[IvoryTowers]

Mr. Ivory here. (Sigh). Another sex-negative post by another troll. The implicit assumption in the OP's dire warning is that swinging is more dangerous than "vanilla" dating & mating. We all know that's simply not true. But it's easy to malign or dismiss swingers by assuming that 1) we're really promiscuous and 2) we don't use any safer sex measures. In our experience neither of these two things is true.

STIs are a risk of sexual activity in the modern world, period. Many people don't know, for example, that several STIs (HPV is one of them) can lay dormant for years before producing visible symptoms. So one's long-term, monogamous partner could have contracted HPV back in his "carefree" single days and transmit it to the new partner years later.

The point is that if you're an adult and want to have sex, you have to accept that there's no such thing as completely safe sex; that you can minimize your risk in myriad ways; and that waking up and leaving your house is an also activity that involves risk of injury or death, but most of us choose to live life rather than try to insulate ourselves from it.