexed. I’m fascinated, often.  When Tyler gets out his ropes and ties Marilyn up…man oh man, it’s hot, and fascinating, and I love to watch the elaborate knots. And this play time with them has gotten Marilyn to a place where she quite enjoys the bondage. And…

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This is a fresh from the Swingset Labs testing review.  (And we all know what THAT means!) Marilyn and I have been dying to try out the System JO product line ever since Holly and Tyler first introduced us to their standard silicone lube way back when.  We’ve always been impressed with the smoothness and silkiness of their product without a lot of the caveats that we usually find in lubes, stickiness, needing a LOT, etc.  When UPS left us package notification (with signature required when we weren’t home, of course!) and we saw that the box was from System JO, we hopped…

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We here at The Swingset are always happy to help with any questions or concerns you have, please don’t hesitate to ask! Q. Hey guys & gals, I’m in a pickle. My wife & I have been open-ish for a few years. We play with single women as she has a bit of the bi. Everything was going groovily until about a week ago. She decided that she was done being open. Hence the pickle: I’m not done being open. Any advice on how to proceed? What to discuss? Do I just accept it & be happy that I had…

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Let me preface, we don’t generally have sex in the shower.  It’s small, and someone always has to stand directly in the water spray, that is unless we decide to turn the water off, and then we’re just standing in a cold and somewhat dark cell instead of in our inviting king sized bed in the other room. All that said, I was interested when we got the Sex in the Shower Handle and Foot Rest (sold separately) because it addressed one of the other major issues that comes along with sex in the shower, bracing yourself.   You really…

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Over the past week, we’ve been testing and experimenting with the Dr. Love and GetMaxxx brand lubes from Futuring USA.  We’ve tested thoroughly both the silicone and the water based (with aloe) lube.  At the outset, they both work gangbusters.  The bottles are well designed so that the lube comes out through a pump at the top, and only comes out in a tiny amount, allowing you to have real control over how slick you want to get.  We did find their serving size to be a bit lacking, and needing many pumps to get what we wanted. Both Marilyn…

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