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Another piece of intriguing terminology:
Swinging versus Polyamory.
It's been my thinking that swinging is mostly sex-based, and poly is more "loving relationship" based. However one defines that.
I had an aunt and uncle who were swingers for a LONG time. It's how the defined themselves, or identified...
Oddly though, I think in a way they fit poly more, perhaps. They had another couple that they were good friends with for decades, they'd go to "retreats" to have extramarital sex, and they'd "swap" with their friends. Outside of the adult environment of these little vacations, they were close friends. Only when they left real life and family behind did they explore the sex part of it. When they interacted outside of those trips, they were "just old friends" again.
I don't know that there was any particular legislation of emotions, but I think it was assumed that neither of them were to fall so in love with anyone else that it would come close to the bond between the spouses...but they did maintain ongoing friendships that occasionally involved sex, for many years, with particular people, and I'm sure they were very fond of them.
Swinging versus Polyamory.
It's been my thinking that swinging is mostly sex-based, and poly is more "loving relationship" based. However one defines that.
I had an aunt and uncle who were swingers for a LONG time. It's how the defined themselves, or identified...
Oddly though, I think in a way they fit poly more, perhaps. They had another couple that they were good friends with for decades, they'd go to "retreats" to have extramarital sex, and they'd "swap" with their friends. Outside of the adult environment of these little vacations, they were close friends. Only when they left real life and family behind did they explore the sex part of it. When they interacted outside of those trips, they were "just old friends" again.
I don't know that there was any particular legislation of emotions, but I think it was assumed that neither of them were to fall so in love with anyone else that it would come close to the bond between the spouses...but they did maintain ongoing friendships that occasionally involved sex, for many years, with particular people, and I'm sure they were very fond of them.