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How did swingers meet when there was no internet
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By *an1978Woman 8 weeks ago
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The PO Box letters must have been fun, waiting for the Polaroid or maybe even not knowing til you meet.
Many others met down the pub, on the golf course, in the office...
I turned 16 in the 90s so early Internet newsgroups were already available so guess my generation always had it easy.  |
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I used contact magazines, one called Experience and I can't remember the other titles.
Odd but true: Channel 4 teletext had dating pages in the 90s and I had a good meet off there. Claire in Shrewsbury, if you're reading this get in touch! |
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I remember a contact magazine called Rendezvous back in the day.You replied to an advert enclosed your letter along with a photo and sae.A small forwarding fee then you waited a few weeks to hopefully get a reply. It was slow but I had some good meets |
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As already mentioned by someone else, contact magazines were the way to go. I used to buy rendezvous and play the waiting game hopeful
Of a reply. The Polaroid camera was your friend and if I’m honest the reply ratio was definitely a lot higher than fab is now. Has a few really great connections back in the day. |
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Replying to ads in magazines and then (more successfully actually) the FreeAds paper.
Writing to someone including a photo and a stamped addressed envelope, so these total strangers knew immediately where you actually lived.
If you were lucky you’d get a reply, and as often as not it would include a phone number (landline) for you to reach out and call them, often following set instructions (after 10pm/weekends only/don’t call on a Sunday) etc.
All in all, could be 4/6 weeks from replying to getting a reply (if at all), and hopefully you could then get together with a likeminded person/couple.
What I found then was if you were fortunate enough to make a positive connection, it sometimes led to an introduction to a wider informal network, with the benefits that brought. |
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"Contact magazines. You could put an advert and wait a few weeks for some letters with photo's to arrive in the post."
"Rendezvous" Magazine was my publication of choice. You'd post your (hand written) letter / pics to the magazine - along with a self adressed, stamped envelope, and wait in anticipation.
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"As already mentioned by someone else, contact magazines were the way to go. I used to buy rendezvous and play the waiting game hopeful
Of a reply. The Polaroid camera was your friend and if I’m honest the reply ratio was definitely a lot higher than fab is now. Has a few really great connections back in the day. "
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I would take a guess
Going back to victorian times through to edwardian and 20s & 30s.
Swinging would have been rife amongst the aristocracy with their weekend gatherings at their country retreats when folk would come down from London on an invited guest list..things eould have gone on..depending upon what set you belonged to..
Following the war..people may have had a more carefree attitude having sampled so many deaths in the war..
50s would have seen first breaks in society and its conventions with the beat generation...that would lead to the swinging 60s and hippys.
Don't forget 50s and 60s would have seen great rebuilds and expansion of suburbia..and the car keys in the fish bowl party set.
60s also gave rise to the sex industry and tolerance to the the topshelf porn mags of the day that would lead to contact mags..
For many of a certain generation still on here from the 50s the increase in car use would have seen the increase in car sales..and for many a courting couple in 60s 70s even 80s a car meant some private time at a quite spot..on occasion there might have been another or other cars parked up..I'll admit to my own naivety in that I realised they were parked for same reason as I..but the thought they may want to watch or be watched by others never entered my head.. |
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My wife and I started swinging (and still are) 26 / 27 years ago.
We where quite young (early 20s) Our very very first swinging encounter was basically my wife's freind. She was game and we did it just by asking lol. No Internet used.
After that i did infact jump on the internet to search and found it was a toss up between magazines or throwing caution to the wind on a swingers forum I found. Tried the forum and basically it was emails and posted Polaroids.....
Had a few more meets, a few chance encounters with game people in the real world then took a few years long break. Came back about 14 years ago due to another chance encounter and never looked back.
Don't really use fab for meets anymore though. Too much hassle now for numerous reasons. Easier to go to clubs or social events and meet people for real.
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