At the club here in Vegas that we host at each week we have noticed in the last three years that there is more and more of the "social' crowd coming. They dance, hang out, make friends but they don't tend to play. Some of the ladies will dance nasty, maybe take the tops off or play with the other ladies on the dance floor but then it stops there.
Some of us that been around a long time compare notes from clubs around the country and make a joke that the swing clubs are turning into dirty dance clubs these days.
When we host special parties at the clubs, or convention or anywhere else we always theme our parties to get people out of the "norm". We found that is condutive to getting some great old time orgies and playing going one.
We host what we call a "naked and Naughty" party. All women have to be in lingerie or less, men must be NAKED! Turns the tables real fast doing this but makes for a great party. We just had one two weeks ago and all of them we avg. 250 people showing up to them. Many of those people are regulars at the club but like it that the crowd is much different when you apply a dress code like that. It bring us all back to what the club used to be years ago, a real swing (sex) party. At convention we have 7 parties in 4 days. Three in the afternoon and they are all "naked only" dress code. Each night the dress code theme is different but they all lead to everyone being naked pretty fast. When you require that people get out of the street clothes things tend to heat up pretty fast and get going.
I do not think that the clubs will change back to the way they used to be. We do see nights as you mentioned that the crowd seems to be a bit younger but they don't tend to become regulars. The young crowd has not really grasped their sexually and emotions to fit in well in the long term. There is exceptions to that but most of them come and go pretty fast.
We have also noticed that over the years our "core" group changes. There is a few of us that have been hanging out for years together but we lose some, get some new ones and it keeps going that way. New ones come and go, some long term and some short but it works for us. What used to be a core group of about 30 of us there is only about 8 to 10 of us left. Some of the new ones have been around for about a year now though.
We have found things happen. People move away, drop out of the lifestyle or just go else where. Some couples split up also so we end up losing one or both of them when that happens. We do have a few singles that been hanging with the group though for a few years now. Both male and female.
As they say, the only thing that stays the same is the fact that it all changes.
