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.

I wanted to throw a shout out to our good friends Mr. & Mrs. SwapFu (Mr. SwapFu has been a guest blogger on our very own Swingset, writing Unfriended, and Swinging Without a Net) and the SwapFu podcast.  Usually their show revolves around their ever growing experiences in the “organized swinging lifestyle” having been swingers with out using any of the formal channels for many years. I’ve had the opportunity to chat with both of them on several occasions and plan to have them climb on the Swingset in the not too distant future, but I specifically wanted everybody who’s…

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It looks like candy was my first thought when I picked up the small packet containing a bright red gummy looking Ringo cock ring sent to us from Babeland.com.  It reminded me so viscerally of those large gummy rings I used to get as a kid that I half expected it to smell of medicinal cherry when I opened the packet. This is about as simple as a cock ring can get.  Just a silicone O, plenty stretchy, but still holds tight.  I played with it a while, rolling it around with my fingers, trying to get a feel.  I…

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I’d seen the pictures of EVOLved’s Talon prostate stimulator on the website, and thought it looked quite interesting.  Its design looks as though it was twisted from a piece of silicone as it was hardening. The top half is a talon like finger, coming to a nicely pointed (though rounded off) point right at prostate level and the bottom tapers off to a small set of two bumps that rest firmly on the perineum. As I’d been recently reviewing the products from the Nexus Range product line, I had an idea of the size and shape this probably was. During my…

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I gotta say it was simple rampant curiosity that got me to request it. I mean, look at it up there…Hannah Harper’s Titty Fuck-Her from Pipedreams is tits with a pussy in the middle!  How unique and odd a product could there be?  (Though, when you really think about it…the pocket pussy is a very disturbing looking product)  So when the request went out of who wants to review this unique item, I held my hand high and was thankful for the occasional product that didn’t involve anal stimulation. Despite my enthusiasm, I staved off the desire to open it…

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Perhaps I’m a bit paranoid, but I never know when it’s a good time to have “the information exchange.” Tonight, at the bar we frequent that is, shall we say, Lifestyle friendly, I had a conversation with a good friend of ours about the information exchange.  This can be at any number of points in the “getting to know you” relationship as a swinger, and some people may NEVER do the information exchange.

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Ok, this is a bit weird, and it’s very late at night, very early in the morning, so I want to see if I’m crazy. Alexa over at The Real Princess Diaries talked about a very odd way to suppress your gag reflex.  You know, to deep throat…or maybe not get upset at the dentist or doctor, I don’t want to assume. So, here’s the trick, and I specifically want to see if it works for you guys. Step 1: Put your left thumb against your palm, wrap your fingers around it.  You should now have a fist with your…

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So explain to me how these people, standing outside this club, taking pictures of license plates so that, by the time the couples leave the club, they already know them by name, know where they live and where they work, explain to me how this privacy invasion in the name of GOD isn’t fucking terrorism.  This is down in Amarillo, TX friends, where a militant group called “Repent Amarillo” (‘cuz apparently it’s the whole place that needs savin’) has decided to take down club “Route 66,” a swing club, by vehemently harassing its members. I wonder what skeletons are in…

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Well, maybe not for AMERICA, certainly not CAPITAL USA, but for freedom. May is National Masturbation Month.  Thanks to the folks at Goodvibes who, in 1995, declared it so.   It’s not a THING thing, I mean it’s not like they’re putting Fleshlights out in front of Walgreens and have kids passing out bottles of lube to their classmates with “Be Yours” written on them.  (Sigh, what a world THAT would be….)   But it is for real and I say it’s our civic duty as swingers to not neglect our solo love simply because we can have octet love.…

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We had an oops this last Wednesday nite. We were supposed to meet a new couple at a swinger friendly bar we frequent and Marilyn had come down with a fever. I texted the couple (don’t you love that texted has become a real word), along with a few others from the bar we usually see to let them know that we wouldn’t be out that night, apologizing profusely, then we relaxed, stayed in, and Marilyn went to bed. The next day I got an email on our favorite Lifestyle site from them, saying that this was a first, that…

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It’s some high and mighty spin with a buried lead. The jist of the article is that sex has become somewhat trivialized and non-romantic. People are having sex with more partners at the same time (which, according to the article is called “‘concurrency,’ in sexual behavior lingo” [And Isincerely doubt that a term like concurrency has EVER been able to be termed “lingo”]) and they’re doing it in so called “friends with benefits” relationships and “nonromantic sexual encounters.” So, what’s this doing? SPREADING DISEASE! LIKE HERPES! Run for the hills, swingers, our friends with benefits and other nonromantic sexual encounters, and dear god, our CONCURRENCY is going to kill us all!

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