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It seems everywhere you look now, you see or hear something about swingers. Swinging is what was once referred to as “wife swapping”, involving couples who exchange spouses for sexual trysts. Swinger clubs have appeared in cities just about anywhere. In Montreal, Canada, there’s even one club in a major nightlife zone whose signage makes no bones what it’s about. The thing is, even though swingers have their own places to practice their lifestyle, a large number of them frequent nudist venues as well. Now, true nudism isn’t about sex in the least, but swingers are tolerated amongst us so as long they’re not using our clubs for “recruitment”! We’re constantly spouting to the media about how wholesome our lifestyle is, so we don’t want anything to taint our reputation or scare new members away forever. Usually, you wouldn’t know that a couple is of the swinging persuasion, but there are some amongst them who are virulent! This editor remembers that my most ugly encounter with swingers happened a few years ago at serene Cypress Cove, a resort known for its family values. The male of a swinger couple made known his interest for my beautiful girlfriend, acting lewdly in full view of many. We paid him no heed and went off to the restaurant for dinner, and next thing you know, this idiot is at the restaurant window with his female companion looking in and pointing us out to her. I’ll cut the story short here, but needless to say, the randy chap was warned to behave and he did, but the incident put a damper on our stay. I also recall one time while we were relaxing on Haulover beach in Miami when a fellow was handing out flyers advertising a new swingers club. We’re nudists, damn it, not sex maniacs!! Nudist Day has this message for swingers: do as you please on your own turf, but when on ours…Check your sexuality at the door!
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We know why we are at a nudist resort, if swingers wish to attend, the clubs like their money too. We all know there are actually a large percentage of swingers and nudist resorts as most everyone is already naked. Just simply, if approached, say no thank you, we are just nudists…enjoy! You do want them coming back and spending money at the resorts.
True, but neither should nudist clubs be recruiting grounds for lifestyles. If someone wants to swing they’ll go to a swingers club, not a naturist one.
Good posting but we have to disagree with the statement that swingers will go only to swinger clubs; that’s part of the problem. Swingers who also enjoy the nudist lifestyle have many more options to be nude in naturist venues than in swinger clubs.
From our experience, they mainly behave themselves and are fine to be around, and don’t necessarily advertise their lifestyle. We’ve had no problem with them being over-pushy (except for the guy you mentioned, I think he’s everywhere!)and have befriended some. They are actually just like ‘real’ people, other than their view of relationships. And no, we don’t play.
We have no problem with them as long as they behave, just like anyone else. There’s room under the nudist/naturist umbrella for many types of people as long as we can agree to maintain standards of behavior that we would be proud to demonstrate to the outside world.
Clubs purporting to be ‘nudist’ but actually swinger are a different matter all together. We cannot stop them from using the term ‘nudist’, but it causes great harm to the movement in general. A swinger may also be a nudist, but most nudists are not swingers. But public perception may see it that way if the terms are used interchangably by clubs.
There’s a Croatian cruise line that billed itself as ‘nudist swinger cruises’ until we convinced them that it was in their best interest to separate the two, and they did in separate websites. We CAN work together.
Now, we know of a resort in Wisconsin which promotes itsef as family nudist, and is a wonderful place to go. It is, however, largely made up of swingers but you wouldn’t know it. Their policy is to keep that behavior private, and it works for them.
There’s another club here that goes out of its way to be as ‘out there’ as possible. Not nudist; just naked people playing sex games. But they call themselves ‘nudist’. Not good.
So it’s not all cut and dried. We can work together to preserve our ‘clean’ nudist reputation if we respect each other’s space and remember that it behooves all of us to keep the nudist and swinger lifestyles in their proper places.