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Swinging is "the recreation" for couples whether they are married, committed
(having an ongoing emotional commitment), living together (co-habitating, with
or without an on-going intimate relationship) or single couples who date. A
study of swinging couples (McGinley, 1979) reported increased enjoyment and
satisfaction in the relationships accompanied by a better understanding of self
and mate, greater intimacy between the partners and a decrease in sex role
playing and sexist expectations.
Swinging enables a couple to explore
sexual and social feelings and needs together, permitting a demystification of
sex which allows sex to assume a place in the relationship unhindered by the
standard ties to love, duty, sex roles and morals of others.
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