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What did swingers do before the internet?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Obviously straight people have always had affairs, and gay people have gone cruising for sex, but how did swingers meet before sites like this? On gardeners' question time one guy says pampas grass in the front garden was a sign that the residents were swingers hahaha I've heard about people in the 1970s putting car keys in a pile and drawing one at random to choose your partner at sex parties, but is this true? How did swingers meet before the net???

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Contact magazines

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By *agneto.Man
over a year ago

Bham

Wank.

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By *merican WomanWoman
over a year ago

live by the Pool xx

Clubs

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town


"Obviously straight people have always had affairs, and gay people have gone cruising for sex, but how did swingers meet before sites like this? On gardeners' question time one guy says pampas grass in the front garden was a sign that the residents were swingers hahaha I've heard about people in the 1970s putting car keys in a pile and drawing one at random to choose your partner at sex parties, but is this true? How did swingers meet before the net???

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Postal orders, photos and letters and stamped addressed envelopes. Cut and paste wasn't a thing.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Wanked into the argos catalogue.

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull

Garden centres to see who was buying pampas Grass or driving around looking for pampas grass owners

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The wife pretended to cheat while the husband hid in the cupboard.

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By *heVonMatterhornsCouple
over a year ago

Lincoln

Stick a box of OMO in the window.

LvM

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Personal ads in newspapers.

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By *heGigglersCouple
over a year ago

Stourbridge

Planted a pampas grass and waited for someone to knock the door

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By *heVonMatterhornsCouple
over a year ago

Lincoln

Book a plumber to sort out their pipes.

LvM

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By *merican WomanWoman
over a year ago

live by the Pool xx

They went to clubs...like normal people

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By *ex HolesMan
over a year ago

Up North

They grew pampas grass

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By *bi HaiveMan
Forum Mod
over a year ago

Cheeseville, Somerset


"Obviously straight people have always had affairs, and gay people have gone cruising for sex, but how did swingers meet before sites like this? On gardeners' question time one guy says pampas grass in the front garden was a sign that the residents were swingers hahaha I've heard about people in the 1970s putting car keys in a pile and drawing one at random to choose your partner at sex parties, but is this true? How did swingers meet before the net???

Postal orders, photos and letters and stamped addressed envelopes. Cut and paste wasn't a thing. "

Cut and paste was a thing. It just meant snipping Polaroid photos and glueing the envelope shut in the hope the pics and letter didn't fall out whilst being delivered or end up on the sorting office notice board....

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By *eah BabyCouple
over a year ago

Cheshire, Windermere ,Cumbria

We started off with a holiday to Hedo 20+ years ago, we went every year from then and just had fun there until we met some friends there who had house party’s and introduced us to clubs, then someone at a club recommended Fab

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By *idnight RamblerMan
over a year ago

Pershore

Pampas grass in the front garden. Still works well, just knock on the door and ask.

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

Contact magazines with a p.o. box.

I worked for a publication that ran these ads on the back pages and operated the p.o. boxes. It was very popular

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By *oeBeansMan
over a year ago

Derby

Upside down pineapple in the window

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By *arlomaleMan
over a year ago

darlington

Washing powder in the window on the pad estates (army humour)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Walked around with an upside down pineapple

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

None of the pampas and keys is actually real.

Who would pick a set of car keys not knowing who you would end up with ?

Metro ....

https://metro.co.uk/2015/05/16/who-needs-tinder-hilarious-pictures-of-1960s-swinger-adverts-5200339/

Full face pics and decent descriptions.... and plenty left to the imagination. That is if your mind isn't boggling.

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town


"None of the pampas and keys is actually real.

Who would pick a set of car keys not knowing who you would end up with ?

Metro ....

https://metro.co.uk/2015/05/16/who-needs-tinder-hilarious-pictures-of-1960s-swinger-adverts-5200339/

Full face pics and decent descriptions.... and plenty left to the imagination. That is if your mind isn't boggling.

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Well that was the thing.. If you're coughing up for stamps and photo prints and waiting weeks for a reply... You invested a bit more effort in the letters that were written... Imagine opening an envelope with a sheet of paper in. Unfolding it full of excitement and expectation and it just had "hi" written on it...

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By *entleman JayMan
over a year ago

Wakefield

At a club I got talking to a member of staff behind the bar. They told me the story of how they got into the scene. They put an advert in a contact magazine. They had literally sack loads of replies. Lol.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I remember asking this question more than a year back. I guess there were magazine ads and some private parties through "contacts"

I bet it would have been lot more of a thrill those days

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By *arvest 84Man
over a year ago

SCAWBY, NEAR , BRIGG.

in the 1970s

i can remember seeing adds in the local weekly paper,

men looking for women , , women looking for men, , women looking for women , , po box -------

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By *rlandoMan
over a year ago

Yorks/Lincs

free ads, or the yellow , back pages was full of ads , couples looking , etc... met my first threesome there, I was about 21 I think ...

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By *escourtesMan
over a year ago

hereford

Surfed inline

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By *escourtesMan
over a year ago

hereford

Exchange and Mart..

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By *etwifeandhim69Couple
over a year ago

Darlington

We started swinging in the 90s without any help from.the net. It all started by my wife having one drink to many and telling her freind that she had a massive fantasy about me fucking another woman....and her freind said she was down for it.

So drink and random chance got us started.

After that we looked into what our options where for moving forward and meeting likeminded couples and our options where swinger based magazines and doing things by post or the Internet (this being before most people had digital cameras).

There where clubs as well but none we knew of that where within 100 miles of us (at the time).

We went with the internet which involved posting Polaroids till people started buying digital cameras anyway (we started right at the point that change started to hapoen) lol.

But where there was a will, there was a way and we found a way before fab came along.

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By *entBarryUKMan
over a year ago

Ashford

An ex gf told me that her street in Cannock used be known as the swingers street as they would all wife swap in the evenings. No pampas grass though.....

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By *entBarryUKMan
over a year ago

Ashford


"We started swinging in the 90s without any help from.the net. It all started by my wife having one drink to many and telling her freind that she had a massive fantasy about me fucking another woman....and her freind said she was down for it.

So drink and random chance got us started.

After that we looked into what our options where for moving forward and meeting likeminded couples and our options where swinger based magazines and doing things by post or the Internet (this being before most people had digital cameras).

There where clubs as well but none we knew of that where within 100 miles of us (at the time).

We went with the internet which involved posting Polaroids till people started buying digital cameras anyway (we started right at the point that change started to hapoen) lol.

But where there was a will, there was a way and we found a way before fab came along.

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This is brilliant!

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By *entBarryUKMan
over a year ago

Ashford


"Walked around with an upside down pineapple "

What is this pineapple thing?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

posted pics in Readers Wives

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