Swinging... AKA Multiple Moving Parts...
also known as wife swapping or partner swapping is a non-monogamous behavior, in
which partners in a committed relationship engage in sexual activities with others as a
recreational or social activity.[
The phenomenon of swinging, or at least its wider discussion and practice, is regarded
by some as arising from the freer attitudes to sexual activity after the sexual revolution
of the 1960s, the invention and availability of the contraceptive pill and the emergence
of treatments for many of the sexually transmitted diseases that were known at that
time.
The swinger community sometimes refers to itself as "the lifestyle", or as "the
alternative lifestyle". The term "wife swapping" or "partner swapping" is criticized
for not accurately describing the full range of sexual activities in which both singles or
couples may engage, which is not limited to conventional sex with a person other than
their regular sex partner. Other terms sometimes encountered are wife sharing,
partner sh