Some couples who are into a monogamous marriage are putting their relationship to test by adopting a swingers' lifestyle. Swinging is essentially a non-monogamous behavior where partners agree as a couple to engage in sexual activities with other couples as a form of recreation or socialization. Most participating couples are introduced through swingers' clubs or websites that promote the swinging lifestyle.
Many couples have been encouraged to go into swinging in an attempt to add spice to their otherwise routine, if not boring sex life. Whether or not they will succeed in reviving their marriage or totally destroying it depends on the acceptability of the option to both parties. Forced participation dooms the option from the very start and will not serve any purpose but to widen the gap which is already existing between spouses.
Others have an idea that swinging can help prevent cheating in marriage. This thinking is based on the logic that spouses have no need to look for extra-marital relationships since both are giving each other approval to have sexual relations with others as long as they are done with the knowledge of the other. Cheating occurs in this set-up when a spouse decides to carry on with the sexual relations with a specific swinging partner without the consent of the legal spouse thereby creating an exclusive emotional attachment.
While most practicing swingers swear by the advantage of swinging in their lives, many have given up the practice because of recurring problems of jealousy and low self-esteem. There are also risks specific to non-monogamous sexual relationships such as getting sexually-transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies. Swingers clubs however, are quick to defend swinging as a safer option to get sexual activity outside marriage since most of them require STD testing and use of protection or contraception.
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