Author: Life on the Swingset

A podcast about swinging, polyamory, open relationships, and "the lifestyle" from the trenches. A diverse group tackles many issues involved with non-monogamy and what it means to be a swinger or polyamorous from the point of view of educating and illuminating what, for many, is a confusing journey to start on. Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Stitcher Subscribe via RSS

Ginger takes the cords of the mailbag and sits down with Dylan and a LIVE STUDIO AUDIENCE as they answer listener questions for the 29th Gang Bang the Mailbag! The Swinger Doc also sits down for another edition of the Medical Mailbag! In this mailbag he answers a listener question on risks associated with hot tub sex! Questions in this Gang Bang the Mailbag include: My husband and I opened our relationship about a year ago, and have both developed deep connections with other partners but haven’t dipped our toes into the swinging side of things. I now have a few fun potential opportunities…

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Cooper gets the night off as Ginger makes herself available to Dylan to discuss his attraction to breasts, and his fear that they are the focus of too much attention and energy. The Swinger Doc sits down for another edition of the Medical Mailbag! In this mailbag he answers a listener question on how to find high quality sex positive and nonmonogamy friendly medical care, and answers a question on anonymous STI testing. See the following resources for more information: Judgment Free Health Care Directory (JFHCP) Kink Aware Professionals Directory (NCSF) Locate a Professional directory (AASECT) STDcheck.com Help us out Swingset Fans! While…

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All three of us here on the Swingset have occasionally dated and played independent of our partners, and all three of our partners have dated and played independent of us. A moment that can be tricky, especially early on in the swinging or poly lifestyles, is that moment of re-entry, where our partner (or us) returns from a date or play session. We take time to dissect how re-entry feels when you’re the partner “left behind”, and when you’re the partner on the go. Leave us a comment on this post or at contact@lifeontheswingset.com or leave us a…

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We’ve talked a lot of bout community lately on the Swingset, and while we’ve specifically made the point that it’s not enough to talk about diversity but to take action to seek it out, we’ve done a poor job of acknowledging that diversity includes diversity of racial background and we’ve contributed to a deafening silence around people of color in our communities. We invited Ms Pomegranate and Mr BLK, two Baltimore, MD kink and sex educators, to join us to specifically discuss kink communities and and to discuss the experience of people of color in kink communities. Together, we hit…

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How do you find other swingers? How do you find people to date? Those top a list of frequent questions we get on the Swingset. As outsiders looking in, as people curious to get started, we all wonder if we’ll be able to do this, because there’s that foreign concept in the middle. Finding people to fuck. Finding people to date. Finding people not just okay with open, but enthusiastic about it. Tonight, we talk about the pursuit, finding playmates, finding lovers. We recorded this podcast LIVE in front of our audience of patrons. We’re trying something new, if you…

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We’re back! We took the longest (only) hiatus in Swingset History and each of us has come back rested and ready. Today we discuss the blurring of the line between swinging and polyamory and how things tend to evolve in ways well beyond our expectations. [HAZINESS INTENSIFIES] We recorded this podcast LIVE in front of our audience of patrons. We’re trying something new, if you have comments on the audio quality please send that feedback to dylan@lifeontheswingset.com, whether it is “still excellent!” or “wholly inadequate”! Leave us a comment on this post or at contact@lifeontheswingset.com or leave us a voicemail…

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It’s Desire Week at Life on the Swingset, with 150 days and less than 25 rooms remaining for our 2016 Desire Takeover (November 5-12) we’re running Desire episodes of the podcast as well as blogs and articles. If you’d like to join us in Desire this November, head over to SSDesire.com! It’s booking fast! For this Desire Week special, Cooper offers five essays about Desire from the audiobook version of his memoir My Life on the Swingset: Adventures in Swinging & Polyamory for your enjoyment. Buy the audiobook here and use promo code DESIRE to save 10%.

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It’s Desire Week at Life on the Swingset, with 150 days and less than 25 rooms remaining for our 2016 Desire Takeover (November 5-12) we’re running Desire episodes of the podcast as well as blogs and articles. If you’d like to join us in Desire this November, head over to SSDesire.com! It’s booking fast! We took time out of our very hard and busy work schedules in Desire to record a discussion with JV and Shara of Ending the Sexual Dark Age as well as a couple dozen other sexy naked people, We discuss what Desire means to us, what…

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It’s Desire Week at Life on the Swingset, with 150 days and less than 25 rooms remaining for our 2016 Desire Takeover (November 5-12) we’re running Desire episodes of the podcast as well as blogs and articles. If you’d like to join us in Desire this November, head over to SSDesire.com! It’s booking fast! Vacations. Aren’t they great? But you know what’s better? SEXY VACATIONS. The kind where you can be naked and flirt all day and have sex all night. Or maybe you decide on an afternoon delight. Of course, on vacation, you have time for all of the…

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It’s Desire Week at Life on the Swingset, with 150 days and less than 25 rooms remaining for our 2016 Desire Takeover (November 5-12) we’re running Desire episodes of the podcast as well as blogs and articles. If you’d like to join us in Desire this November, head over to SSDesire.com! It’s booking fast! Ginger, Professor, Miko, Ronin, Ophilia, and Cooper are out of the office this week. They’ve jet off to paradise in Mexico at Desire Resort and Spa for a swinging vacation, the third annual Life on the Swingset Takes Desire. With 160 people along for the ride,…

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