The history of the word "swinging" was previously called wife swapping but the "wife swappers" which came from non-other than our very own US and British Military. In the 1930's wife swaping was part of air force life in England as fallen soilders wifes where accepted into neighbors relationships, the newly widowed wives would seek sexual satisfaction from their hosts. This lead the way to the widows being "passed" around to other single men in the troup. In the years that followed it was uncommon for a wife (non-widow) of an officer to accompany other men, married or single into a sexual relationship. Although these relationships would be considered polyamory at that time. As "wife swapping" gained popularity and media attention in the 50's, the activity was changed to "swinging" and more recently "The Lifestyle" or polyamory.

Swinging amongst U.S. Air Force fighter pilots during World War II was widespread do to that fact that their fatality rate was the highest of any branch of service. This led to an unusual social development in which non-monogamy between pilots' wives and other pilots became a suitable social behavior. Arrangements of this new social behavior persist, even today its not uncommon in military.

We've heard that there were "key clubs" where husbands reportedly tossed their house keys into a hat where the keys would be drawn at random by the wives. The owner of a selected key was the sexual partner for the evening. This was the start of the what became the "wife swapping" phenomena which also help lead us to some of the sex games or adult games that we have played at swinger parties.

Swinging has always been about couples - with today's advancing sexual society marriage has become less important so non-married "couples" have been accepted along with single males and females. However, some swingers still prefer to participate with married couples.

The advent of new sexual openness, (slow but sure) has allowed many bi women, bi couples and bi men into the swinger lifestyle. There are now clubs and online dating services dedicated to open bisexuality in men, women and couples.

Africa, Iran, Egypt, China and Japan are among many countries that have had "swinging" lifestyles in it's history for centuries. In France, during Queen Marie's time, the queen had wild sex orgies every week, mmm, sounds alot like a swinger club to me, but the fun for Queen Marie was cut short for she lost her head in a battle with a guillotine. :-(

The Roman Empire had great sex palaces with only one purpose, sex or swinger parties!!! Games where played to see who did what to whom and for how long. While on lookers enjoyed the fruits of their partners or themselves;-).

Ben Franklin was known to be a nudist and enjoying his sexuality by "swinging", I mean really swinging on a swing in the nude. I'm not sure if I totally believe that statement and if I could quote it I would. If I find the source I'll let you know.

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Today we attend swinger parties and swinger clubs where the hosts create some wild and fun adult sex games to break the ice between couples and singles. For those new to swinging the most difficult part is going from clothes on to clothes off and enjoying what other people have to offer. The two hottest swinger games on the market is Flaunt It by Intimate Associates adult Swingers Sex Games and Nookie by a british mfg I think. We've played both and found flaunt it to be the perfect swingers game to break the ice between couples or groups, I beet the Greeks and Romans never played like this..LOL.

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Strip Uno or Flaunt It as they called it is a hot sexy game made by swingers for swingers