British Swingers: Two Million and Counting
Posted By jss on March 14, 2009
When I throw into casual conversation some of the membership numbers associated with social-sexual networking web sites, some people boggle and others scoff.
“I call bullshit,” was one comment when I posted the per capita membership of Adult Friendfinder by state recently. Someone didn’t believe that 12 percent of adult Alaskans and seven percent of Americans over the age of 18 would be members of AFF.
The things is — there is a big picture. There is a lot of corroboratory evidence to indicate that the number of people in the U.S. and other countries who do not have single-partner sex lives is much higher than popularly imagined. I’m not listing it all in a blog post; that it is there is, in part, why I’m writing Into Temptation.
In the United Kingdom, onepoll.com reports that two million British couples have tried swinging and that six million people more are tempted to try it. In Manchester, U.K., 15 percent of couples have reportedly tried swinging.
Yes, it’s reported in a tabloid, and the polling was done online. No, I don’t have the methodology. It’s just another data point.
Now, AFF says it has 2.8 million members in the U.K. That would include singles, couples, everyone.
Obviously, not all swingers or wannabes or swinger-curious types in the U.K. belong to AFF. But the numbers make sense, all taken together.
When you take in all the data points — wherever you may be, there are a lot more folks with alternative sexual lifestyles around than is generally acknowledged. Online, the numbers and the body of evidence associated with the numbers are growing all the time.
"Into Temptation" is a usually-but-not-always safe-for-work forum about evolving social-sexual networks and how they have changed and are changing lives. It will also loosely chronicle the research, writing and publication, I hope in 2011, of a book by the same name.
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