Author: Cooper S. Beckett

First, I promise that Life on the Swingset won’t be the All My Life on the Swingset Channel after this week. I did very much so hijack my website for the launch of My Life on the Swingset: Adventures in Swinging & Polyamory. Like Gary Oldman, I hijacked it. But today is Saturday, the week has settled, the launch went smoother than I could’ve hoped. I am getting ready to take a bit of a leave, after all the work that went pretty non-stop into the book, and all the work that went into this launch. But before I go,…

It’s no secret that before a fateful night in San Francisco in 2011, I wasn’t all that kinky. I’d dabbled, sure, but in general I never quite felt the urge or the need. I could see why other people did it as well. It took a night at Mission Control in San Fran to change things. In one night I was both Dom and sub, and my eyes were wide open. It didn’t make me a hard core Dom or sub, mind you. But it did show me what everybody else was always talking about. “So, Cooper,” says the guy…

A while back I reviewed the Realtouch, a masturbation machine, and was rather astonished to find it to be a pretty damned good product. Sure it was oversized, connected by large cables, heavy, and noisy, but it got me right to orgasm rather quickly and impressively. A device like this has the potential to be the (Hitachi) Magic Wand Original for penis havers. (I realize that the argument can certainly be made that the aforementioned Magic Wand is indeed also for penis havers, but I’m just gonna pass that discussion by.) A recurring theme in my reviews tends to be the…

Do you think we, as producers, purveyors, purchasers, and patrons, could all just agree that it is unlikely that something will come along to “revolutionize” male masturbation in sex toy form? I’ve been doing this a while, and have seen so many so-called “revolutionary” products come and go, none being quite so revolutionary, or worse having great potential but fatal flaws. Usually revolutionary is just a code word for weird, like the VerSpanken. Or cost prohibitive, like the Real Touch. I may sound like a broken record here, but the unless you’re really chasing prostate orgasms seriously while simultaneously convincing average…

I have many pieces in my toy collection that I feel could be considered objects of art. The nJoy toys definitely qualify, several of the glass toys, a few wooden dildos. All pleasure objects. Art pieces. The Corkscrew from Fucking Sculptures definitely qualifies. It is perhaps one of the most beautiful objects of art in my collection, green sparkling glass twisted into a bulky candy cane shape. Bulky isn’t a term you usually throw around when discribing the beauty of an object. But you do use it when describing some of our girthier toy friends we fuck. And this IS…

We don’t have a new Swingset episode this week ‘cuz, reasons. Summer, etc. Moving. You know the drill. That said, Miko, Ophilia, and I have released the first episode of Eat The Rudecast, an Unofficial Podcast about NBC’s Hannibal, Hannibal Lecter and the works of Thomas Harris. Since there was no new episode this week, we’ve decided to run episode one of Eat The Rudecast, which reviews episode one of NBC’s Hannibal. If you’re looking for a refreshing and geeky summer treat, check it out. If you’d prefer to wait until next week when we’ll be back with more sexytime…

I’ve mentioned my safer sex kit extensively over the years, and the kit itself has ballooned in that time. I’ll be the first to admit that my definition of safer sex (earlier “safe sex”) has changed since the moment I started carrying one. (And even moreso now that we’ve been calling it “Risk Aware Sex”) In the beginning, it was a small tin from Durex with three condoms in it. Knowing that I was really never one to go more than twice, the third condom was a backup in case of issues, and emergency provisions should I get a Herculean…

Perhaps I’m jaded. As I do this longer it becomes harder and harder to impress me, sex toy wise. I think that this is why, when our Holiday Toy Special comes around, year after year I throw my number one pick to the nJoy Eleven. It’s inevitable, in fact, that when you see a LOT of something, a few items bubble to the surface while most slip down the drain. The Shock Rocker is the first item we’ve been sent that has truly IMPRESSED me in a long time. First, sitting here, writing this review, I’m wondering if it can truly…

Quite a lot of time has gone by since I last shifted my lube allegiance. In the early days of swinging, and the early days of this blog, I tried out just about every type of lube I saw. Mainly because other swingers had their own lube allegiances, too. So while I was trying out other people, I was trying out an amazing variety of lube. What was really amazing, though, was how bad much of it was. Certainly the drugstore brands. You know, the little bottles up on top of the condom endcap, usually KY Jelly or Astroglide. Now…

There was a long topic suggestion on the #coop500 hashtag revolving around the various types of nudity levels expected at play parties. And I fully intend to get to that topic. But I also like the idea of just talking about nudity, and wrapping that into body image as a male. This is where I say that men also suffer from issues of body image, especially at swing events where their cocks may be hanging out and, while flaccid, may be of really any size from python to turtle hiding in its shell. But you know that, right? We know…