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Simply add a form of payment and pay only 27¢ per article. For unlimited access to the best local, national, and international news and much more, try an All Access Digital subscription: Thank you for supporting the journalism that our community needs! Hey there, time traveller! And some say it's just now coming out of the closet. Kevin and his wife, a local business owner, have been married 20 years and swinging for nearly three. The Supreme Court of Canada ruled in 2005 that sexual activity between consenting adults in private clubs is legal, but Manitoba's liquor laws are another matter. Single women will be welcome, but single men will have limited access. There are currently at least two web-based swingers clubs in Winnipeg. Each has between 200 and 300 members. He points out that many swingers in the city rely on classified ads and websites like swingtown. He asked us not to print his group's website address in order to discourage gawkers, cheaters and others who aren't serious about the lifestyle. Serious swingers, you see, aren't simply looking to have sex with other people. Typically, they're married, emotionally monogamous, middle-aged, middle-class couples with families. And while it may seem counter-intuitive, they say they're having extra-marital sex in order to enhance their own relationship. They had another couple over for drinks and dinner, and then everyone ended up in the same bed. The backdrop of this conversation — stacks of folded laundry, piles of papers and books, toys, a big aquarium full of guppies — is decidedly more domestic than debaucherous. Twelve years later, it's still considered the definitive book on the subject. Thus, middle-aged, otherwise conservative wives can dress like Lady Gaga, flaunt themselves erotically on the dance floor with a dozen partners, and not worry about some aberrant masher spoiling the fun. They can express themselves bisexually or heterosexually with men and women of all ages, and then go back to work Monday morning. Their club holds about eight such events per year. From there, people who connect usually go off to a hotel or private residence or rent a room at Aquarius bath house. Quinn and Maggie have been married 15 years and have three children, ages 12 to 23. They got into the lifestyle four years ago after a spontaneous threesome with a female friend. Shortly after that happened, Quinn went up north to work for three months and returned to find his wife had signed them up with one of the local swingers clubs. Despite its early reputation, the lifestyle, Gould found, is largely controlled by women. They usually play around once a month although they went to back-to-back parties last weekend. And while orgies have broken out on occasion, it's a rare exception. Sometimes, a house party is just a house party. She and her husband, Troy, 35, have been swinging five of the six years they've been married. Their swinging circle is their social circle. There has to some connection, but it doesn't have to be a love connection. The ones we interviewed stressed that trust, openness, honesty and good communication are crucial to being able to get past the jealousies and insecurities that will inevitably arise. When you first start, you make rules and you say you can't kiss the other person and you can't go out of the room because I need to see you. And eventually that just goes out the window. And when the green-eyed monster rears it's head? I know who I'm going home with. I fell in love with him for a reason and that reason remains. It may be defined as recreational social sex. The activity may occur at a swing party, a couple-to-couple encounter, or with a third person in a threesome. Though single men and women are involved, it is primarily an activity of couples. The modern North American subculture evolved in the 1940s among Second World War airmen who brought their wives to live near their training bases in Canada and the U. Today, swingers have their own international overseeing organizations, travel agencies and resorts. They hold annual conventions at which as many as 3,000 couples take over entire hotel complexes for four days. Swingstock is an annual summer camp for swingers in the United States. This year's event, SexMas in July, takes place July 18-22 near Minneapolis, Minn. No actual swinging takes place on site. For more information on the lifestyle:.
