A swingers club opening should make the news and this story is no different, read this BBC Story entitled: Fears over village swingers’ club and another story entitled: Swingers’ Clubs Complaints from the This is Cornwall website. Located in north Devon, UK, Club Vanilla owner Roger Stanbury said the premises in Horswell near Bishops Tawton are fulfilling a need in the area. We think that it may attract non lifestyle people by mistake based on it’s name, but make no mistake, this is a swingers club. Complete with erotic areas, a jacuzzi, dance floor, DJ, exotic floor show and a themed cocktail on arrival.

Schenectady, NY, USA - In a list of top places most of us probably have never heard of, Schenectady, NY, according to Google maps is about 3 hours north of New York city. If you are your other half or perhaps just yourself have wanted to be a lifestyle business owner, this may be your chance. The owner of the Union Street Bed & Breakfast has just put the B&B up for sale on the MLS (could not locate listing sorry) as well as being offered on the Collar City Auctions website. If you are looking for more information, you can also read an article from the Times Union. According to the listing, the asking price is slightly over 250 thousand USD and revenues of about 100 thousand USD per year.

Russell Goldman of ABC news wrote a story last summer called Are Open Marriages More Successful Than Traditional Couplings? It’s about swingers and even touches on the topic of Polyamory slightly. I’ll warn you right now, the link to read the exclusive interview with Gay Talese is dead, but I persisted and was able to find the mentioned interview here. It’s always nice to get the lifestyle mentioned in any news media, but to have the big boys reporting on it can only help increase our member base.

It seems that across every continent on the planet, swingers are inspiring the same kind of ‘moral’ talks. South Africa has a very active scene it seems since this article discusses a swingers home that is just too busy for the neighbours tastes. If there were an award for most original reason to get shut down swingers parties, this quote would surely win: “Poulton added that he feared the moral decay would affect property value in the area.”

A new study out of Washington by Canadian and American scientists revealed that the best sex lasts only minutes. Soon to be published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine and reported in Science Daily, this study is good for those of us putting our ’sexual skills’ out there not knowing how good long or short we should actually go. This reminds me of a time when the male half of a couple approached me bragging about his ten plus hours sexual escapade the week-end before. I didn’t say anything at the time, but I secretly wondered to myself if I was strange for thinking that is just not my idea of having a good time. Here is a story based on this study, which includes a great comment about the death of ‘male enhancement’ spam messages!

At the end of 2007, Penthouse plopped down $500 million in cash and shares for full control of Various Inc. which is the company that runs and controls Adult FriendFinder. We are personally looking forward to it as many will agree the powers that be and the staff on this site need a kick in the ass! Should be some great changes coming as well as a whole slew of bonus content as we get access to the Penthouse archives! First reports seem to indicate business as usual with not many changes (if any) coming down the pipeline.

Northbrook, Ill., husband Arthur Friedman persuaded his wife that after 10 years of marriage, they should become mate-swapping swingers, which he thought would enhance their relationship. His wife, reluctant at first, began to participate and eventually fell in love with another swinging husband, an event that precipitated the Friedmans’ breakup, reported the Chicago Sun-Times. Friedman, with an inadequate appreciation of irony, sued the husband under Illinois’ alienation-of-affection law, and in June, a jury actually found in his favor, for $4,802. However, the soon-to-be-divorced Mrs. Friedman said she felt humiliated by the implication that she had been “worth” just $480 a year.

Kasidie is a new kid on the block when it comes to lifestyle related offerings but is here to play with the big boys. We have been members of this site since the beginning and can say that the content here is never stale. The site, just like a magazine gets new photos and content updated on a regular basis, which include such fun things as crossword puzzles, unicorn and couple of the month. As well as an on-going invitation to apply to become a Kasidie girl. Great looking site, well designed with easy navigation but promises of an up-coming forum have been there since day one as well as when you click to meet other couples, you are given a choice to visit some third party swingers websites. The only way to actually view profiles of other couples on this site is to rate photos in the flash’em section. You can then click to view the profile via the couples flash’em photo. However, there is still no way to actually contact someone since that feature is currently not activated. I’m sure this was built-into the site for future growth, but it would be nice to know what they have in mind. Well worth the visit, bookmark and come back monthly.

Apparently this groups of ’swingers’ were running a club in Mineola, Texas and having children perform sex shows on the side. After spending quite a while trying to find this club, I have come to the conclusion that it was not a a real swingers club, but just a bunch of sickos. These people were most likely posing as a swingers club as a cover, boy that’s a new take on covert operations. The good news is that they were convicted (link includes video) and as a follow up, another person was also convicted. Cannot believe that they are dragging swingers through the mud with this bullshit, as I have never heard of swingers and pedophilia being related!?!

Everyday I learn something new by doing research for interesting topics to post on this site. Today is no exception as I learned that if ever I visit Ireland, I should be heading to the Inishowen area. Here’s an article that is what you would expect of a typical story about the lifestyle, swingers who say the world is changing, and ignorant locals that say wrong is wrong because they are the moral majority. I love the fact that folks are travelling in busloads to attend parties in this area! Interested in meeting other Irish swingers? Then head over to swing4Ireland and take a look at what Ireland’s number one swinging site has to offer.

We can’t speak for the past (read: before Internet) but have friends who have been in the lifestyle longer than the Internet has been around. They confirm that it was very difficult if next to impossible to actually make good connections. Maybe that’s why now that most of us like minded people have a computer that businesses have caught on that offering adult themed venues to spend our money will not be a waste. Cruises, resorts, camping, conventions, clubs, magazines, websites, books, DVDs, pod-casts, help, advice, how-to’s and the list goes on for all the products and services now available to swingers from all walks of life. This news story ‘Swingers Are Growth Business for U.S. Firms‘ was written in the summer of 2007 but still relevant.

I’ve never heard of Stuart Jacobson until I read this news article. I decided to do a bit more research and turns out he’s an interesting fellow. He is a comic songwriter, emcee, writer, speaker, and celebrity to the lifestyle. If you are interested in finding out how he got started and more, go read his blog. I said he was interesting, and here is some more proof, take a look at his varied skills on this promo page I found. Finally, there is a hard to find CD called -Romance Theater-.

It took a while to go through this npr story which includes many audio snippets as well as a discussion on the topic of vice. It’s well worth the bookmark for later reading if you don’t have the time right now. There is a sample chapter included and of course swingers are featured to my delight. Any promotion of the lifestyle is good news in our book and this book (pun intended) seems to put across similar values as we have as far as swinging and the lifestyle is concerned. You can purchase the book from Amazon and while you are there, take a look at over a dozen reviews for the book, and only one of which is not favorable. You can also peek inside the book while there as this one has been scanned for a free preview! Find another review here by Harriet Klausner who is a real bookworm. Should be a great read as Peter Sagal is a radio host and book author, the book itself is a hard cover 272 pages long and I don’t know if it will see the light of day as an ebook anytime soon?

Couples International has made headlines lately because of changes to their business type. The clubs owners Bryan and Leesa Horn are trying to have their venue recognized as more of a nightclub type than your typical swingers club. It is still a place where adults can come to have sex if they so choose. A blog called: Emily Everywhere has lots of discussion on this as well as a video interview with the club owners. It’s always nice to see what the regular folks think about swingers once they go beyond the stereotypes. You can read an article as well as view the club’s website.

In an obvious attention grab, what should of been a simple assault story uses sex to get more attention. It’s just too bad they only ever talk about the swinging lifestyle when trying to shock people. Aren’t there any reporters out there that actually want to cover the news about the lifestyle as it really happens? You can read about it here where you will see a photo of the suspect’s house and here where you can see a photo of the offender himself. Sidenote, when I posted this, the swingers story was in the list of that day’s top viewed stories! Things that make you go hmmm…

I have heard of Wichita, Kansas before as I’m a bit of a geography buff, but to be honest, I had to check an online map to find out where it is. Let’s just say that if a Canadian were to drive straight south from Winnipeg, Manitoba he would hit Wichita as soon as he got just below the mid-way point in the USA…in other words in the middle of nowhere. Four undercover police officers made the arrest at a west end club (Paul’s Place). Just makes you wonder how long they spent watching before deciding to put an end to the fun? You can read the very short and not much actual news story here.

John Stossel is my favorite 20/20 news person and I was happy to find out he covered this story when it was originally published back on March 18, 2005.  They cover the basics of what one would expect such as: making or breaking marriages, travel industry now waking up and catering to lifestylers, women’s lib, and marriage counsellors thrown in for good measure. Strangely enough, there have been no comments posted on this article, pro or con. Read the story.

A newspaper in New York state reports of a Bed and Breakfast owner being hassled by the powers that be in city hall. The owner of the Union Street Bed & Breakfast reports getting nasty letters, having to deal with zoning issues, protests and the list goes on. A big ‘atta boy’ goes out to him for keeping his parties going knowing full well he isn’t doing anything wrong, as mentionned in the article…swinging isn’t illegal. Not sure how much longer this page will stay up as it’s no longer being linked from the main site, but it’s a good laugh if you know how to read between the lines! Read the news story here.