Swingers Glossary - Swinging terms, jargon & swinging terminology

There are many swinging acronyms and terms you’ll come across. To make sure you know what your swinging friends are talking about, take a look at our swinging terms, jargon and terminology list for the terms you should know.

• AC/DC: Bisexual
• Accom: Someone who can accommodate
• All cultures: Someone who enjoys all fetishes
• Anal: Anal intercourse
• B&D: Bondage and discipline
• BBW: Big beautiful woman.
• Bi: Bisexual
• Bizarre: Unusual sexual fantasies and desires.
• Bondage: Involving ropes, leather or tying up. One person is usually submissive, and the other dominant.
• Can travel: Someone who can travel
• Caning: A spanking fetish with cane.
• Cheating: Self explanatory. When someone is cheating on their partner.
• Clean: Someone disease and drug free.
• Closed swinging: Also known as closed door swinging, it is when the members of a couple have sex in different rooms
• Closet swinger: Not admitting you’re a swinger
• Community swinger: Someone who adopts the swinging lifestyle
• Couple (or CPL): Male and female couple.
• French culture: Oral sexual activity
• Greek culture: Anal sexual activity
• Roman culture: Orgies and group sex
• Swedish culture: Use of massage to sexually arouse.
• Cunnilingus: Oral sex on a female.
• Dildo: Artificial, rubber penis.
• Discipline: Fetish where one partner dominates the other.  Usually involves spanking and pain
• Discretion: Those who don’t tell others about their lifestyle or wish to remain private. May have children.
• Docile: Individual who receives bondage. Also known as submissive.
• Domestic training: Submissive who is obedient and may involve humiliation.
• Dominant: Partner in control of submissive.
• Endowed: Referring to a generous proportion, such as penis or breasts.
• Exhibitionist: Person who enjoys and gets pleasure out of having sex in front of others.
• Fetish: Arousal through non genital contact or non sexual objects.
• First timers: Couples or individuals who are looking for their first swinging experience.
• Flagellation: Sexual arousal though pain.
• Gay: Homosexual.
• Group room: A room for orgies and group swinging.
• Group sex: Sex between 3 or more people
• Hardcore: Where sexual activity is assumed.
• Hedonist:  Someone whose purpose is to experience pleasure.
• Heterosexual: When you’re attracted to people of the opposite sex.
• Homosexual: When you’re attracted to people of the same sex.
• Horny: Sexual anticipation
• Host: Someone whose home is used as a venue.
• Hung: Someone with a large penis.         
• Masochism: Sexual pleasure from humiliating others or receiving humiliation.
• Master slave relationship: Bondage or discipline in a relationship.
• Menage a trios: French for 3 people having sex. A threesome.
• Moresomes: More than 3 people having sexual activity.
• Newcomers: People who are first timers.
• NSA: No strings attached.
• Open swinging or open door swinging: When couples have sex with others in their partner’s presence.
• Orgy: Group sex.
• Party: Where a party is held in the purpose of the participants ending up swinging.
• Passive: Someone who is submissive.
• Pro: People who are paid.
• Recreational swingers: Swingers who swing for pleasure with no desire for emotional relationships.
• Restraint: Mild bondage:
• Rubber: Condoms.
• Safe: Somone who uses condoms.
• S&M: Sadism and Masochism
• Single: Without a partner, whether single or married.
• Social: Social interaction only.
• Soft swinging: Where sexual activity does not include penetrative sex.
• STD: Sexually Transmitted Disease.
• Straight: Heterosexual.
• Swapping: When couples exchange their partners for sexual activity.
• Swinging: Sexual recreation amongst men and women.
• Submissive: Someone who is passive.
• TG: Transgender.
• Threesome: 3 people having sexual activity together
• Toys: Sexual aids.
• Travel: Someone who can travel.
• Triad: 3 people who may or may not include a couple who purport themselves as 3 people willing to meet others for sex.
• Voluptuous: A curvy, well proportioned woman.
• Voyeur: Someone who enjoys watching others.
• VWE: Very well endowed
• VVWE: Very, very well endowed