Life on the Swingset - The Swinging & Polyamory Podcast

How did kissing become so complicated… again? Swinger culture still features a choice, to kiss or not to kiss, that other non-monogamous folk don't usually make. These days, the...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/29199/401-kissing-is-taboo-again-elevator-speeches-safety/

Dylan, Ginger, Tonia, and Prof get back together to properly toast Life on the Swingset's 400th episode! The crew invites back Lunabelle, Tyler, and Tonya, and welcomes D into the...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/29190/400-reemergence/

Ginger, Prof, Tonia, and Dylan get together on a normal Friday in February 2021 to plan a podcast about swinging… and almost fall into the trap of talking about swinging. Swings...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/29183/ss-399-we-go-meta-on-swinging-and-making-the-sausage-and-talk-sex-toys-from-friday-night-delights-from-february-5th-2021/

Princess Vi and I talk about what it means to build pop-up inclusive, welcoming, and sex friendly communities, and we wander about discussing what goes into that secret sauce… a...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/29177/ss-398-swingset-as-a-place-with-princess-vi/

Continuing on from Part 1 of our live podcast on our trip in Cancun, Ginger initiates a tonal shift, Keeley makes sure everyone knows that more than gang bangs happen, Cooper tal...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/29166/ss-397-and-at-least-one-amorous-bird-on-this-resort-swingset-takes-desire-2022-part-2/

Swingset is a place, at least that's how we think of it today. We created the Swingset Community for the tenth time at Desire Resort in Cancun, QR, MX, and gathered our attendees ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/29158/ss-396-what-sets-us-apart-brings-us-together-swingset-takes-desire-2022-part-1/

Ginger, The Professor, Mike Joseph, Tonia, and Dylan get together for a Friday Night Delights recorded on June 25th to share some sexy stories and talk about growing relationships...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/29144/ss-395-the-trouble-with-tribbing-a-sexy-story-share/

Tonia and Dylan sat down at the Half-Baked Homestead, lovingly put together by Rapunzel, Colin, and Oengus, to talk about what Swingset gatherings mean (if anything) and what we t...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/29127/ss-394-camp-swingset-live-at-the-half-baked-homestead/

Life on the Swingset returns to Cancún to retake Desire in 2021!  Special guests Eve Rickert and Lyndzi and co-hosts Mike Joseph and Keeley join Cooper , Tonia , and Dylan ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/29114/ss-393-swingset-takes-desire-2021-live-in-cancun/

We continue the conversation from SS 388: The Power of Witness in Relationship Therapy, by sliding into how intimacy has changed over the last couple of years. Dylan , Ryan , and...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/29104/ss-392-personal-stories-on-changing-intimacy-over-the-last-two-years-a-friday-night-delights-conversation-with-catherine/

We made it to Desire in 2021 and decided to take the temperature of the room… the very, very hot room that we couldn't turn the air conditioning on in because it would have ruin...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/27391/the-desire-mid-week-check-in-featuring-co-hosts-mike-joseph-and-keeley/

With this episode, we emerge from our reduced pandemic release schedule where our focus was on virtual Swingset community events to connect and sustain us through challenging time...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/29070/ss-390-things-can-be-messy-but-things-dont-have-to-be-toxic/

Join Dylan , Ryan aka Prof , and Ginger in a nerdy discussion about sexuality data and human behavior. Simone and Malcolm Collins, the authors of The Pragmatist’s Guide series...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/29048/ss-389-nerdy-banter-with-simone-and-malcolm-the-pragmatists-guide-to-sexuality/

Join Dylan , Ryan , and Ginger as they host Catherine of Expansive Connection. Catherine offers her perspective on relationship therapy and her Power of Witness experience. It c...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/29036/ss-388-the-power-of-witness-in-relationship-therapy-with-catherine/

Shawn Coleman and Kevin Patterson join Ginger Bentham , Ryan Bentham , and Dylan Thomas , to discuss consent. They talk practicing consent in every day life. “Consent has to...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/29022/ss-387-euretic-consent-with-shawn-coleman-and-kevin-patterson/

Tonia , Dylan , Ryan the Prof , and Ginger unwind with the Swingsetters after a busy workweek to delight in the Delights on a Friday night for an eclectic array of conversations....

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/28923/ss-386-thank-you-betty-dodson-on-bodysex-and-more-friday-night-delights-2020-08-14-part-2/

Ginger , Tonia , Ryan aka Prof , and Dylan get together for a night of Friday Night Drinking and Delights and accidentally have a deep conversation about desire, shame, selfishne...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/29002/ss-385-the-shame-of-desire-and-jealousy-the-consideration-of-risk-friday-night-delights/

Shame kinks. Pubic hair. Quarantine Partners. Australia. We're covering all our bases today with GINGER BENTHAM , DYLAN THOMAS , COOPER S. BECKETT, THE PROFESSOR , and ANGELA AND...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/28991/ss-384-a-is-for-adequate-friday-night-delights-with-cooper-bradford-and-angela-2020-06-26/

RUBY JOHNSON LCSW takes over Life on the Swingset and brings DR. JUSTIN CLARDY , THOMAS of wearibukun.com and Vision By Thomas ,  CHARITA MARIE , and JHEN from the Monogamish P...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/28956/ss-383-black-and-poly-in-these-times/

It's clear from Life on the Swingset reviews that the first episode people listen to greatly shape opinions about the show. If this is your first, getting angry over gangbangs bei...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/28942/ss-382-my-damn-gangbang-got-cancelled-by-covid-friday-night-delights-2020-04-17/

Ella Dawson joins Ginger , the Professor , and Dylan to discuss reactions to people with / without COVID-19, and how it may affect public discussion surrounding STIs and stigma ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/28930/ss-381-covid-19-and-sti-stigma-with-ella-dawson-friday-night-delights-2020-05-22/

Coming off an episode about snowballs, needles in clits, and edibles, Ginger , Prof , and Dylan attempt to drink more and largely fail as Ginger's computer died, Prof laughed, an...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/28924/ss-380-5-an-edible-sized-multiorgasmic-nonejaculatory-minisode-friday-night-delights-2020-04-10-part-2/

Another night in April, another Friday Night Delights! Dylan , Ginger , and The Professor get together and talk butt stuff, pins in clits, drinks and edibles, and somehow find wa...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/28901/ss-380-a-sensual-snowball-behind-my-back-friday-night-delights-2020-04-10-part-one/

Dylan , Cooper , Ryan , and Ginger found their way out into the frozen landscape of Omaha in January in search of meat, tantalizing steaks that is. During this Swingset field tri...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/28889/ss-379-the-hangover-krazy-winter-nights-steakhouse-postshow/

Our April 3rd Friday Night Delights with the Swingset has proven quite fertile. Mr. and Mrs. H (@BedHoppersUK ) sign off after fucking while podcasting while Tonia (@tonia_swingse...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/28865/ss-378-dont-invest-in-the-rest-invest-in-the-sex-also-malort-friday-night-delights-2020-04-03-part-3/

Our April 3rd Friday Night Lights with the Swingset episode continues featuring Dylan Thomas , Mr. and Mrs. H (The Bedhoppers ), Angela, Bradford and Ian (By the Bi ), and Lunabel...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/28863/ss-377-shaving-with-straight-razors-and-podcasting-harder-friday-night-delights-2020-04-03-part-2/

Today's episode was recorded live in front of a PATRON SUPPORTER live audience! As part of our Friday Night Delights series, Mister and Mrs H, Angela, Bradford, and Ian The Gentl...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/28861/ss-376-the-british-commonwealth-bidet-invasion-friday-night-delights-2020-04-03/

Ginger Bentham and Dylan Thomas get together with Swingset patrons to connect about connection, both with the people around us and in our communities. In uncertain times, we're ma...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/28851/ss-375-connection-and-love-during-unprecedented-times-friday-night-delights-with-the-swingset/

Dylan and Ginger host Kevin Patterson and Dr. Liz Powell to discuss their new educational project: Unf_ck Your Polyamory . Whether it is relating to metamours, balancing time ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/28839/ss-374-unf_ck-your-polyamory-with-dr-liz-and-kevin-patterson/

Ginger Bentham , Ryan (The Professor) Bentham , Dylan Thomas , and Cooper S. Beckett braved the great white northern territories of Maine and Chicago to travel to the great white...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/28835/ss-373-pushing-your-boundaries-live-at-krazy-winter-nights-2020/

Dylan , Ryan , and Ginger invite Emma and Fin from Normalizing Non-monogamy onto the Swingset to discuss finding quality information about how to open your relationship. When g...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/28813/ss-372-finding-quality-information-about-open-relationships-with-emma-and-fin/

Ginger, Ryan , Dylan , and Cooper get together on Krazy Winter Nights 2020 eve, grab some Denny's, and … a convertrainwreck follows. Help support LIFE ON THE SWINGSET contin...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/28804/ss-371-the-whole-damn-preshow-live-before-krazy-winter-nights-2020/

Dylan and Ginger invite Lunabelle and Tikva, of Kimchi Cuddles , to talk parenting: what it is like to parent solo when you are polyamorous and what it's like to be solo polyam...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/28790/ss-370-parenting-while-solo-polyamorous-and-more/

Dylan , Tonia , Ginger , Ryan the Prof , and Lunabelle share their experiences with incorporating sex toys into play. The weird, the intimidating, the playful, and the practical,...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/28787/ss-369-a-sex-toy-story/

Bex Caputo and Kevin Patterson join Dylan and Ginger on the Swingset to give perspectives on some listener questions. From sharing you are polyamorous with your partner for th...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/28752/ss-368-gangbang-the-mailbag-40-more-action-with-bex-and-kevin/

That Swingset mailbag we all know and love was getting pretty full of listener questions. And since there is always a swing available on the Swingset, Dylan and Ginger invited B...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/28745/ss-367-gangbang-the-mailbag-39-with-bex-caputo-and-kevin-patterson/

A resort full of Swingsetters walks into an oceanside gazebo…as you may imagine chaos and heartfelt moments ensue. Amidst the sea of sexies, Dylan , Ginger , and Cooper reflect...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/28730/ss-366-swingset-takes-desire-8-0-live-at-desire-resort-spa-in-cancun/

Dylan , Tonia , Ginger , Ryan , Ophelia , and Cooper arrive early to the gorgeous ocean-side live podcast venue. They host Mr and Mrs H, the Bedhoppers , and Angela and Bradford ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/28728/ss-365-podcast-gangbang-in-paradise-feat-by-the-bi-and-the-bedhoppers/

Dylan , Tonia , Ryan the Prof , and Ginger fall into a few stolen moments on the eighth annual Swingset Takes Desire trip. With the sounds of the ocean and the hot tub in the ba...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/28711/ss-364-dispatches-from-desire/

Join Dylan , Tonia , Ginger , Ryan (aka Prof) , and the Swinger Doc as they storytell and anticipate the eighth Swingset Takes Desire trip . This annual bacchanal brings with it...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/28699/ss-363-premature-desirejaculation/

Dylan , Tonia , Ginger , and Ryan (aka Prof) are excited to invite the Swinger Doc back onto the Swingset. As the Swinger Doc says, “Be safe but be sexy!” Stewarding your se...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/28697/ss-362-keeping-the-sexy-in-risk-aware-sex/

Dylan , Ginger , and Ryan present live in front of an audience at Naughty in N'awlins . Not your typical swinger convention topic, the trio share their heartfelt stories about lo...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/28643/ss-360-sustaining-open-relationships-through-lifes-challenges-part-one-live-at-naughty2019/

Dylan , Ginger , and Ryan present live in front of an audience at Naughty in N'awlins for part two of their panel, Sustaining Open Relationships through Life's Challenges. Not y...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/28660/ss-361-sustaining-open-relationships-through-lifes-challenges-part-two-live-at-naughty2019/

Dylan and Ginger hang out with the Swingset patrons for a live podcast of reviews, listener questions, and some ridiculousness. Ryan The Professor makes his way into this episo...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/28551/ss-359-reviews-and-riffin/

Dylan , Ginger , and Cooper presented in front of a live audience at Naughty in N'awlins 2019 about how sexual adventure impacts one's personal growth. Sharing stories, lessons ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/28555/ss-358-pushing-your-edge-personal-growth-through-sexual-adventure/

Dylan, Ginger, and Cooper visited New Orleans for Naughty in N'awlins 2019! Among the the sexiness and debauchery, Naughty offers educational sessions and demonstrations, and spac...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/28537/ss-357-swingset-origin-stories-recorded-live-at-naughty2019/

We all start somewhere in the lifestyle and the Swingset is an ideal place to access that welcoming hand! Dylan and Ginger are joined by two wise, experienced, and fantastically...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/28514/ss-356-the-new-swinger-experience/

Dylan and Ginger enjoy a conversation with Carly and Ronda about the Big, Beautiful Woman (BBW) experience. In a powerful and vulnerable discussion, Carly and Ronda share their...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/28496/ss-355-the-bbw-experience-w-carly-and-ronda/

Tristan Taormino brings Sex Out Loud and Dylan, Ginger, and Cooper bring Life on the Swingset to the Pleasure Chest Chicago for a two hour chat and attendee Q&A about: Bisexual Ma...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/28481/ss-354-lots-x-sex-out-loud-pleasure-chest-chicago-part-2/

Tristan Taormino brings Sex Out Loud and Dylan, Ginger, and Cooper bring Life on the Swingset to the Pleasure Chest Chicago for a two hour chat and attendee Q&A about: Bisexual Ac...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/28438/ss-353-lots-x-sex-out-loud-pleasure-chest-chicago-part-1/

Dylan Thomas and Ginger Bentham are both without their partners. Dylan and Ginger decide that it's more fun to cope with their traveling partners by dragging them kicking and st...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/28425/ss-352-away-with-our-partners/

Parenting is fucking hard… so Ginger Bentham , Lunabelle and Dylan Thomas get together to talk about it. They discuss working around child sitting, showing affection to partne...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/28417/ss-351-parenting-is-fcking-hard/

The Life on the Swingset crew, Dylan Thomas , Ginger Bentham , Mister Pent … and maybe even, could it really be, Cooper S. Beckett , get together and enjoy each other's company ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/28029/the-350th-episode-swingalong-spetacular/

Ginger Bentham and Dylan Thomas sit down together and catch up! They've had a lot of life happen in a very short amount of time. Ginger relays her experience in the desert, Dyla...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/28006/ss-349-ginger-and-dylan-catch-up-and-rediscover-themselves/

Tristan Taormino hosts Sex Out Loud , LIVE, at Life on the Swingset Takes Desire 2018 , in Cancún, with co-hosts Cooper S. Beckett and Ginger Bentham ! Bradford and Angela a...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/28003/ss-348-sex-out-loud-at-swingset-takes-desire-2018/

Dylan Thomas , Ginger Bentham , and Lunabelle of Ninja Sexology dive deep into the many ways genitals love stimulation and chat about being experimental with genitals. Lunabel...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/27981/ss-347-squishing-off-getting-experimental-with-our-genitals/

Tonight the Swingset opens the mailbag… but does so carefully, as it's -20F outside. Dylan Thomas , Ginger Bentham , Bex Caputo , and Lunabelle answer your listener questions! ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/27919/ss-346-gang-bang-the-mailbag-38-ideas-about-size-smooth-divorce-and-bbws/

Cooper S. Beckett , Dylan Thomas , Lyndzi Miller , along with Kayla moderating, discuss nonmonogamy in a panel titled: Infinite Ways to Love and Play. This was recorded LIVE at th...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/27908/ss-345-infinite-ways-to-love-and-play-a-nonmonogamy-panel/

Kira Royale and Mike joined us in 2018 for our trip to paradise, and when Dylan Thomas put the call out for interviews, they physically jumped at the opportunity. They discuss sw...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/27895/ss-344-kira-royale-and-mike-a-cafe-swingset-interview/

JV Altharas, and Shara Bono once again join Cooper S. Beckett, Ginger Bentham , and Dylan Thomas to continue discussing the debauchery and delight that was… Life on the Swing...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/27883/ss-343-total-desire-recall-2-part-2/

Authors of the new Paperback, FOR HIRE: OPERATOR , Alana Phelan and Kevin Patterson , join Dylan Thomas , Cooper S. Beckett , and Ginger Bentham to talk about being polyamorous...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/27863/ss-342-polyamorous-authors-and-representation-with-kevin-patterson-and-alana-phelan/

Tristan Taormino , JV Altharas, and Shara Bono join Cooper S. Beckett, Ginger Bentham , and Dylan Thomas in reveling in the debauchery and delight that was… Life on the Swing...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/27842/ss-341-total-desire-recall-2/

Life on the Swingset takes Desire 2018 was a rousing and rejuvenating success. During the trip, Dylan put out a call: Would you like to be interviewed? If so, bug me! Patrick, L...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/27830/ss-340-tay-jay-lara-and-patrick-a-cafe-swingset-interview/

Uneven, difficult, unique, surprising, evolving, exceptional. These are all words that describe Cooper's , Dylan's , and Ginger's lives on the Swingset.  Tonight they turn down ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/27812/ss-339-just-the-three-of-us-a-cafe-swingset-chat/

Join Cooper S. Beckett , Ginger Bentham , and Dylan Thomas , and Ophilia Tesla, The Professor, and Antonia Thomas, as they chat for nearly two hours over dinner at Sahlo, a res...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/27658/my-dinner-with-swingset-in-paradise-a-dinnercast/

Relationships are often worth the effort. People are worth the effort… until they're not. Tonight, Bex Caputo and Lunabelle join Dylan Thomas and Ginger Bentham to discuss w...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/27688/ss-337-relationship-struggles-emotional-black-holes/

Much as the Harry Potter series did when they reached Year Seven, we go long, overstuffed, earnest, and sometimes brash. Our annual trip to Desire Resort Riviera Maya is here, and...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/27650/the-swingset-takes-desire-year-seven-live/

Who doesn't love talking about blow-jobs? Bex Caputo from the Dildorks Podcast rejoins Dylan Thomas , Cooper S. Beckett , and Ginger Bentham to continue on for a whole new epis...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/27620/ss-335-blowjobs%C2%B2/

One of the difficulties of being in a community like non-monogamy is that your people are spread all over the country and the world. Often we travel to travel to see them, and som...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/27578/ss-334-gettin-some-while-on-the-road/

Tonight BEX CAPUTO from The Dildorks podcast joins COOPER S. BECKETT , DYLAN THOMAS , and GINGER BENTHAM to talk about giving and receiving amazing blowjobs. The crew offers ti...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/27521/ss-333-giving-and-receiving-amazing-blowjobs/

Fin and Emma from the NORMALIZING NON-MONOGAMY PODCAST join COOPER, DYLAN , CHRIS , and LOLA to revisit Soft Swap vs. Full Swap and connect on why there's still a useful distin...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/27499/ss-332-revisiting-soft-swap-full-swap-styles-of-swinging/

A lot of the people are pretty broke, though most are willing to add the caveat of privilege being able to basic niceties and even engage in a little treat every once in a while. ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/27466/ss-331-swinging-and-polyamory-when-broke-af/

Tonight's Gang Bang the Mailbag is the crew's 37th, and they're doing it in force! Cooper S. Beckett , Dylan Thomas , Ginger Bentham , Dirty Lola, Mister Pent, and Dr. Liz Powell...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/27456/ss-330-gang-bang-the-mailbag-37-pet-play-wallflowers-canadian-clubs/

Cooper S. Beckett and Dylan Thomas travel to Dallas for PolyDallas Millennium! There, they join with Angelique Luna (of the Living a Sex Positive Life podcast) to discuss the...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/27427/ss-329-the-importance-of-play-with-angelique-luna-live-at-poly-dallas-millennium/

In an episode recorded September 22nd, 2017, Dr. Liz Powell , Dylan Thomas , and Mike Joseph get together to talk about getting back on the horse after loss, or anything else tha...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/24848/ss-328-getting-back-on-the-horse/

This week on The Swingset, we return to the scorching 107 degree heat of Austin, Texas, where Ginger and Cooper attended and presented at Camp Ravish. On the last day of Camp, the...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/27321/ss-327-being-sex-positive-in-a-sex-negative-world-a-panel-discussion-at-camp-ravish/

This past weekend, Cooper S. Beckett and Ginger Bentham flew down to the balmy state of Texas, which greeted them with a 107 degree heat index. But the temperature wasn't the on...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/27281/ss-326-coloring-outside-the-lines-in-sexuality-kink-cooper-ginger-live-at-camp-ravish-austin/

The Swingset crew is back with another Gang Bang the Mailbag! COOPER S. BECKETT , DYLAN THOMAS , DR. LIZ POWELL , DIRTY LOLA , and MISTER PENT answer listener voicemails and emai...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/27272/ss-325-gang-bang-the-mailbag-36-swinging-while-broken-addiction-and-swinger-culture-and-more/

The Swingset crew banked so many episodes that they hadn't recorded for almost two months. For their first night back, they decided to give each other… the business. In addition...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/27262/ss-324-from-poo-to-lactation-a-swingset-business-episode/

Cooper S. Beckett, Dylan Thomas, and Ginger Bentham know that the mailbag won't gang bang itself, so they've sat down to answer listener submitted questions for the 35th time! Q...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/27247/ss-323-gang-bang-the-mailbag-35-dental-dams-straight-women-aspergers-swinging/

The Life on the Swingset crew traveled to Playground 2018: Come Together, and decided to sit together and record one of our traditional “Swingset Bedcast” episodes. Cooper S. ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/27222/ss-322-they-came-for-the-titties-they-stayed-for-the-knowledge-a-playground-bedcast/

Touch is powerful. Touch signals and communicates, touch comforts and supports, Touch can be thoughtful…touch can hurt. We feel it when we have it, we feel its absence when we d...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/27209/ss-321-on-the-power-of-touch-and-on-touch-deficits/

A fair critique of most sex positive gatherings, especially sexuality conferences, is that they are predominantly white. Over the years, significant progress has been made, and Po...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/27180/ss-320-diversity-in-sexuality-conferences-and-sex-therapy-with-ruby-bouie-johnson-of-polydallas-millennium/

Every November for the last six year, the Life on the Swingset has led a motley crew of wayward hedonists to Desire Resort on the Riviera Maya in Cancun. Tonight the hosts of our...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/27153/ss-319-total-desire-recall-with-tristan-taormino-jv-altharas-and-shara-bono/

Dylan Thomas , Dirty Lola , and Dr. Liz Powell sit down together to talk about the art of the compliment: how to compliment someone in a way that it will be accepted in the spiri...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/27133/ss-318-the-art-of-the-compliment/

There's a community that Life on the Swingset hasn't found occasion to speak with much: the polyamorous furry community. Tonight, Dylan Thomas , Dr. Liz Powell , and Mike Joseph ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/27103/ss-317-the-polyamorous-furry-community-w-viro-the-science-collie-metriko-oni/

Life on the Swingset came together for Playground 2018: Come Together, a Sex-Positive, Inclusive, Intersectional Event. It was the largest gathering of Swingset co-hosts ever, and...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/27067/ss-316-shiny-beacons-of-slutty-hope-live-at-playground-conference-2018-in-toronto-canada/

Paths to kink vary pretty wildly. From occasional giggles and smacks on the bottom, to role-playing as students in a classroom begging to be good for the principal, to full suspen...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/27053/ss-315-letting-your-kinks-run-wild-with-sunny-megatron-ken-melvoin-berg/

Tonight, guests Midori and Marcia Baczynski join Cooper Beckett , Dylan Thomas , Dr. Liz Powell , and Dirty Lola to talk about making hot kinky play actually happen. They'll al...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/27023/ss-314-how-to-make-hot-kinky-play-actually-happen-w-marcia-baczynski-midori/

One of Life on the Swingset's most popular episodes is Masturbation – Our Touching Origins . Cooper S. Beckett, Dylan Thomas, Dirty Lola, Dr. Liz Powell, and Mister Pent sit tog...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/27003/ss-313-mutual-masturbation-giving-each-other-a-hand/

Nail Clipping! Facial, Genital, and Ass Hair Maintenance! Keeping it Clean… or Not! Tonight, Dylan Thomas , Ginger Bentham, Dr. Liz Powell,  Dirty Lola,   and Mister Pent ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/26968/ss-312-sexually-relevant-grooming-habits/

It's been a year, hasn't it? On this episode of Life on the Swingset, The Podcast, we're going to reflect, not on the horrors of the year that everybody among us so well knows, bu...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/26905/ss-311-foresight-and-hindsight-amber-goodbye-2017-hello-2018/

Those of us young in the world and in non-monogamy don't spend a lot of time thinking about aging and in how it affects our play partners, our relationships, and our own sexuality...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/26830/ss-310-aging-and-sexuality-with-ken-haslam-belle-sheperd-joel-kann-and-duncan-recorded-live-at-desire-resort/

Life on the Swingset is a podcast and website about swinging, polyamory, and open relationships from the trenches. Through debates, interviews, and sexy discussions, The Swingset Crew tackles sex, relationships, and their accompanying accoutrements, and what it means to be open sexually in a world that’s often closed.

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/26798/ss-309-the-most-valuable-sexual-lessons-we-ever-learned/

As Lydia Deetz once said, “I myself am strange and unusual.” Swingsetters are merry misfits who don't hew to society's traditional norms. Tonight, Ginger Bentham , Dirty Lola,...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/26681/ss-308-sexual-oddballs-in-a-vanilla-world/

The Swingset invites Tamara Pincus and Rebecca Hiles , authors of the new book “IT'S CALLED POLYAMORY ” onto the show to discuss the many things people both new and experienc...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/26646/ss-307-its-called-polyamory-with-rebecca-hiles-and-tamara-pincus/

Ginger Bentham , Cooper S. Beckett , and Dylan Thomas return to Desire Resort & Spa for Swingset's second full resort takeover and for their sixth annual pilgrimage to the sexie...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/26571/ss-306-live-at-desire-a-restatement-of-values-ssdesire/

We've all spent a big chunks of our your lives trying to transform relationships from “kind of okay” into “good”. Most of us wait to have big conversations about what our ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/26489/ss-305-designing-your-perfect-relationship-with-dr-nerdlove/

Attraction. Chemistry, Urges. Biting our lower lip. Pants Feelings. *GRUNT* Join DIRTY LOLA , MIKE JOSEPH , MISTER PENT , and DYLAN THOMAS as they welcome back BEX from The Dild...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/26460/ss-304-pants-feelings-things-that-make-you-go-mmmmmm/

We've answered the same question a lot lately: How do single men navigate the lifestyle? We've rightfully mentioned the mountain most single men must climb to be successful, In di...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/26417/ss-303-low-value-dick-and-accessible-messaging/

Sometimes we lose sight of some of the people and some of the things that matter in ourlives. Dr. Liz Powell , Mike Joseph , and Dylan Thomas get together and figure out how to r...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/26403/ss-302-making-room-in-life-for-the-things-that-matter/

Tonight, Madam Fierce joins the Mike Joseph , Dirty Lola , and Dylan to re-open the mailbag once again to give it the gang bang it deserves. The crew answers questions on the di...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/26372/ss-301-gang-bang-the-mailbag-34-inquiring-swingers-want-to-know/

In our first podcast (ALL THE WAY BACK FROM 2010!) we discuss the very beginnings of what to do when you think you may want to have an open relationship. We talk in detail about d...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/26286/ss-1-dipping-a-toe-in-how-to-start-swinging-transcript/

Life on the Swingset gets back together at the ski chalet, high atop Mt. Swingset, except it's August and the air conditioning is on. The chair lifts aren't active so Ginger,  Mi...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/26265/ss-300-live-atop-mt-swingset-at-the-ski-chalet/

When people think of sex, they generally assume there's penile penetration, probably into a vagina, and that everything leading up to that penetration is foreplay. It's a very nar...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/26259/ss-299-foreplay-and-changing-ideas-of-sex/

It is always risky, telling people what you're into, what you want, that you like them, but as we've found out it's often essential in getting anywhere in non-monogamy and in life...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/26010/ss-298-putting-ourselves-out-there-in-sex-relationships/

Dirty Lola , Cooper S. Beckett , and Dr. Liz Powell get together to discuss THREESOMES, the bests, the worsts, and the firsts Check out SWINGER SAFARI , the mobile app that has...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/25975/ss-297-pursuing-threesomes/

When setting up your dating profile, be it monogamous, poly, or swinger, if you're considering putting a big close up of your dick front and center, you MAY want to reconsider. To...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/25933/ss-296-dick-pics-and-dating-profiles-with-cunning-minx/

Most of us, especially when young, hope that death will never come, or at least not for a really really long time, and that can mean being unprepared when it does. Difficulties wi...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/25682/ss-295-mortality/

Non-monogamy definitely ups the ante on BUSY, which causes many of us to try to organize and plan our lives as carefully as possible. We say things like “I'm not going to date a...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/25674/ss-294-game-changers-when-awesome-people-upset-our-carefully-planned-lives/

We have a habit here of finding people fascinating on social media and at conferences, and so often they seem to live so very far away… like many members of the Swingset. Mike J...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/25639/ss-293-long-distance-relationships-keeping-it-sexy/

Over the last five years, the Swingset has seen first hand the glorious moments and difficulties of building our own community on our trips to the most pleasurable place on earth ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/25587/ss-292-building-our-sexy-community-in-the-most-pleasurable-place-on-earth/

In traditional one on one sex, you pretty much know who you'll be engaging with, but when that complexity deepens to three, four, five or more (which is where we switch to the ter...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/25527/ss-291-planning-an-orgy-the-dynamics-of-group-sex/

We're Gang Banging the Mailbag once again, it is in fact our 33rd time! Today, Dirty Lola , Cooper S. Beckett , Dr. Liz Powell , and Dylan Thomas  answer your listener questions!...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/24976/ss-290-gang-bang-the-mailbag-33-my-wife-and-i-the-sequel/

Eighteen episodes is the longest we've ever gone without a listener mailbag episode, so tonight we've dug in deep with a new collection of listener questions including a highly co...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/24951/ss-289-gang-bang-the-mailbag-32-my-wife-and-i/

For many of us, masturbation is one of the first things to go when we're depressed. Tonight we're going to explore the flipside of our full throttled self love. The hows the whys ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/24943/ss-288-masturbation-our-touching-origins/

We talk about butts bunches. Many of us enjoy putting things in our butts. Some of us wish we enjoyed it. What we don't often get into is the whys of butt play, how to make it bet...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/24918/ss-287-why-in-the-butt-the-joy-of-anal-sex/

We've talked a lot about porn, often in high falutin ways about its importance (cuz it is important), its ability to change the world (cuz it has that), its danger of extinction (...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/24884/ss-286-making-porn-the-sexy-the-silly-the-mundane/

We've all had the experience of life getting in the way of our sexy. Sometimes life pounds us with things that try to compel us to STAY DOWN. Tonight, Ginger Bentham returns and joins Mike Joseph...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/24831/ss-285-keeping-it-sexy-in-unsexy-times/

Non-monogamy is riding a wave. Recently CNN had a positive article about the fact that more and more young people are choosing some flavor non-monogamy over traditional relationship forms. Awaren...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/24810/ss-284-the-non-monogamy-renaissance-w-andre-shakti/

Ginger continues the two-year tradition by sitting down with Cooper for a frank and intimate discussion about his new novel Approaching the Swingularity: Tales of Swinging & Polyamory, toxic masc...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/24798/ss-special-cooper-and-ginger-talk-approaching-the-swingularity/

While many people enter into non-monogamy when already “coupled,” there are some ways that folks approach this transition that can make folks like me feel more like prey than people. While th...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/24778/ss-283-ethical-unicorn-hunting-in-swinging-polyamory-life-on-the-swingset/

When we talk about privilege, it's usually a matter of race and class, and boils down to us not seeing or not even knowing to look for the issues that others face. Andrew Gurza, our guest tonight...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/24748/ss-282-playing-with-disability-w-andrew-gurza/

There is a sort of order from chaos that happens when like minded people discover others like themselves. Individuals become clusters, clusters become groups, and with groups come unavoidable gr...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/24688/ss-281-finding-and-being-community-role-models-w-kevin-patterson/

After seven years of podcasting, it's rather shocking to us how much we put of our lives out into the ether. A podcast can be very much like a living document in that way. What compels us to shar...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/24680/ss-280-sharing-oversharing-putting-our-sex-lives-on-stage-with-lucas-brooks-kinky-jean/

Tonight we celebrate two things, first, our 7th anniversary as a podcast, and second our first takeover of Desire Resort last November. It's no secret that there's been some…stuff…happening i...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/24640/ss-279-the-allure-of-paradise-the-swingset-at-desire-resort/

Hello Swingset Fans and welcome to Desire week on the Swingset! The following podcast was recorded at Desire in November 2016 and features Duncan and Mrs. Duncan, Jeff and Francine, Swinger Doc a...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/24632/desire-week-2017-esda-080-dungeon-desire-dm-roundtable-ending-the-sexual-dark-age/

Hello Swingset Fans and welcome to Desire week on the Swingset! The following podcast was recorded at Desire in November 2016 and features Dr. Liz Powell, Chris aka. Mister Pent, and myself, and ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/24628/desire-week-2017-gpsc-014-closing-the-deal-at-the-swingset-desire-takeover-the-gentleperverts-social-club/

You're all sexy and sophisticated human beings, You understand your sexuality and you enjoy both giving and receiving pleasure. Once you've figured all that out about yourself, where do you go? W...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/24602/ss-278-from-dildos-to-playrooms-accessorizing-our-sexy-lives/

It's no secret that women may have dramatically different experiences entering into the non-monogamous world than men, whether it's exploring dating on OkCupid, charting a path through swinger...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/24536/ss-277-on-gender-feminism-non-monogamy-with-dedeker-winston/

Used to be, we'd talk pretty endlessly about our sexual activity on this podcast, to the point where our MOST NEGATIVE REVIEW EVER called us out for it. But that's ages ago, and it's been quite a...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/24508/ss-276-our-finest-sexy-hours-explanabrag/

It seems to happen like clockwork. Someone cheats, or gets caught in some sort of sex scandal. They have to make amends, show that they're working to fix “the problem” so they can return to t...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/24476/ss-275-the-myths-of-sex-porn-addiction-with-dr-david-ley/

It's the New Year, 2017, and for much of our country that means halfhearted resolutions. I'm going to change. I'm going to improve. These resolutions come about because of the arbitrary timeline ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/24448/ss-274-never-finished-improving-ourselves-for-sex-relationships/

We've been overdue for for a rapprochement with one of our favorite past topics: Privacy and Security in Swinging & Polyamory.The team of Mister Pent and Dylan Thomas put together information abo...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/24439/ss-273-cybersecurity-for-our-naughty-bits-aka-bring-on-2017/

One of the main reasons that so many of us leave monogamous relationships is the realization that we or our partners may not be as hetero as we thought. Non-monogamy can provide an exceptional op...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/24401/ss-272-beyond-kinsey-sliding-across-the-sexuality-spectrum/

Welcome to Gang Bang The Mailbag TRIPLE X (plus 1)!  We're recording tonight with a live (and muted) studio audience! As always, questions have been edited for content and clarity. As usual, ans...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/24365/ss-271-gang-bang-the-mailbag-31/

Welcome to Gang Bang The Mailbag TRIPLE X! That's right, this is our thirtieth listener mailbag episode, and we're recording tonight with a live (and muted) studio audience! As always, questions ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/24347/ss-270-gang-bang-the-mail-bag-xxx/

Dating in the heteronormative world is difficult. It's also bizarre enough that hundreds of comedies and dramas are made about dating every year. When you zoom down to that subsection of the cult...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/24270/ss-269-dating-on-the-outskirts-of-sexuality-lgbtq-matchmaking-with-claire-ah/

A large percentage of us dwell pretty securely within the non-monogamy closet. Friends and family may know something is different about us, but they rarely know fully what is up. That said, we li...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/24254/ss-268-being-sex-positive-from-inside-the-non-monogamy-closet/

Life on the Swingset hosts its fifth annual trip to Desire Resort & Spa in Cancún, right in the heart of the Riviera Maya. Cooper, Dylan, Dr. Liz, Lyndzi, and Mr. Pent sit under the thatched roo...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/24243/ss-267-swingset-takes-over-desire/

Communication. It doesn't need to be said, yet as it's the answer to so many questions we get asked, it really can't be overstated. One of the most important parts of communication when it comes ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/24227/ss-266-asking-for-what-you-want-leads-to-better-sex/

It's no secret that in the pantheon of the LGBT spectrum, bisexual people are looked down upon, told they don't really exist, avoided in dating life. Bisexuals also often feel less pressure to co...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/24159/ss-265-bi-invisibility-the-closet/

As couples, so often we're looking for the third. The unicorn usually. They're rare, seemingly unobtainable, but when we find them it's just so magical. Except that we're often boxing that unicor...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/24127/ss-264-couples-privilege-the-notion-of-the-third/

We all send dirty comments, dirty pictures, full on sext-travaganzas with our partners, playmates, friends straddling the edge of naughty. Tonight we're joined by the Swinging MILF herself, Sally...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/24107/ss-263-lets-get-sexting-dirty-talk-and-naked-pics/

When people consider exploring non-monogamy, we tell them to picture a pretty good but occasionally difficult relationship (ie, every relationship) and then picture it expanding exponentially bec...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/24097/ss-262-why-we-play-with-others/

It's pretty much a given that, at some point or another in swinging or polyamory, there will be boundary violations, safer sex failures, and other moments you'd talked about and thought about and...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/24075/ss-261-mistakes-happen-processing-after-boundary-violations-or-safer-sex-failures/

There are few acts in the pantheon of sexuality that carry with them so much intrigue, coveting, and fear, as double penetration, and its more advanced siblings double vaginal and double anal. Fo...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/24052/ss-260-double-penetration-and-other-varsity-sexual-moves/

While we're pretty good on the Swingset at talking about our experiences in polyamory and swinging, We have limits to our shared experience, so we reached out and asked Mike Joseph to join the S...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/23978/ss-259-polyamorous-as-a-person-of-color-with-mike-joseph/

Ginger takes the cords of the mailbag and sits down with Dylan and a LIVE STUDIO AUDIENCE as they answer listener questions for the 29th Gang Bang the Mailbag! The Swinger Doc also sits down...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/23976/ss-258-gang-bang-the-mailbag-29-post-pregnancy-swinging-grower-vs-shower/

Hey Swingsetters, Cooper here – Today we're running an episode of our new Swingset.FM podcast On The Wet Coast, where I discuss depression and other mental illness with Kat Stark and Serious Fl...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/23959/otwc-003-mental-illness-on-the-wet-coast-2/

Cooper gets the night off as Ginger makes herself available to Dylan to discuss his attraction to breasts, and his fear that they are the focus of too much attention and energy. The Swinger Do...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/23904/ss-257-on-breasts-and-attraction/

All three of us here on the Swingset have occasionally dated and played independent of our partners, and all three of our partners have dated and played independent of us. A moment that can be tr...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/23849/ss-256-smoothing-re-entry-when-our-partners-date-or-play-without-us/

We've talked a lot of bout community lately on the Swingset, and while we've specifically made the point that it's not enough to talk about diversity but to take action to seek it out, we've done...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/23825/ss-255-people-of-color-in-kink-communities/

How do you find other swingers? How do you find people to date? Those top a list of frequent questions we get on the Swingset. As outsiders looking in, as people curious to get started, we all wo...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/23774/ss-254-the-pursuit-of-playmates-lovers-in-swinging-polyamory/

We're back! We took the longest (only) hiatus in Swingset History and each of us has come back rested and ready. Today we discuss the blurring of the line between swinging and polyamory and how t...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/23740/ss-253-between-swinging-polyamory-the-haziness-intensifies/

It's Desire Week at Life on the Swingset, with 150 days and less than 25 rooms remaining for our 2016 Desire Takeover (November 5-12) we're running Desire episodes of the podcast as well as blogs...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/23581/desire-week-essays-from-my-life-on-the-swingset-audiobook/

It's Desire Week at Life on the Swingset, with 150 days and less than 25 rooms remaining for our 2016 Desire Takeover (November 5-12) we're running Desire episodes of the podcast as well as blogs...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/23580/desire-week-ss-184-ending-the-sexual-dark-age-with-the-swingset-at-desire-resort-spa/

It's Desire Week at Life on the Swingset, with 150 days and less than 25 rooms remaining for our 2016 Desire Takeover (November 5-12) we're running Desire episodes of the podcast as well as blogs...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/23574/desire-week-ss-209-swinging-for-beginners-ix-sexy-vacations/

It's Desire Week at Life on the Swingset, with 150 days and less than 25 rooms remaining for our 2016 Desire Takeover (November 5-12) we're running Desire episodes of the podcast as well as blogs...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/23572/desire-week-ss-183-a-swinging-vacation-live-from-desire-resort-spa-life-on-the-swingset/

It's Desire Week at Life on the Swingset, with 150 days and less than 25 rooms remaining for our 2016 Desire Takeover (November 5-12) we're running Desire episodes of the podcast as well as blogs...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/23571/desire-week-ss-230-the-swingset-takes-desire-iv-where-were-going-we-dont-need-clothes/

Ginger and Cooper continue to gang bang that mailbag! Tonight we answer questions about being given the go ahead to be open and then having it revoked, what it's like to be an introvert at a sw...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/23442/ss-251-gang-bang-the-mailbag-27-bi-invisibility-swinging-from-infidelity-the-opp-2/

Jealousy pops up everywhere in our lives — at work, at home, and in romantic relationships. It can range from slight twinges to full-blown outbursts. No one likes feeling jealous, but it can be...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/23505/ma-050-5-tactics-to-tame-jealousy-multiamory/

We're scaling back a little at The Swingset to allow ourselves to take some needed rest. This has caused Dylan to go off to The Dakotas to hunt mastodon. Meanwhile, Ginger and Cooper hold down th...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/23414/ss-251-gang-bang-the-mailbag-27-bi-invisibility-swinging-from-infidelity-the-opp/

“Pegging Enthusiast” isn't just Cooper's motto… it's his mission statement. One of the most specific sex acts, named in a contest by Dan Savage's Savage Love Readers, pegging is when a woma...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/23320/ss-250-pegging-experience-with-ruby-ryder/

We've talked of group sex and orgies often, the logistics of sex and play parties, of mfm threesomes, and somehow danced around the actual genesis for our mailbag titles. It so happens that we kn...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/23287/ss-249-having-gang-bangs-real-ones-not-mailbags/

Today's episode features me, Dylan, speaking with Daisy, Dawn Ardent, Damien, and Duncan as we chat about our community and how we enjoy those of us in the community…thoroughly, being closeted,...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/23249/ss-248-swingsets-got-the-d/

Hi Swingset Fans! Dylan Theodore Thomas here, (yes we've decided my middle name is Theodore) Over the last six years, Life on the Swingset has grown into more than the sum of its parts. It's a po...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/23212/dp-003-judaism-technology-and-dont-you-worry-sey-hey-with-ya-el-dont-panic-podcast-2/

This isn't a regular episode. Dylan grabs the mic and takes over for a monologue on stress, thinking about being closeted, and intersectionality. In between all that Morgan tells us how Swinging ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/23186/episode-247-stress-closets-and-intersections/

Often our discussion of swinging travels down the traditional “norms” of the subculture, a couple, a man and woman, having sex with other couples. But we all know that any subculture is full ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/23171/ss-246-the-one-with-the-lesbian-swingers/

Prof and Ginger sip tequila and espresso Martinis while reliving all the sexiness of Desire with the Swingsetters. Flirting, playing, and maybe a cheese plate or two later, Prof and Ginger resolv...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/23154/if-011-swingset-takes-desire-recap-intellectual-foreplay/

Abuse isn't discussed the same way we discuss other issues in our communities. Otherwise well meaning people sometimes end up working to silence victims of abuse when they need community support ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/23145/ss-245-abuse-in-non-monogamous-and-kink-communities/

Sometimes it feels great to be really and truly degraded. The humiliation expansion pack for BDSM draws curiosity, ire, and extreme excitement from the world. Another stop, on that same train lin...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/23132/ss-244-cuckolding-humiliation-with-princess-kali/

Katie Mack and Ginger Bentham are ready to #femmespread like you've never seen before. Talking honestly and earnestly about their experiences as women, Katie and Ginger get unapologetically bitch...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/23108/ss-243-the-bitchcast/

Six years ago, Cooper, Dylan and two other panelists blustered through far too long of an intro and a horrible title and made a thoroughly mediocre hour of podcasting. When we started this thing...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/23097/the-sixth-anniversary-show-with-miko-and-shira/

Hey fellow men… Dylan here. I want to take a moment to express a little sympathy. It can be incredibly hard out there to be a man. We're living in an age inspired by the speed of the internet. ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/23056/ss-241-men-we-need-to-talk/

As a well known hypochondriac and germophobe who'd just as soon wrap his entire body in the Titan Full Body Condoms from The Naked Gun if only they sold them at The Lucky Bloke, It's no surprise ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/23046/ss-240-eroticizing-safer-sex-with-the-doctor/

Ginger sits down with Cooper for a one-on-one discussion of his new novel about swinging A Life Less Monogamous, recorded just days before the book launch. After they chat for a while, Cooper sha...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/23008/ss-239-a-life-less-monogamous-a-novel-about-swinging-by-cooper-s-beckett/

One finger, two finger, three finger, four…sometimes even that's not enough and you need to go the full five. To fisting! Huzzah! Tonight we're joined by the amazing Andre Shakti to talk about ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/23001/ss-238-fisting-with-andre-shakti/

We discovered tonight's guest Andre Shakti after seeing her in the wonderful adult film Marriage 2.0, naturally smitten, we followed that internet rabbit hole down and discovered her site and the...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/22982/ss-237-live-porn-web-camming-with-andre-shakti/

We here on the swingset have a lot of sex. #explanabrag. We've spoken at length about how casual that sex may actually be, and that definition has changed over the years for many of us. Tonight o...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/22973/ss-236-casual-sex-and-you-and-us/

For our first episode of 2016 we return to the mailbag for another listener question gang bang. We talk about seeking a well endowed man for an MFM threesome, who should pay for the hotel, swingi...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/22910/ss-235-gang-bang-the-mailbag-26-warning-before-ejaculating-who-should-pay-feeling-left-out/

Today, on this last day of 2015, we commit to one more gang bang… the mailbag episode. We discuss dating apps, changes in desire, situational erectile dysfunction and jealousy and panic attacks...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/22902/ss-234-gang-bang-the-mailbag-25-dating-apps-changes-in-desire-erectile-dysfunction-and-panic-attacks/

Hey, it’s Cooper, and boy, it's the holidays again, and here I sit in the Ski Chalet high atop Mount Swingset, crackling fire, hot chocolate spiked with RumChata, wearing my 10th Doctor onesie ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/22887/ss-233-in-the-ski-chalet-high-atop-mount-swingset/

The degree of complexity in relationship dynamics is exponential in non-monogamy. What that bullshit was trying to say, was that people are complicated, and every time you add one to your life, t...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/22851/ss-232-my-partners-break-up-dealing-with-relationship-fluctuations-outside-your-primary-swinging-poly-relationships/

Soooo, hi guys, it’s Dylan, and I have this problem. Sometimes I want to be up close and personal with someone. I want that full body contact. I want to slide right up next to someone while I'm...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/22823/ss-231-the-physics-of-sex-bodies-positions-and-objects-in-motion/

This year for Swingset Takes Desire we hosted a bunch of kinky events, and a great time was had by all. This discussion-group style episode was recorded live on our last full day at the resort, f...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/22779/esa-075-thirty-naked-people-and-a-microphone-desire-2015-discussion-group/

Desire. It's an emotion, raw and real. It's a place, warm and inviting, November 7th through the 14th of 2015, we made it our space. We brought 79 (and a half, thanks to the amazing Kendra Hollid...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/22773/ss-230-the-swingset-takes-desire-iv-where-were-going-we-dont-need-clothes/

  Hi Swingset Fans! We're in Desire and we don't have a new episode for you this week but we're recharging, recording, and we'll be back next week with another wonderful episode with Crista Anne...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/22765/ss-229-1-ssdesire-rain-delay/

Many of us are easily attracted to other people, That can lead us to wanting to be with ALL of the people. Swinging lends itself to that pretty well but poly, not so much. Of course, as with anyt...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/22743/ss-229-wanting-it-all-the-curse-of-abundance-in-swinging-polyamory/

One of the most enjoyable experiences you can have is putting on your headphones, closing your eyes, and listening to Rose Caraway, the Sexy Librarian, breathe some erotica right into your ears. ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/22664/ss-228-aural-sex-audio-erotica-phone-sex-dirty-talk-with-rose-caraway/

Tonight we're exploring our thoughts on sexual attraction, what it means and why we're attracted to others, why others may be attracted to us and how that feels, and perhaps most important of all...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/22639/ss-227-what-is-sexy-thoughts-on-sexual-attraction/

A while back, though who knows how long, because memory is fluid, like sexuality, Ginger, the coiner of terms, suggested Sintrovert and Sextrovert as two leading categories of sexually explorativ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/22619/ss-226-sintrovert-or-sextrovert-how-the-swinging-lifestyle-brings-out-the-social-animal-in-us-all/

“Why Are People Into That” is a question that people around the world ask of many things, often about various sexual kinks, fetishes, and practices. Podcast host Tina Horn asks on a regular b...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/22587/ss-225-why-we-push-our-sexual-boundaries-with-guest-tina-horn/

Our discussion of genitals, both our own and those belonging to other people, simply could not be contained by a single episode, so we return to the subject again, this time discussing labiaplast...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/22570/ss-224-the-genital-spectacle-ii-our-bodies-our-selves-our-bits/

Whether you had to find a mirror to see yours or you could just look down and not miss it, we've all had first encounters with our bits, you know, our genitals. In a culture that espouses a speci...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/22506/ss-223-the-genital-spectacle-learning-to-like-our-bits/

Swingset does as Chicago does with a 3-peat dip into the mailbag! We discuss discuss shy male swingers, just starting out in the lifestyle, couples’ jealousy, frustration with people who don’...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/22473/ss-222-gang-bang-the-mailbag-24-shy-male-swingers-just-starting-couples-jealousy-online-frustration-christian-swingers/

Welcome back to the Life on the Swingset mailbag where we're reading listener questions! As always questions are edited for time and cohesion unlike this podcast. If you have a question for an up...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/22141/ss-221-gang-bang-the-mailbag-23-ejaculation-trust-in-swinging-former-swingers-sex-club-consent/

We're dipping back into the mailbag for another Life on the Swingset gang bang of your listener voicemails and emails. As always questions are edited for time and cohesion. If you have a question...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/22052/ss-220-gang-bang-the-mailbag-22/

Everybody's sex drive is different, and it's likely that everybody who has ever had a sex drive has had assumptions made about it. Swingers, polyamorists, and other non-mono practicioners have ha...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/22024/ss-219-sex-drive-baby-you-can-drive-my-swinging-poly-lifestyle/

Do white rocks in front of a house in the suburbs mean there might be swingers inside? Believe it or not, this is still a question we get, without fail, every month or so. This way of picking out...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/21991/ss-218-white-rocks-black-rings-swinger-history-folklore-with-dr-jeana-jorgensen/

Recently, our own United States of America had a watershed moment. An injustice so deeply ingrained into what we've called society, what we've called family, what we've called “real and respect...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/21965/ss-217-what-about-poly-marriage-does-marriage-equality-extend-to-polyamory/

We all go on dates. Maybe it's a play date with another sexy couple. Maybe it's a romantic getaway with a partner we only see every couple months. Maybe it's a night of taking off your clothes an...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/21905/ss-216-dating-being-right-with-and-doing-right-by-your-people/

We've all been in situations that we were really… REALLY eager to be in…. then realize in the moment maybe we don't want to be in this particular situation but you like everyone involved and ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/21895/ss-215-successful-disengagement-stepping-back-gracefully/

In the wake of both Fetlife and Adult Friend Finder getting their content and naughty secrets scraped and posted online, there has been a renewed discussion about secrecy and privacy in swinging ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/21860/ss-214-secrecy-privacy-in-swinging-polyamory/

Welcome to our 21st Gang Bang the Mailbag! As always, if you want to ask a question via voicemail or text: 573-55-SWING, that's 573-557-9464, or send us an email at contact@lifeontheswingset.comA...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/21842/ss-213-gang-bang-the-mailbag-21-now-100-legal/

Believe it or not, our voicemail gang bang overflowed and we were left with extra voicemails. With that in mind, we've collected some listener emails to do our twentieth mailbag gangbang! As alwa...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/21815/ss-212-gang-bang-the-mailbag-20/

Holy shit, Shira B. Katz is here! … and she’s causing trouble! … and she starts a wonderful conversation with Ginger about mindfulness! ….and she asks what we’ve been doing with our liv...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/21709/ss-211-ghosts-of-swingset-past/

Adult film star, author, sex educator, outspoken feminist and advocate for sexual acceptance Nina Hartley joins and honors us with a conversation on the Swingset. Nina was a pioneer of sex positi...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/21699/ss-210-nina-hartley-talks-about-all-of-the-things/

Vacations. Aren't they great? But you know what's better? SEXY VACATIONS. The kind where you can be naked and flirt all day and have sex all night. Or maybe you decide on an afternoon delight. Of...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/21670/ss-209-swinging-for-beginners-ix-sexy-vacations/

Adult film star and filmmaker jessica drake has seen the porn industry through some of its most radical and affecting changes, and has moved herself from star to writer to educator with her jessi...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/21655/ss-208-evolution-the-porn-industry-and-from-performer-to-educator-with-jessica-drake/

Way back in 2011 Life on the Swingset issued a pleasure quest. Find a quality ejaculating dildo. Over the years, we did NOT find quality dildos, we DID find Miko, though, so it was a win over all...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/21597/ss-207-ejaculating-dildos-simulacrum-genitals-with-stephanie-berman/

We're back with more Swinging basics in our Swinging for Beginners series! Full Swap and Soft Swap are the two main classifications of swinging, with full swap including traditional PIV/PIA ( pen...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/21551/ss-206-swinging-for-beginners-viii-full-swap-soft-swap/

We hit the jackpot when it comes to voicemail questions in this episode. In fact, our voicemailbag runneth over. The Swingset crew gathers around to listen to your questions this time around. The...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/21512/ss-205-gang-bang-the-voicemailbag-no-kissing-rules-alcohol-swinging-the-lifestyle/

Cooper's first book My Life on the Swingset is 100 days old today! To celebrate the first of many milestones, we'll be posting two interviews that he did recently. The second of which has Coope...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/21450/ss-mylotss-polyamory-weekly-interviews-cooper-s-beckett/

Cooper's first book My Life on the Swingset is 100 days old today! To celebrate the first of many milestones, we'll be posting two interviews that he did recently. The first of which has Cooper ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/21449/ss-mylotss-we-gotta-thing-interviews-cooper-s-beckett/

This podcast was recorded LIVE at Catalyst Con East on March 28, 2015. So many people don’t know what they want or need sexually. Discovering those wants and needs can be a difficult process wit...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/21417/ss-204-figuring-out-what-you-want-sexually-how-to-ask-for-it-live-at-catalystcon-east-2015/

Hazy insanity, that is all. “It's like Goldschlager, you want to see the chunks.” “When I'm rubbing lube on your cock, I want to feel the chunks.” let me google that for you: pig penis �...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/21381/ss-203-a-new-beginning-loin-on-the-swineset-the-bedcast/

Humans have been having sex since the beginning of time. And from cave drawings to the Kama Sutra to The Joy of Sex, we have been inventing ways to communicate about the sex we are having. Then A...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/21280/ss-202-finding-and-creating-sex-positive-community-with-dr-dick/

Girl on girl…the mythology and visual ecstasy live large from Spring Break to Bourbon Street. Girl on girl sex is worthy of being epic. And certainly deserves more respect than main stream cult...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/21261/ss-201-girl-on-girl-girl-sex-101-with-allison-moon/

In two hundred episodes of Life on the Swingset, the podcast, we've seen ethical non-monogamy go from something whispered about into something that's getting cover articles in major publications....

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/21216/ss-200-monogamish-life-exploring-new-frontiers-with-dan-savage-2/

All of us living life on the Swingset are well-versed in the passion, communication, and negotiation being consensually non-monogamous requires. Yet it's rare to see our kinds of relationships po...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/21177/ss-199-reinventing-relationships-with-magnus-sullivan-writerproducer-of-marriage-2-0/

We've talked at length about the sad fact that many young people in america get the entirety of their sex ed from watching porn. When porn comes that's actually designed to educate, however, it c...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/21136/ss-198-blowjobs-cunnilingus-and-educational-porn-with-sophie-delancey/

Those of us who write about sex and speak about sex and sing about sex have stepped into a unique realm in our society. Where sex was always a hush hush don't talk about it subject, we've decided...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/21090/ss-197-sexual-expression-art-guest-rachel-lark/

Cooper, Dylan, and Miko return to Milwaukee, Wisconsin's wonderful Tool Shed to reprise Swingset's discussion on play parties. They’re whispered about, opinions are drawn, expectations are high...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/21088/ss-196-bacchanalia-basics-tool-shed-milwaukee-wi/

In our Swinging for Beginners Series thus far, we've taken you through deciding you're open, talking to your partner, setting up your profile, and going on a first date. We think you're ready for...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/21062/ss-195-swinging-beginners-vii-threesomes/

The Swingset welcomes back Crista Anne to discuss her recent commitment to herself; to find a path back to self-orgasm through once a day masturbation. Through her very personal and public #Orga...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/20988/ss-194-orgasms-sexuality-depression-orgasmquest-guest-crista-anne/

Our mailbag, full of pluck and fancy, keeps coming back with more questions for us to ponder and maybe even eventualy answer! Today we discuss swinging as parents of very young children, broken r...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/20907/ss-193-gang-bang-mailbag-19-broken-rules-multiple-male-orgasms-teenager-knows-dan-savage/

It's a new year and there are new questions in the mailbag, even a few voicemails! Tonight on Life on the Swingset, the podcast, we gang bang the mailbag as this series turns 18. We discuss some ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/20767/ss-192-gang-bang-mailbag-18-dirty-talk-cyber-sex-orgy-male-multiple-orgasms-poly-work/

Ginger sits down with Cooper for a one-on-one discussion of his book My Life on the Swingset: Adventures in Swinging & Polyamory, recorded on the day of launch. Give us a call and leave a voicema...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/20671/ss-191-life-swingset-ginger-sits-cooper-talk-book-launch/

Consent shouldn't be something we have to teach, It's the simplest thing in the world, ask before you touch. But beyond that, consent is involved in so many aspects of our non-monogamous lives, t...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/20670/ss-190-consent-emotional-lube/

Cooper's first book My Life on the Swingset is being released today, January 6, 2015! To celebrate the release of the book, we will be posting three podcast interviews that he did. The first of ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/20631/ss-mylotss-ending-sexual-dark-age-interviews-cooper-s-beckett/

Cooper's first book My Life on the Swingset is being released today, January 6, 2015! To celebrate the release of the book, we will be posting three podcast interviews that he did. The first of ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/20630/ss-mylotss-full-disclosure-podcast-interviews-cooper-s-beckett/

Cooper's first book My Life on the Swingset is being released today, January 6, 2015! To celebrate the release of the book, we will be posting three podcast interviews that he did. The first of ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/20629/ss-mylotss-carnalcopia-interviews-cooper-s-beckett/

We look back at 2014, what was a year of aggressive expansion for The Swingset, to talk about Desire, going to conferences, teaching classes, getting married, using new dildos like the awesome Ta...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/20602/ss-189-another-year-swingset-2014-year/

In an episode that has been attempted every year since the beginning, we reflect on days of non-monogamy gone by, talking about our bloopers and issues and funny times and sad times, and recogniz...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/20556/ss-188-ghosts-non-monogamy-past-swingset-holiday-special/

As a lifestyle that is outside the mainstream, ethical non-monogamy tends to attract humans who are outside the mainstream. This certainly goes for the men…men who treat women as equals…men w...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/20513/ss-187-good-men-everywhere/

When the topic of sexual shame comes up, nowhere is it greater than the institutionalized shame heaped upon the women of the world, asked to be both hypersexual and aesexual simultaneously. Tonig...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/20436/ss-186-women-sex-shame-elle-chase/

Heidi and Danny from the Swingin' Around podcast take Cooper aside for a little chat in the heart of paradise and discuss their experiences during their second visit to the resort. They talk mass...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/20410/ss-185-swingin-around-swingset-recorded-live-desire-resort-spa/

We took time out of our very hard and busy work schedules in Desire to record a discussion with JV and Shara of Ending the Sexual Dark Age as well as a couple dozen other sexy naked people, We di...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/20401/ss-184-ending-sexual-dark-age-swingset-desire-resort-spa/

Ginger, Professor, Miko, Ronin, Ophilia, and Cooper are out of the office this week. They've jet off to paradise in Mexico at Desire Resort and Spa for a swinging vacation, the third annual Life ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/20330/ss-183-swinging-vacation-live-desire-resort-spa-life-swingset/

We've talked and talked about awesome sex toys are, the tremendous advancements in the field, the glory of stainless steel and silicone, body safe and body conscious products. You know all of tha...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/20304/ss-182-worst-sex-toys-world-crista-anne-redhead-bedhead/

We at the Swingset are not wealthy. Despite what some may think, we don't make a fabulous living delivering a free podcast to you folks week after week. Despite that, though, we can afford to go ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/20295/ss-181-swinging-polyamory-budget-enjoy-fabulous-lifestyle-little/

Gang Bang the Mailbag 17 – Almost Legal. Asked and Answered Swingsetters! We discuss downgrading swing relationships, unexpected kissing jealousy, bi-threesome issues, partners backing out, the...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/20263/ss-180-gang-bang-mailbag-17-surprise-swinging-silicone-v-silicone-jealousy-x-2/

Sweet Gang Bang Sixteen! We've taken your questions and answered them on air! We discuss a single poly woman dating a monogamous guy, being new and a virgin in non-monogamy, coming out as polyamo...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/20235/ss-179-gang-bang-mailbag-16-unprotected-sex-lies-coming-poly/

Cooper Beckett, from the podcast Life on the Swingset, takes you through the common peaks and valleys of beginning swinging, covering jealousy, safer sex practices, communication and more. Whethe...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/20159/ss-178-swinging-primer-cooper-beckett-live-pleasure-chest-los-angeles/

Tonight we discuss erotica, writing it, reading it, tweeting it, living it with our guest Rachel Kramer Bussel. We discuss Rachel's extensive history in both writing and editing erotica, where er...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/20140/ss-177-erotica-writing-reading-tweeting-living-guest-rachel-kramer-bussel/

There is much to say about this recording. And also very little. You see it sits in a portion of our minds obscured and hazy, like it sits behind a drop of water, but who are we kidding, it sits ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/20099/ss-176-bed-semi-nude-swingset/

Life on the Swingset returns to CatalystCon West for a live podcast about group sex You know that one thing you can do outside monogamy that you can't do within? You can have group sex. That's ri...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/19966/ss-175-hump-circumstance-talking-group-sex-live-catalystcon-west/

Life on the Swingset returns to CatalystCon West for a panel discussion about throwing and attending a play party. They’re whispered about, opinions are drawn, expectations are high for both at...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/19964/ss-174-bacchanalia-basics-play-party-time-live-catalystcon-west/

Emotional scars, physical scars, both can wreak havoc on your emotional state and body image, especially when you feel different than before. Earlier this year Ginger took a hiatus from the Swing...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/19779/ss-173-swinging-scars-body-image-identity-major-life-changes/

The two most non-“how do I start swinging” questions we get on the Swingset is how do you organize your sex toys and how do you travel with sex toy, so we go in depth with advice and suggesti...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/19772/ss-172-organizing-travelling-sex-toys-dildos-vibrators-lube-rope-floggers-fun-things/

Jean Franzblau, speaker, writer and performer of the one woman show “Coming Out Kinky: A Grown Up Comedy” joins us for a discussion of her show as well as a performed excerpt, and a discussio...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/19720/ss-171-coming-kinky-guest-jean-franzblau/

After the explosive finale of last March's CatalystCon East, we bring Dee Dennis back on the show to discuss how hard it often is to get a dialog going about sex without having dissent everywhere...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/19689/ss-170-messiness-speaking-sex-catalystcon-guest-dee-dennis/

It's bizarro world and Life on the Swingset is going FULL SWAP. The Professor hosts this round table discussion featuring the partners of the Swingset, Ophilia Tesla, Tonia Thomas, and Ronin Tech...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/19671/ss-169-full-swap-swingsets-partners-take-show/

We're all evangelists for our lifestyles. We're not trying to convince people to try it out, we're there to offer our own experiences, to story tell, to educate when people ask for more informati...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/19633/ss-168-charge-swinging-lifestyle/

A couple months ago we tackled the topic of flirting, and how it's rather essential to sexy interaction, rather exponentially expanded for non-monogamy. Tonight on Life on the Swingset: The Podca...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/19601/ss-167-talking-dirty-turning-filthy-thoughts-naughty-words/

We get a response from a listener about our DP episode, as well as an eye opening picture (which we refuse to share!) We discuss speaking up in the moment, solo cheating males, unicorns, girl gir...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/19576/ss-166-gang-bang-mailbag-15-cheating-males-unicorns-girl-girl-play-one-penis-policy-bad-swinging-experiences/

We're back, and we gang bang the ever willing mailbag filled with your questions! We talk about chasing the white whale, a potential fluid bonding statute of limitations, cold sores (hsv1) and ki...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/19541/ss-165-gang-bang-mailbag-14-swinging-fairness-fluid-bonding-oral-herpes-disclosure/

We don't have a new Swingset episode this week ‘cuz, reasons. Summer, etc. Moving. You know the drill. That said, Miko, Ophilia, and I have released the first episode of Eat The Rudecast, an Un...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/19506/eat-rudecast/

In many ways, swinging is a lot like regular online dating, searching through profiles, reaching out via email. In one way, it's not so much. Naked pictures. Oh, sure, regular online dating invol...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/19494/ss-164-getting-naked-camera-taking-nude-pictures-guest-elle-chase-lady-cheeky/

Tonight on Life on the Swingset, The Podcast, we’re going back to basics for another episode of Swinging For Dummies. In the series thus far we’ve talked about realizing you’re interested i...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/19455/ss-163-swinging-beginners-vi-first-date/

We're all well aware of the risks inherent with sex, and we don't always like to use those barriers that keep us safe. From gloves and dental dams to the almighty condom, eroticizing barriers is ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/19430/ss-162-dont-forget-buckle-condom-eroticizing-barriers/

Here at Life on the Swingset we've had our own little sexual evolutions and those evolutions haven't gone unnoticed. Today, JV and Shara from the Ending the Sexual Dark Age podcast to pose to us ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/19386/ss-161-ending-sexual-dark-age-swingset/

I has been a while since anyone here on the Swingset could consider themselves “new to this” but it behooves us to every once in a while put ourselves back into that new and nervous state, wh...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/19301/ss-160-fumbling-toward-non-monogamy-guest-marcia-baczynski/

Flirting is perhaps the most important aspect of beginning any romantic and sexual relationship. As Swingers you really need to be on top of your flirting. Since we meet so many people in non-mon...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/19290/ss-159-flirting-reid-mihalko/

Cooper does a one man show Primer on Swinging recorded live at The Pleasure Chest in Chicago. All audience questions have been replaced by the dulcet tones of our own Dylan Thomas for their prote...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/19248/ss-158-a-primer-on-swinging-by-cooper-beckett-at-the-pleasure-chest-chicago/

When as adults we don't know what's going on with our sexuality, it can most often be chalked up to a lack of education. Education about risk, sure, but also education about the awesome things se...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/19203/ss-157-sex-education-college-students-megan-andelloux/

We still tend to treat the single male swinger as a problem, a pariah, when we host parties we wonder how to limit unpartnered male responses, we tense up at larger events where the male to femal...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/19169/ss-156-single-male-swinger-messing-bull/

Handjobs and Fingering! Now that we have your attention, we want everyone to remember that there's lots of pleasure to be hand through the wonders of the partnered manual stimulation of someone's...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/19077/ss-155-handjobs-fingering-week-strokin-penises-vulvas/

We tie up the mailbag today, after a double dose of answering your questions we're shelving the mailbag (for a bit). We took and answered a question about erections, specifically that even after ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/19058/ss-154-gang-bang-mailbag-13-erection-issues-swinging-cliques-gossip-body-types-swing-clubs/

Today we stick all our collective hands into our mailbag and pull your questions out! We're back for our twelfth Mailbag Gang Bang! We tackle questions about the black ring right hand movement, a...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/19021/ss-153-gang-bang-mailbag-12-black-rings-herpes-pre-judgement-swinging-single-male/

DP. DVP. DAP. Today, we discuss double penetration, double vaginal penetration, and double anal penetration, and not just the acts themselves. The act of any sort of double penetration requires t...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/18969/ss-152-dp-dvp-dap-double-penetration-spectacular/

Sabrina Morgan is a tireless advocate for sex workers’ rights and education on sex work. Having experience as a sex worker herself, as well as practicing ethical non-monogamy presents its own u...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/18819/ss-151-sex-work-education-non-monogamy-guest-sabrina-morgan/

Shame, it creeps up on us, sometimes out of nowhere and sometimes as a slow buildup but it can affect our sexuality in ways we don't expect and don't want. Sometimes tackling shame head on helps,...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/18645/ss-150-dealing-shame-around-sexuality-swinging-polyamory-guest-charlie-glickman/

How do you handle new relationships now that you’re non-monogamous? It’s like turning a cruise ship around, climbing a mountain, and a myriad of other metaphors. We have long talked about tak...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/18460/ss-149-designing-defining-non-monogamous-relationship/

Pegging: The act of a female giving anal sex to a male using a strap-on. Some couples enjoy the power reversal of this and some guys simply just like it up the arse. How do we do it? What are the...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/18126/ss-148-take-like-man-introduction-pegging-recorded-live-tool-shed/

Masturbation is awesome, isn’t it? Sex for two, few would argue, is even better. Threesomes are roundly considered to be one of the epitome’s of the sexual experience. Let’s add a few more ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/17503/ss-147-build-orgy-sex-many-people/

Swing With Friends! … except sometimes the distance between those friends is enough to qualify the trip as more of a sexcation instead of a normal date. Whether because we live in less populate...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/17462/ss-146-sexcations-travelling-swing-friends/

Sex is awesome. We’re all on board with that, right? Beyond the act, er, acts, for many of us (in fact I’d wager a large percentage of our listeners) getting information about sex carries wit...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/17407/ss-145-geeking-sex-kate-mccombs-founder-sex-geekdom/

We all want to be “on”. We carve out the time, spend some money, clean up the house, groom our fun areas, and make the arrangements with the people we want to see. Sometimes as “the time”...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/17336/ss-144-ebb-flow-libido-effect-swinging-polyamory/

Happy New Year everyone! 2013 was a year filled with pain, regret, and some amazing time spend with wonderful people, fans, and at fantastic venues and conventions. 2014 is on course to be a much...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/17278/ss-143-swinging-polyamory-resolutions-2014/

We decided to have a nice little end of the year chat. We've traveled and spoken so much this year, experienced so many beautiful people, endured intolerable amounts of grief, and come out of it ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/17179/ss-142-looking-back-2013-welcoming-2014-new-years-closer/

This is Part 2 of my accidental roundtable discussion put together in the seaside room of one of our guests at Desire – Riviera Maya. We continue the discussion about bi-women, mansplaining, an...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/17139/ss-141-dylan-hosts-a-roundtable-discussion-in-paradise-part-2-live-from-desire-resort-spa-cancun/

Dylan had an idea. He thought it'd be a great idea to sit down, two on one with couples while at Desire and interview them, ask questions about how their vacation was going, get some decent sound...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/17101/ss-140-dylan-hosts-a-roundtable-discussion-in-paradise-part-1-live-from-desire-resort-spa-cancun/

Midway through Life on the Swingset's second annual trip to Desire Resort & Spa in Cancun, Dylan, Ginger, & Cooper sat down with many of the tour guests to record a silly podcast reflecting on th...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/17033/ss-139-swinging-paradise-live-desire-resort-spa-cancun/

We've evolved quite a bit over the last three years, our choices in play preferences, what we're open to, and the people we're open to play with have expanded as well. We've chosen to use safer s...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/16960/ss-138-risk-aware-sex-condoms-dental-dams-rebranding-safe-sex-dr-antoinette-izzo/

When preparing to embark on open relationship, or deep within the throes of one, hammering out an open agreement, determining your rules and boundaries, and having those ever important discussion...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/16902/ss-137-open-agreement-setting-rules-boundaries-swinging-polyamory-cat-maness/

The past two episodes have been live recordings in front of an audience of folks anxious to listen to us talk about non-monogamy and swinging. Our “toury-ness” has brought us to San Francisco...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/16869/ss-136-swingset-road-talking-swinging-polyamory-ethical-non-monogamy-irl/

A Primer on Swinging: How to Meet, Have Sexy Times, & Otherwise Enjoy Your Friends and Neighbors Cooper and Dylan, co-hosts of Life on the Swingset the podcast, take you through the common peaks ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/16763/ss-135-a-primer-on-swinging-recorded-live-at-the-tool-shed-an-erotic-boutique/

Our second trip to CatalystCon in 2013 yielded our best audience yet, and our most cohesive discussion on what Progressive Swinging truly means. We discuss the importance of community, coming out...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/16731/ss-134-sex-benefits-progressive-swinging-recorded-live-catalystcon-west/

Chaos. Just chaos. Context: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAjkUv2Q95o Interested in signing up for our favorite Lifestyle site Kasidie.com? Click here to try it out!

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/16705/ss-133-live-nude-cast-naked-bed-swingset-catalystcon-west/

We've flipped it in and out, over and under, even hung it up and left it for a while, that mailbag gets a lot of gang bang action… as it should! We take more of your questions (send us more at ...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/16696/ss-132-gang-bang-mailbag-11-swing-clubs-bbws-unicorns-cockrings/

Today we hit the mailbag hard… harder than usual.  We like our mailbag and we received a metric ton of your questions! We talked about cream pies and how to play safer, with a detour about eth...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/16639/ss-131-gang-bang-mailbag-10-cream-pies-allergies-declining-sex-life-blogging/

You don't know any swingers in person. You don't know where any clubs are. You're eager, wide eyed, and ready to explore sexiness with others. Luckily the Swingset has been there and we found our...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/16581/ss-130-back-school-swinging-beginners-v-online-swinger-profiles/

We had every intention about talking about swinger bloopers this episode. It stayed in our heads while we went through business… then went through some more business… then we lost it and ende...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/16525/ss-129-accidentally-topic-swingset-updates/

Cooper, Shira, Ginger, and The Professor ™ all get together for a discussion on kissing; why it's a big deal, why some swingers make rules against it, how it feels great… how badly you can sc...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/16492/ss-128-k-i-s-s-i-n-g/

Shira B. Katz makes her triumphant return with a considerable discussion about impermanence and how the changes in her and both Cooper's relationships statuses have affected their views on non-mo...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/16415/ss-127-impermanence-in-non-monogamy-learning-to-embrace-brevity-and-let-go/

Riding herd on the Swingset isn't something you forget. Ginger isn't ready to put it behind her, so she holds on to the reigns and rides harder; we discuss our best erotic moments as swingers, ex...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/16395/ss-126-in-which-domina-takes-over-2-ride-harder/

Ginger Bentham takes over the Swingset today to ask questions we may never have directly addressed. Our Domina inquires about condom disasters, our biggest turn-offs, and how to approach a big gr...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/16315/ss-125-in-which-a-domina-takes-over-and-rides-us-hard/

In this very special (non)episode of Life on the Swingset, Ginger Bentham and Cooper Beckett do a dramatic reading of the recent Anthony Weiner twitter scandel “reported on” by The Dirty We w...

https://www.lifeontheswingset.com/16310/swingerpiece-theater-presents-weinergate-2-the-embiggening-featuring-anthony-weiners-sex-scandal/