SLS.com Do you practice the swinging lifestyle? Or have you ever considered swapping partners with another horny local couple? It was tough to find like-minded swingers before the Internet, but we've come a long way since the days of awkwardly asking coworkers if their wives would DTF, haven't we? You wouldn't risk being sued for sexual harassment or getting an uppercut for mistakenly saying you wanted to fuck an old lady. Today I'd like to introduce you to a website that aims to make this complicated and painful process much less complicated.

SwingLifestyle.com bills itself as "one of the most active lifestyle groups on the Internet," which means that it is a huge online swinger community that spans the globe. It's one thing to say your site is big and available to everyone in the world, but it's quite another to make it a reality. The beauty of Swing Lifestyle is that it has been around for decades and attracts large numbers of swingers who want to hook up with each other. With hundreds of thousands of visitors daily, it is clearly not a ghost town.

Where the swingers are.

The SwingLifestyle.com domain was registered in 2001 and the copyright notice at the bottom dates back to 1998. Frankly, it looks like it does. The design is a bit old and crummy, with a mediocre layout, Geocities-era background patterns, and a terrible logo. The motto is "Start Your Sexual Revolution," but the rainbow-colored people with their hands raised in the logo look like a team of motivational speakers who travel to high schools, offices, and hotel conference rooms across the country.

I've spent years reviewing the best (and sometimes the worst) adult sites on the Web, and I've come to realize that outdated representation is not necessarily a bad thing, especially when it comes to sites with real longevity and popularity like this site. If SwingerLifestyle were a new site and looked like this, I would say much worse. Instead, it has a bit of old-fashioned charm and authenticity. A site like this would not survive this long without a lot of work, and the lack of flashy presentation shows that they are more concerned with satisfying their users than making money, right?

As far as users are concerned, up-to-date statistics are available, which, frankly, are more appealing than expensive, glittery presentations. Any type of community site thrives on a large and active user base, and Swing Lifestyle's user base is huge, active and growing. As I write this, there are currently 9423 swingers online, and this week 4855 have registered and joined over 16,000 swingers groups worldwide.

Swinger Resources, Clubs and Parties

SwingLifestyle.com, like all websites, is designed to be used by registered members. Nevertheless, there is a significant amount of content available for those who have yet to take the first step. This includes a number of articles, stories, blogs, and other free swinger materials.

The blog is a bit out of date; the most recent article was added about four months ago. The Swinging Lifestyle blog and article section has a large amount of useful and relevant information, including the benefits of morning sex for lifestyle swinger couples, tips and tricks for keeping your partner engaged during sexting, dealing with jealousy in a swinger relationship The site is also a great source of information about the benefits of swingers.

The Swinger Stories archive is deeper than you might imagine, with over 17,000 erotic stories posted to date. The latest, which were added literally hours ago, include romance, swingers, exposures, masturbation, and MILFs, just to name a few of the tags. Frankly, I thought this section would be a throwaway, but it's a full-fledged erotic story library, organized by a wealth of tags, making it easy to dig through the mountain of stuff.

Browsing through SwingLifestyle.com, I found that much of the site can be accessed without registering for an account. In fact, some of the most useful sections were loaded with links to regional swinger groups, swinger clubs, and swinger parties in every state and around the world. Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and a half-dozen other countries are listed, but there is definitely more action in the United States, at least in Swing Lifestyle.

Sign up for a closer look

SwingLifestyle was reviewed shortly after the site went down due to security issues and is still in the process of partially restoring the site. There is a message about it at the top of the forum area, which is now one of the site's members-only services. There are a variety of actions going on in the forum. Non-members can see the titles of posts, but most content is blocked unless you are a member.

To enter the forum, you must register for an account. A basic account is free, but many features are restricted to free users. For example, you must upgrade to a paid membership in order to actually post on the forum.

Signing up for a SwingLifestyle account is easy. You choose a name, give your email address, and answer a few simple questions about who you are and what you are looking for. Of course, since this is a swinger site, you can sign up as an individual or as a couple. After selecting your smoking, drinking, and happening preferences from the drop-down menus, you fill in more specifics about your personal information, desires, and fantasies.

You will then receive a confirmation email and have to wait for someone to manually approve your profile. In the meantime, the moment you finish filling out the form, they will set up an upsell. The checklist outlines the benefits of free and paid memberships. Signing up for the "Life of Website" plan ($179) offers benefits not available to regular members, such as approving new members and new public images, and being the first to access new upgrades. Regular memberships start at $20 per month, but you can save if you sign up for a longer term; $70 for a year.

Meet the Perfect Swinger and Local Couple

The best reason to sign up for SwingLifestyle is the thousands and thousands of swinger profiles. Free users are locked out of the more exciting and interesting features like nudes, private photos, and messages. Basically, you can look, but if you are not willing to pay, it is much harder to play. At various places on the site they say it's because of new laws enacted by the US government. Thanks, Uncle Sam. Apparently they have recently moved to a business model of mostly pay-as-you-go, which is exactly the kind of party I'm late to.

And what a shitty party it is. Many sites pretend that I am in the nearest major city, when in fact I am 50 miles away. I'm in the suburbs to be exact, so typing in my real location makes it hard to find local fun on most sites. However, it is clear that Swing Lifestyle has built a strong reputation among the swinger community. Free users are limited to 50 search results, but in my case I easily reached the maximum until I used stronger and more specific search criteria and that is after entering my real location. It seems my neighbors were more perverse than I thought.

For most users, the profile section of SwingLifestyle.com will undoubtedly be the biggest draw of the site. Free users can't send messages, so it will cost at least $20 to really take advantage of the site, but the odds are definitely better than a premium account on Tinder. iOS and Android apps are also available to make it easier You can also use the site for free. Even if you don't become a paid member, there are plenty of useful and interesting resources for those interested in the swinging lifestyle.