Swinging and the Safety of Safe Sex

Swingers who believe that safe sex is really safe are kidding themselves. Before you even think about getting into the swing scene, make sure you face up to this fact. There is no such thing as completely safe sex.
So does this mean that you should deny yourself the pleasures of the swinger lifestyle? If you can’t accept the possible consequences of your actions then the answer is yes. However, if you can face up to the fact that practically every enjoyable thing you do in life carries some risks with it but good safety practises can greatly reduce the risks, then indulging in the swingers’ lifestyle is something you can still feel perfectly okay about.
Safer sex is about reducing the risks to yourself and your partners to an absolute minimum and the statistical evidence about swinging in relation to sexually transmitted diseases shows that the risk is actually very low. You will find that the number of cases of sexually transmitted diseases originating from swinging is no higher than found in any other group of people from the population in general, whilst the incidents of HIV cases appears to be so low as to be statistically non-existent. The scientific research that has been carried out suggesting that being a swinger does not make getting HIV more likely can be summarised as follows:
 1.Countries that have large numbers of legal swingers clubs (e.g. Netherlands and Germany) do not report any increase in sexually transmitted infections in the areas where the clubs are located nor do these countries have a higher rate of infections generally.
 2. The only recorded case of HIV transmission that can directly be associated with swinger club activity, also happened to involve unprotected anal sex with bi-sexual males. Two female members of an American swingers club contracted HIV in 1986. Both had been exposed to repeated sessions of unprotected anal sex with two bi-sexual men. In neither case was the virus passed on any further.
So if the swinger life style feels right for you just make sure you are happy to accept that ‘Safe Sex’ really means ‘Safer Sex’. When you swing, do it as safely as possible and remind others to do the same. Statistics have proved that it is possible to enjoy swinging without risking any higher incidence of STDs than would be found in the population as a whole. Lets keep it that way.