I believe that swinging is a state of mind. Whether you are non-monogamous or just like variety or love the sexually charged environment to the point where you are unable to stay away from… it is a state of mind or a part of you that is always present.
Let me explain this again… I crave variety of partners. I was married for 23 years, with my husband 24 years before we ever talked about swinging. However, it does not mean that I hadn’t lusted after or wanted to explore something with a coworker or think about a stranger I ran across… I admit that I have never done anything other than think and possibly flirt… but then again… I flirt with cashiers and other people all the time… a part of me… but there was always something about me that wanted to look at and want another person. I thought of fucking other men… I thought of playing with women… That was a state of my mind… something that took a great hold in my brain… hell, I even wrote stories about it… about wanting a MFM, FF, group sex… and all kinds of interesting things… I read books and got so turned on by the naughty fun written…
My body and my brain craves variety… and more importantly… it is a part of my life now…
I have stated many times, I have no idea if I could ever stop being a swinger. I may get to a point where I can’t have sex anymore with other swingers… for obvious reasons… when you get to a certain age and you look like your age… the demand for play is less by others… and it changes how it manifests itself… but I do not think I could ever get rid of my swinger state of mind. This means… I think I will always think about non-monogamy and the joys I received while swinging… the sex… the conversation… the variety… it all plays a part in this state of mind…
I have talked to people in their 60s, 70s, and 80s that are very much still enjoying the swinger state of mind. They enjoy going to parties and clubs… even though they know people won’t be interested in fucking them… the sexual vibe that they find there is what they crave. They may end up having sex with each other… but they all have stated that they can’t stop being a swinger even if they don’t technically swing…
That to me says it is a state of mind… it is a part of who they are… and whether they have sex with other swingers or they just like to have the environment around them… well, to them it is a state of mind.
Monogamy is a state of mind just as non-monogamy is a state of mind. It is something you choose or have chosen for you… Society has made monogamy the preferred state of being… not going to give you a bible lesson… but… it is there… we choose to follow society rules… whether marriage is good and multiple marriages are bad… unless of course… multiple marriages are excused and getting married young is good and getting married older is bad… unless waiting until later is better than getting married young…
Cheating is bad… unless you are a swinger, then you swinging with your spouse is worse than cheating on your spouse…
All because today society says… this is how you must be…
But how does that really impact how you think… how you feel you are inside… outside of the view of society?
That is what makes swinging a state of mind… the fact that society says you must be monogamous… and you can’t fight the desire for variety… that you can’t fight the need for having sex with others. That your wandering eye is not a sign of disrespect to your partner as much as it is a part of who you are… enjoying the ‘eye candy’. Flirting with others is as natural to you as breathing… and you don’t really see why flirting with other men or women is so wrong… going to a club or party and getting ‘high’ off the sexual vibes is a great deal of fun… almost addictive…
This is a state of mind… something that you crave… you want… you need… you explore… you… well, let’s just look at the definition of state of mind…
Attitude, perspective, outlook, approach, mood, disposition, frame of mind, mindset, way of looking at things
I laughed at some of the folks on the forums who stated it was not a state of mind. One response was something about how they never purchased an alcoholic beverage or rented a hotel room for a state of mind… and yet, people do every single day for a variety of things – sports, business, hobbies, and so on that they are very much involved in… even a life-long learner (student)…
I actually felt bad for this person… they missed the entire point of asking the question… it was to see if they can see how their mindset, attitude, perspective, outlook, approach, mood, disposition, frame of mind, mindset, way of looking at things… why would the go to an event or on a couple date with the intention of fucking someone if not for a state of mind that “their mindset, attitude, perspective, outlook, approach, mood, disposition, frame of mind, mindset, way of looking at things” was geared for non-monogamy.
But anyways… when you look at something like swinging or more importantly non-monogamy as that is the basic element of getting into swinging… if you felt this way for a long time or just since someone mentioned it to you for the first time… and you feel this is something that you could do and feel good doing it… and you recognize it is a part of your personality, life, and state of mind… could you ever stop having that state of mind?
While we are looking at this… let’s look at all those swingers we see that take ‘breaks’ from swinging and yet, keep coming back to swinging. Why?
Why do they come back to swinging after a break?
Some will even remove their profiles and then get a new profile. Why? Because they can’t really move away from swinging completely or long term.
You read a number of profiles that say one of them swung before and one never had and they are both now into it… because they can’t stay away from it…
Well, I am going to stop here… I have more to write… but I will let this settle for a while… and then I will continue it in the next post.