Polyamory is very different than swinging. While swinging is considered an “alternative lifestyle” (in fact swingers like to just refer to it as The Lifestyle) it is different from polyamory in several ways.
Swinging is mostly about sex, and usually takes place as a recreational and social activity between couples who are committed to being in a single romantic, emotional relationship, but enjoy having recreational sex with other people.
Swingers tend to be heterosexual, and have specific rules around sexual orientation, where women can have sex with either women or men outside the primary relationship, but men can only have sex with women.
For many people who are polyamorous, polyamory is as much, if not more, about the emotional relationships they have with others, than the sexual relationships. And sexuality is not identified as being specifically “recreational” in polyamorous relationships as it is in swinging relationships.
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