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"Hi! We hope you've all had a lovely (and naughty) Christmas We're fairly new to swinging and very new to swinging as a couple so we're still puzzling things out. One thing we've noticed is that there are often few (if any) details/pics for the male half of some MF couples even when they are hoping to meet other MF couples. We just wanted to ask if this is just the norm? Although we've tried to write a balanced profile, we're not sure how successful we've been in doing that! Have to admit that it's a little disappointing for Em when a couple reach out but there isn't any info about the male half on a profile or in the message " We totally agree! Both for personal meets and for events (on both our profiles) it's annoying when a profile focuses on their lady. A lack of information and imagery of the hubby gives the impression that they believe the man to be less important, which reflects how they view other couples. We always want to see both, and read about both. | |||
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"One of the many disappointments for us is that we nearly always have to ask for pics of the male half , then if we don’t fancy him after pictures are sent it makes it awakward. We have stopped asking now and we generally only reply to people who have forwarded us a first message with pictures of both halves on . It’s not hard to take photos these days. We aren’t models but our photos clearly show us both in all kinds of situations they are decent and not fuzzy and mostly all taken with a phone . " Well said. | |||
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"The lady is the selling point so to speak. " That's true but it's also where it can get tricky for a straight couple. For "soft swing" or a "full swap" which is "played straight", the female half of a couple also has to be attracted to the male half of the other couple. It's not as tricky when it comes to a threesomes because only one person need to be sexually attracted to the third person, although all parties would still need to get along | |||
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"Hi! We hope you've all had a lovely (and naughty) Christmas We're fairly new to swinging and very new to swinging as a couple so we're still puzzling things out. One thing we've noticed is that there are often few (if any) details/pics for the male half of some MF couples even when they are hoping to meet other MF couples. We just wanted to ask if this is just the norm? Although we've tried to write a balanced profile, we're not sure how successful we've been in doing that! Have to admit that it's a little disappointing for Em when a couple reach out but there isn't any info about the male half on a profile or in the message " Totally agree, massively frustrating. Especially on profiles with hundreds of pics, flick through the lot and not one of the guy. No matter how hot the female is, we still wouldn’t meet without seeing the guy first. | |||
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"Hi! We hope you've all had a lovely (and naughty) Christmas We're fairly new to swinging and very new to swinging as a couple so we're still puzzling things out. One thing we've noticed is that there are often few (if any) details/pics for the male half of some MF couples even when they are hoping to meet other MF couples. We just wanted to ask if this is just the norm? Although we've tried to write a balanced profile, we're not sure how successful we've been in doing that! Have to admit that it's a little disappointing for Em when a couple reach out but there isn't any info about the male half on a profile or in the message " Completely agree. It is disappointing. We just say no thanks to such profiles now without going any further. Cat in a bag? - not for us. Mrs | |||
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"Let us cast a different perspective. We are a couple looking for a long term straight buddy for the Wife. Why would that "straight" male buddy care what the Hubby looked like???????" Because the op are looking for other couples. | |||
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"Let us cast a different perspective. We are a couple looking for a long term straight buddy for the Wife. Why would that "straight" male buddy care what the Hubby looked like???????" Your profile says looking for men only so they wouldn’t be mesagging you , and you wouldn’t be messaging them | |||
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"Hi! We hope you've all had a lovely (and naughty) Christmas We're fairly new to swinging and very new to swinging as a couple so we're still puzzling things out. One thing we've noticed is that there are often few (if any) details/pics for the male half of some MF couples even when they are hoping to meet other MF couples. We just wanted to ask if this is just the norm? Although we've tried to write a balanced profile, we're not sure how successful we've been in doing that! Have to admit that it's a little disappointing for Em when a couple reach out but there isn't any info about the male half on a profile or in the message " We always try and keep a decent amount of detail about B in our profile, be it pics or our text which reflects both of us? There's probably slightly more pics of P, but that's mainly down to the fact that B loves to wield a camera! | |||
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"Mr M doesn’t play with anyone else so we see no need to post pics of him. It’s there in our profile." But thats not the point of the OP lol. They are looking for couples. | |||
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"Mr M doesn’t play with anyone else so we see no need to post pics of him. It’s there in our profile. But thats not the point of the OP lol. They are looking for couples. " We are a couple but Mr M has no interest in playing with anyone else. Doesn’t make us not a couple, we are and we play as such but he doesn’t have any interest in others. | |||
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"Hi! We hope you've all had a lovely (and naughty) Christmas We're fairly new to swinging and very new to swinging as a couple so we're still puzzling things out. One thing we've noticed is that there are often few (if any) details/pics for the male half of some MF couples even when they are hoping to meet other MF couples. We just wanted to ask if this is just the norm? Although we've tried to write a balanced profile, we're not sure how successful we've been in doing that! Have to admit that it's a little disappointing for Em when a couple reach out but there isn't any info about the male half on a profile or in the message " Have a look at ours, we think it’s ok! | |||
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"One of the many disappointments for us is that we nearly always have to ask for pics of the male half , then if we don’t fancy him after pictures are sent it makes it awakward. We have stopped asking now and we generally only reply to people who have forwarded us a first message with pictures of both halves on . It’s not hard to take photos these days. We aren’t models but our photos clearly show us both in all kinds of situations they are decent and not fuzzy and mostly all taken with a phone . " We've met enough couples socially that do not have and to not send photos of the guy to know that a quick coffee and a no thanks is the only way its ever going to end. We no longer contact couples where there isn't photo's of both parties, and unless photo's of both parties are on the profile or are sent with their first message we won't reply to couples that contact us first. I'd rather watch paint dry than waste our time meeting someone I could have ruled out with a quick photo, and if someone is anticipating sticking their dick in my personal space its the absolute minimum I expect. | |||
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"As a male in a relashionship (we've also balanced our pofile best we can) I'd like to point out that men nowerdays also feel they have "body expectations" that we usually feel that we don't meet. Also we've been bombarded by messages in the day to day that no one want's to see our bodies unless we have six packs and no one wants to see us naked, while women (and i'm not complaining here) usually get nothing but praise if they are willing to show their bodies off. So we've split the difference, plenty of Gemma in and out of play and a few shots of me that are clear and hounest so you get an idea of what I really look like, but I can see why allot of other people would rather leave it until they've asked to save putting people off." This is all completely true, but as a couple we feel that it is important that potential meets can see what is on offer. For us, Anita isn't even too bothered about seeing naked pics, as long as there are a few that give a pretty good idea of build and reletive "fattness". Cal | |||
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"We have a few of the hubby on ours. We also hardly ever find any profiles with the photos male half or any likes for the hubbys photos on our own profile. Like mentioned above, we are both straight so the attraction when meeting another couple needs to be recripicated for all people involved. It’s a woman’s world. " I find that my pictures get a few fabs, and Anita does fab male photos too. I do only get about 10% of what Anita gets though. Cal | |||
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"We have a few of the hubby on ours. We also hardly ever find any profiles with the photos male half or any likes for the hubbys photos on our own profile. Like mentioned above, we are both straight so the attraction when meeting another couple needs to be recripicated for all people involved. It’s a woman’s world. I find that my pictures get a few fabs, and Anita does fab male photos too. I do only get about 10% of what Anita gets though. Cal" | |||
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"We regularly say this too and the amount of threads about it show that it must be a bit of an issue! I feel it just wastes time having to ask for pics of the M when it’s easy just to put at least one on. If the M is worried they’ll be put off after seeing pics of him then it’ll still be the same later on, difference being you’ve wasted our time by not having them on the profile in the first place! I have to fancy both so why would any couple think I’d be happy to play without having seen them both first?! TB" we prefer profiles with pic’s of both. As we only meet at clubs, it is less of an issue in the end, but we always share pic’s of us both beforehand. It seems reasonable to at least have some shots of the guy though | |||
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"It’s because the male half isn’t very attractive and for some reason they think by avoiding it it will be okay, sadly not. Not everyone is everyone’s taste and it’s even harder when In a couple I’ve experienced that myself that the female is nice but my partner says no about him* and what she says stands." | |||
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"I wish more couples would have pics of the male half... although on our profile there aren’t many of Mr P as he hates having his picture taken . However we usually send pics within the first 1-2 messages ! " Yeah this....some of us guys ain't as photogenic as the other halfs are kc | |||
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"We have a few of the hubby on ours. We also hardly ever find any profiles with the photos male half or any likes for the hubbys photos on our own profile. Like mentioned above, we are both straight so the attraction when meeting another couple needs to be recripicated for all people involved. It’s a woman’s world. I find that my pictures get a few fabs, and Anita does fab male photos too. I do only get about 10% of what Anita gets though. Cal" At 10% your doing a fuck load better then I ever did on any of our accounts kc | |||
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"Couples profile here but only I (female) play so no point having pics of my guy. " is to | |||
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"Couples profile here but only I (female) play so no point having pics of my guy. " Same as. Although he's present so we do send a face pic when exchanging messages. | |||
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"Couples profile here but only I (female) play so no point having pics of my guy. " Playing devils advocate shouldn't it be a single female profile then? If he's not involved in any way, doesn't use the site or the forums then why not just have your own profile? You'll show up in searches made by people searching for couples. A | |||
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"Couples profile here but only I (female) play so no point having pics of my guy. Playing devils advocate shouldn't it be a single female profile then? If he's not involved in any way, doesn't use the site or the forums then why not just have your own profile? You'll show up in searches made by people searching for couples. A" agree 100%...our view is a couples profile are for those couples that both play | |||
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"Couples profile here but only I (female) play so no point having pics of my guy. Playing devils advocate shouldn't it be a single female profile then? If he's not involved in any way, doesn't use the site or the forums then why not just have your own profile? You'll show up in searches made by people searching for couples. A agree 100%...our view is a couples profile are for those couples that both play" Agree too | |||
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"I reckon if it’s all about the woman then swerve. We’ve more than once been approached by a “couple” which turned out to be a guy posting pics of his partner." Yeah. Then they ask to Kik message. When first message comes from male I ask all parties be in group chat. Slowly he disappears. Hmmmm | |||
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"Couples profile here but only I (female) play so no point having pics of my guy. Playing devils advocate shouldn't it be a single female profile then? A" Not if the man goes to the meets with her. | |||
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"Couples profile here but only I (female) play so no point having pics of my guy. Playing devils advocate shouldn't it be a single female profile then? A Not if the man goes to the meets with her. " what about a female profile but with profile text explaining accompanied with husband that does not play | |||
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"Couples profile here but only I (female) play so no point having pics of my guy. Playing devils advocate shouldn't it be a single female profile then? A Not if the man goes to the meets with her. " Of course. But if he doesn't then surely it's just a married/partnered person playing alone. There's plenty of those on site using single male/female profiles. A | |||
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"Couples profile here but only I (female) play so no point having pics of my guy. Playing devils advocate shouldn't it be a single female profile then? A Not if the man goes to the meets with her. Of course. But if he doesn't then surely it's just a married/partnered person playing alone. There's plenty of those on site using single male/female profiles. A" Her husband is a voyeur and watches the play When we played the OH used to do that sometimes too, but it was still both of us meeting. He also never posts on the forum either . If she had a single profile that says she meets with her husband then it would be reported as a couple profile and Admin would change it to a couple. | |||
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"One of the many disappointments for us is that we nearly always have to ask for pics of the male half , then if we don’t fancy him after pictures are sent it makes it awakward. We have stopped asking now and we generally only reply to people who have forwarded us a first message with pictures of both halves on . It’s not hard to take photos these days. We aren’t models but our photos clearly show us both in all kinds of situations they are decent and not fuzzy and mostly all taken with a phone . I reckon that's exactly why they don't have pics of the man on their profile. They know he will put people off meeting them. Once they've sent pics of him they hope the other couple will feel too bad to turn them down and meet them anyway. " Yep I reckon that how we got all our meets | |||
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"I reckon that's exactly why they don't have pics of the man on their profile. They know he will put people off meeting them. Once they've sent pics of him they hope the other couple will feel too bad to turn them down and meet them anyway. " Maybe we are screwed for other reasons then (namely Bob looks amazing naked, and is generally gorgeous to look at and I'm a minger ) | |||
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"For us (when we’re not hibernating like at the moment ) there is no point,since we’re looking for straight guys and nothing else" Good luck with that on here then! | |||
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"Don't understand the point of not showing both members of the couple. People can see both of us and decided there or then to message us or not xx We are not everyone's cup of tea so why string people along xx" Couldn't agree more, what you see is what you...Ah, the familiar sound of mass screaming to the hills! | |||
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"Don't understand the point of not showing both members of the couple. People can see both of us and decided there or then to message us or not xx We are not everyone's cup of tea so why string people along xx" If we were everyone's cup of tea, we'd be mugs | |||
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"Hi! We hope you've all had a lovely (and naughty) Christmas We're fairly new to swinging and very new to swinging as a couple so we're still puzzling things out. One thing we've noticed is that there are often few (if any) details/pics for the male half of some MF couples even when they are hoping to meet other MF couples. We just wanted to ask if this is just the norm? Although we've tried to write a balanced profile, we're not sure how successful we've been in doing that! Have to admit that it's a little disappointing for Em when a couple reach out but there isn't any info about the male half on a profile or in the message We totally agree! Both for personal meets and for events (on both our profiles) it's annoying when a profile focuses on their lady. A lack of information and imagery of the hubby gives the impression that they believe the man to be less important, which reflects how they view other couples. We always want to see both, and read about both. " | |||
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"Don't understand the point of not showing both members of the couple. People can see both of us and decided there or then to message us or not xx We are not everyone's cup of tea so why string people along xx Couldn't agree more, what you see is what you...Ah, the familiar sound of mass screaming to the hills!" No screaming here Grin xxx | |||
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"Don't understand the point of not showing both members of the couple. People can see both of us and decided there or then to message us or not xx We are not everyone's cup of tea so why string people along xx If we were everyone's cup of tea, we'd be mugs " Lmao xxxx | |||
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"For us (when we’re not hibernating like at the moment ) there is no point,since we’re looking for straight guys and nothing else Good luck with that on here then! " | |||
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