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Say It Out Loud: Face Value Communication
Here's a newsflash: Your partners cannot read your mind. I repeat: Your partners cannot read your mind. A fundamental tenet of any satisfactory relationship is communication. The tricky part is even...
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Cooper Answers a Savage Love Question With Dan Savage
Hey all! Cooper here. I was lucky enough to be asked to be a guest expert on Dan Savage's Savage Love column. This post originally appeared here on January 21, 2015 I live in a small city in a...
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Five Years On The Swingset – A Semifesto
Quite a bit of time has passed since I last put forth a manifesto, a why I do what I do statement. I thought, on the occasion of Swingset’s fifth birthday and 200th episode, it’d be worth some...
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The Cold War Between Sex, Stress, and Depression
Over nearly my entire life, at least since going through puberty at an early age, there’s been a cold war brewing in my mind and body between sex, stress and depression. There is a seemingly...
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Lift Up Your Hands – A Review of Hedwig and The Angry Inch on Broadway
Nearly a month has passed, and the show has not left my mind. Not even close. Thanks to my incredible constant, my generous wife Ophilia, I was able to see John Cameron Mitchell perform the titular...
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Sperm Wars: Cuckolds, Threesomes and Evolutionary Biology
Originally posted on Doctor Susan Block's Journal Most men are excited by the idea of their women being with other men. Yes, most. They may or may not actually like it. But many an otherwise sensible...
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#SexTalkTuesday with Life on the Swingset!
We took over #SexTalkTuesday to discuss sexual fuckit lists, answer questions about Risk-Aware Sex, explore the discussion about Bisexual Men in the lifestyle, how we define Orgies, and labels! You can...
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The Problems with Peeple
Hurray! By now you’ve probably heard that the app you’ve never wanted, the one that allows every rando you’ve ever had an interaction with to publicly pass judgment on you, is finally becoming a...
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First Time Advice for Nervous Newbies
The swinging lifestyle is intriguing, exciting and a little intimidating. While swingers are, by their nature, a friendly and welcoming bunch, the experience can still be a little nerve-wracking for...
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The Best Sex Toys In Cooper’s Toybox – Sex Toy Recommendations
Well, the holiday season is here. Whatever holiday you're celebrating, even if it's just the celebration that this year is almost fucking done, it's not a bad time to buy someone you love, or like, or...
View Article10 Sexy Last Minute Valentine’s Gift Ideas
Valentine’s day is just around the corner. Here are some last minute gift ideas for those of you still looking for the perfect sexy gift. Amazon.com is a great place for gifts if you find you’ve missed...
View ArticleA Life Less Monogamous – A Novel About Swinging by Cooper S. Beckett –...
This project has been unlike any other I’ve thus far undertaken. A Life Less Monogamous began its life as a screenplay I wrote back, in my early days of swinging, pre-Life on the Swingset and other...
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SS 241: Men, We Need To Talk.
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. Our...
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Taking Time Off
I've been podcasting with Cooper and Ginger on Life on the Swingset for six full years. With Shira, Miko it's been a little less. I've edited the audio for the podcast for more than five years, and...
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SS 273: Cybersecurity for our Naughty Bits, aka: Bring on 2017
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 about...
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YoungCouplesParty.com – A Review by Dylan Thomas
It’d been a while since I attended an event at a local swing club; sexy travel, family obligations, local partners and sports ate up my free time. With 2019 being new, I decided to to get back in the...
View ArticleFun Ways To Share Sex Toys In A Threesome
Swinging. Threesomes. Sex Toys. What do all of these things have in common? They all give “rise” to exhilarating sexual experiences! If you're already a seasoned pro at swinging twosomes, then getting...
View ArticleMasturbation Doesn’t Mean Solo Sex Anymore – Here’s Why
Say the words masturbation out loud and you can rest assured that anyone within earshot will immediately think of a solitary person sitting in a room giving in to their desires for some sexual release....
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Review: DiGiT, by Hot Octopuss
We are fans of our hands. It seems obvious, but our hands are the most versatile sex toys we have. With patience, care, imagination, and stamina they can do nearly anything any other part of our body...
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Automatic Sex Toys That Mimic The Real Thing
We are fortunate enough to be living in a time defined by cultural innovation and technological advances, and naturally, this has led to the creation of a whole new generation of high-tech sex toys!...
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