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To think we might have met some swingers?

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hf128219 · 05/08/2012 22:36

This is not a joke. We have made some new friends recently - very nice couple, lots in common etc. It's just that I am very astute on picking up on certain things and I am sure they want us to swing with them.

It's just things they say, looks they give - and even today the actual subject was brought up on the pretext of talking about a friend of theirs who swings.

If anyone reads this does swing how do people invite others to swing? Apart from car keys/pampas grass.

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hf128219 · 05/08/2012 23:03

I do know the difference between swinging and dogging!

In some ways there isn't that much of a difference. All down to shagging someone you don't know.

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MrsKeithRichards · 05/08/2012 23:05

So you think they are into dogging?

Either way, what's the problem?

BonkeyHasGOLDMollocks · 05/08/2012 23:05

But with swinging there is a good chance you may know the other couple.

Dogging, surely you just go out looking for randoms and a hot dog after

Cherubim · 05/08/2012 23:06

Oh - I was confused, you see, as you said

Noqontrol · 05/08/2012 23:06

Do they have pampas grass in their front garden? Grin

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hf128219 · 05/08/2012 23:10

I have been checking out google and found this venue near where we live

  • Changing,cloak room.
  • Conservatory for smokers.
  • 2 Toilets.
  • Shower Room. (Please bring your own Toiletries & TOWELS)
  • Free off street parking - turn right after the XXXXXXX Inn on XXXX Street

That is (I think) the local Quaker Meeting House!!

I am not bothered about what they do/with whom - what I am worried about is being friendly with people who are expecting a lot more.

I am not interested!

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BonkeyHasGOLDMollocks · 05/08/2012 23:11

Then just tell then that if it comes up.

Cherubim · 05/08/2012 23:11

I think you need them to ask you before you can turn them down!

BertieBotts · 05/08/2012 23:12

DP got propositioned by some swingers the other night, he's working abroad at the moment.

He regaled the story of his "weird night out" to me later and I was like Shock maybe they were swingers! And he said "Oh. Actually that would make a lot of sense."

He hadn't noticed!

usualsuspect · 05/08/2012 23:14

Theres shagging in the local Quaker meeting house? Shock

WorraLiberty · 05/08/2012 23:14

I am not bothered about what they do/with whom - what I am worried about is being friendly with people who are expecting a lot more.

Then that's their problem isn't it, if you haven't given them any reason to think you're after more? Confused

I don't get all the Googling behind their backs...honestly swingers won't be like some embarrassed sniggering teenagers if you ask them outright.

They might however tell you to mind your own business Wink

WorraLiberty · 05/08/2012 23:15

Theres shagging in the local Quaker meeting house?

Fucking hell

That brings a new meaning to the phrase 'stirring the porridge'....

MrsKeithRichards · 05/08/2012 23:16

So you google and find what sounds like a swingers club nearby... And?

thenightsky · 05/08/2012 23:18
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hf128219 · 05/08/2012 23:18

Go and sit outside and see who goes in/comes out?

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usualsuspect · 05/08/2012 23:18

Surely not in the quaker meeting house.

BonkeyHasGOLDMollocks · 05/08/2012 23:18

I have all sorts of clubs nearby.

Google anything and you will have one close, I can would almost put my life on it!

Pumpster · 05/08/2012 23:19

Lynn these are sex people!!

arthurfowlersallotment · 05/08/2012 23:20

White rocks and gnomes in the front lawn= swingers apparently...

solidgoldbrass · 05/08/2012 23:20

Maybe they are. Most swingers these days use the internet/swinging clubs to find people to play with, but sometimes we might meet some people through non-swinging circumstances that we think we'd like to shag. So the bringing-it-into-conversation might well be a way of carefully sounding you out and seeing how you react and they will only proceed if they get an enthusiastic response. They won't want to upset you, but nor will they want you to run off and tell everyone that Tommy and Tammy are sexual deviants! Waaah!

How do you feel about the idea, do you want to try swinging? More to the point, do you find them sexually attractive? If you really don't want to get up to anything with them, the polite thing to do is talk about how you and your H have eyes (and genitalia) for no one but each other; if you like these people as friends then it's worth mentioning that you wouldn't be interested in swinging yourself but you don't think there's anything wrong with other people doing it.

MrsKeithRichards · 05/08/2012 23:21

Op I wouldn't worry. The grass thing is a myth and the key thing was about wife swapping in the 70's. Swingers of the naughties will have much more high tech methods.

Cherubim · 05/08/2012 23:21

What did you say when they brought up the conversation before?

Cherubim · 05/08/2012 23:22

They're not going to jump on you, you know.... if they really are sounding you out, just make it clear that you're not interested.

Musomathsci · 05/08/2012 23:23

I guess if you were into it, you wouldn't be asking here. Tricky - we had a set of friends who I rather suspected were that way inclined, and to be honest, the whole idea made me very uncomfortable and I backed off and we don't see them any more. Trust your instincts. Could you one of them outright - maybe when speaking on the phone, so you don't immediately get into anything awkward? "You know you were talking about swinging the other night, I just wondered if that meant you were into it...?" or something along those lines. You've been given an excuse to ask, really, haven't you, and at least then you know one way or another and you can then do whatever you want, but continuing with these suspicions is going to make future interactions pretty uncomfortable, don't you think?

MrsKeithRichards · 05/08/2012 23:24

Why would you go and sit outside? How about leaving consenting adults alone to shag who they want and sleep easy. They aren't going to pounce on you.

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