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The History of Swinging - Do you ever wonder?

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By *otSoNewWalesCouple OP   Couple
over a year ago

South Wales

While nobody would suggest swinging is a modern phenomenon, it's certainly been helped by websites like this and social media.

So the question is; how did swingers get by in the pre-internet days?

How did our parents manage to arrange meets?

Ewwww! I just put an image in my mind I'm not sure I like!

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

Keys in a bowl

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By *LIRTWITHUSCouple
over a year ago

Chester

Adverts in paper

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

roman orgies

and i bet before then

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By *otSoNewWalesCouple OP   Couple
over a year ago

South Wales

I remember Forum magazine from the 80s. Bit of a giveaway when you took a copy to the newsagents' counter.

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By *is vixen at playCouple
over a year ago

Dundee


"While nobody would suggest swinging is a modern phenomenon, it's certainly been helped by websites like this and social media.

So the question is; how did swingers get by in the pre-internet days?

How did our parents manage to arrange meets?

Ewwww! I just put an image in my mind I'm not sure I like! "

Or worse, imagine going to a club and bumping in to your folks lol.

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By *e enjoy esxMan
over a year ago

grimsby

used to be a monthly magazine called forum. you put an add in there . the ones who replied then sent a letter into the mag. who forwarded them on to you so you could contact them. from sending in the add to getting replies could be six weeks,

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By *ackardMan
over a year ago

North West & beyond

I was listening to a local radio presenter who mentioned that in the early sixties her parents where invited to party at a neighbours house. Part way through the night a bowl appeared and everyone started putting their keys in. At that point they sussed what was going on and chose to leave!

I'd guess this may have been common place, you got invited to a party held by a friend of a friend and if it wasn't your thing you bid a hasty reatreat.

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By *ackardMan
over a year ago

North West & beyond

There used to be a free ads paper in the late 80's & early 90's called LOOT. I think it might still be going on line actually. Anyway there was a section in there where swingers could advertised and you replied by either writing to PO Box address or calling a voicemail which was a premium rate number.

My first ever arranged meet with a couple was through a LOOT advert.

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

Perhaps the most reliable means was the monthly contact magazine called "Rendezvous", eventually published with colour pix and the "posting referral service" they provided was also reliable . . . what wasn't "reliable" was the genuineness of those advertising, all the gripes you read about here are as old as the hills.

These contact mag's could also be a bit of a money maker too, the publishers couldn't verify the advertiser so many of the "solo females" were fakes who, having placed a free advert, then raked in a good reward by re-using the stamped SAE's they got in responses. Once worked with a guy doing video for the Adult Market who claimed he regularly made about £50 per month in unused stamps!

Some of the smaller contact mags actually put up their own fake "solo female" advert's just to get for free the stamps they used in sending out the replies!!

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

I used to place an ad in a weekly paper called Freeads. You had to ring the paper to place the ad, then ring a premium rate number to record a message, then ring another premium rate number to see if you had any replies. I used to get to meet one or sometimes two couples per ad, I got more meets than I do on here!

Rendezvous seemed to be more working girls advertising than actual swingers.

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By *ackardMan
over a year ago

North West & beyond


"Perhaps the most reliable means was the monthly contact magazine called "Rendezvous", eventually published with colour pix and the "posting referral service" they provided was also reliable . . . what wasn't "reliable" was the genuineness of those advertising, all the gripes you read about here are as old as the hills.

These contact mag's could also be a bit of a money maker too, the publishers couldn't verify the advertiser so many of the "solo females" were fakes who, having placed a free advert, then raked in a good reward by re-using the stamped SAE's they got in responses. Once worked with a guy doing video for the Adult Market who claimed he regularly made about £50 per month in unused stamps!

Some of the smaller contact mags actually put up their own fake "solo female" advert's just to get for free the stamps they used in sending out the replies!! "

I remember Rendezvous, I first came across a copy of it discarded on the pavement on my way home from school when I was about 15/16.

Some of the ads in it had direct contact numbers, they where always the ones for single females who where basicly call girls/escorts rather than genuine swingers.

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By *carlettxWoman
over a year ago

Essex


"While nobody would suggest swinging is a modern phenomenon, it's certainly been helped by websites like this and social media.

So the question is; how did swingers get by in the pre-internet days?

How did our parents manage to arrange meets?

Ewwww! I just put an image in my mind I'm not sure I like! "

Should imagine it was ads in magazines etc , but if a secret society like the film Eyes wide shut

And who can forget the old pampas grass .. still have fun pointing it out when out and about

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

We found some of our old contact magazines at the weekend. The earliest was 2001.

It was interesting to note that the majority of pictures showed pubic hair.

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By *otSoNewWalesCouple OP   Couple
over a year ago

South Wales

It would make an interesting article... Swinging before the Internet.

Quite hard to research I expect as it's a secretive world by definition.

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By *oward1978Man
over a year ago

Rotherham


"We found some of our old contact magazines at the weekend. The earliest was 2001.

It was interesting to note that the majority of pictures showed pubic hair."

Being a bit of a connoisseur of such things I own a few old contact magazines myself. They date back to the 70s and 80s. It's basically Fab in magazine form...but with more bush!

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By *eicsbimaleMan
over a year ago

Loughborough

My ex and I used contact mags from the late 70's until the internet thingy took over, worked pretty well although snail mail meant that meets had to be well planned in advanced but we did have a few good dirty weekends away

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex


"We found some of our old contact magazines at the weekend. The earliest was 2001.

It was interesting to note that the majority of pictures showed pubic hair.

Being a bit of a connoisseur of such things I own a few old contact magazines myself. They date back to the 70s and 80s. It's basically Fab in magazine form...but with more bush!"

Yep. Polaroid cameras were a huge asset too.

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By *otlovefun42Couple
over a year ago

Costa Blanca Spain...


"There used to be a free ads paper in the late 80's & early 90's called LOOT. I think it might still be going on line actually. Anyway there was a section in there where swingers could advertised and you replied by either writing to PO Box address or calling a voicemail which was a premium rate number.

My first ever arranged meet with a couple was through a LOOT advert."

Mine too which led to my first ever swinger club visit.

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By *oward1978Man
over a year ago

Rotherham


"We found some of our old contact magazines at the weekend. The earliest was 2001.

It was interesting to note that the majority of pictures showed pubic hair.

Being a bit of a connoisseur of such things I own a few old contact magazines myself. They date back to the 70s and 80s. It's basically Fab in magazine form...but with more bush!

Yep. Polaroid cameras were a huge asset too."

Very true. In fact, I wonder how long it took most people who bought a polaroid camera before they had it out of the box and were taking pics of their naked spouse or their own genitals? I imagine it was the reason why a lot of people bought one. It certainly wasn't for the picture quality. Come to think of it, Polaroid basically helped to invent the dick pic. For decades whole generations of men could only dream of one day being able to take and own a photo of their own wang. Polaroid...you have a lot to answer for.

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By *orseydaveMan
over a year ago

Norfolk

with me it was via forum magazine. Then sending a letter to a PO Box No. with a SAE and sitting back and waiting.

The downside was you didnt know what part of the country the couple lived in, but in the whole a lot more polite and decent people then, nowadays the Jeremy Kyle-Style swingers must be thankful for the internet as writing a letter would have been beyond them

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By *otlovefun42Couple
over a year ago

Costa Blanca Spain...


"We found some of our old contact magazines at the weekend. The earliest was 2001.

It was interesting to note that the majority of pictures showed pubic hair.

Being a bit of a connoisseur of such things I own a few old contact magazines myself. They date back to the 70s and 80s. It's basically Fab in magazine form...but with more bush!

Yep. Polaroid cameras were a huge asset too.

Very true. In fact, I wonder how long it took most people who bought a polaroid camera before they had it out of the box and were taking pics of their naked spouse or their own genitals? I imagine it was the reason why a lot of people bought one. It certainly wasn't for the picture quality. Come to think of it, Polaroid basically helped to invent the dick pic. For decades whole generations of men could only dream of one day being able to take and own a photo of their own wang. Polaroid...you have a lot to answer for."

Very true.

But after a few years they all looked like they had jaundice.

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By *otSoNewWalesCouple OP   Couple
over a year ago

South Wales

You gotta wonder how much of the Internet is taken up by dick pics.

Quite a few floppy discs worth.

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By *ieutenantMan
over a year ago

london

i must confess Rendezvous.Connexction, and Desire magazine were the early pioneer of swingiing lifestyle.i still have the early copy of 1977 Rendezvous with late Mary Millington ad on.Before her untimely death on the 19th August 1979.

As for Cuckold sex.loots- weekly paper was the best.

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By *ex God and Sex KittenCouple
over a year ago

Planet kitten, North East usually but occasionally South as well

In my younger days Loot was the go to for people like me who hid their bi side from everyone.

It was basically a selling paper so you could always pretend you were looking to buy something from it, like a car, but I was always more interested in the contact section at the back.

My first ever 3some was organised through the Loot paper.

SG x

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


"with me it was via forum magazine. Then sending a letter to a PO Box No. with a SAE and sitting back and waiting.

The downside was you didnt know what part of the country the couple lived in, but in the whole a lot more polite and decent people then, nowadays the Jeremy Kyle-Style swingers must be thankful for the internet as writing a letter would have been beyond them"

Illiterate people shouldn't be swingers?

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By *ldestswingerintownMan
over a year ago

Lancaster

The contact magazines were going from the late 1960's onwards - I remember my first meets were via a contact mag in 1969. But yes, the majority of women advertising were in fact "working girls".

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

lol I remember forum and I was only a kid, must of been ingrained in me?

Think swinging went back to Greek times.

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


"There used to be a free ads paper in the late 80's & early 90's called LOOT. I think it might still be going on line actually. Anyway there was a section in there where swingers could advertised and you replied by either writing to PO Box address or calling a voicemail which was a premium rate number.

My first ever arranged meet with a couple was through a LOOT advert."

Same here

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By *sGivesWoodWoman
over a year ago

ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL


"used to be a monthly magazine called forum. you put an add in there . the ones who replied then sent a letter into the mag. who forwarded them on to you so you could contact them. from sending in the add to getting replies could be six weeks, "
about the same here then

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