Origin of the word 'swinger'

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By *ip and Megan OP Couple
over a year ago

Manchester

Does anybody know the etymology of swinger/swinging? I'm thinking the word first started being used in the seventies - but why? A hangover from the 'swinging sixties' ....or 'swinging from the chandeliers'? ....discuss....

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By *ere-for-my-convenienceWoman
over a year ago

West Midlands

I always believed it to have originated from the Joan Collins movie's The Stud and The Bitch

There's a famous scene where she's in a swing over the indoor pool?

That's what I've thought the swing gave swinging it's name...

Or am I wrong?

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By *ere-for-my-convenienceWoman
over a year ago

West Midlands

I've just asked yahoo

They said the sexual freedom league in Berkeley USA coined the phrase first in the 60's

Although it actually started without the term swinging in the 1940's among USA pilots whose shortened mortality led them to live in the moment and the remaining or surviving men serviced the widows

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