Despite the fact that swinging has been growing popular the past couple of years, not all swinging couples feel comfortable coming out to the open. Being open about swinging do have consequences, especially with cons still affecting the general populations, but it is not without benefits.

The first question you need to ask yourself is whether your family needs to know. I’m sure that families can, and will, accept you for who you are and being able to talk openly about swinging to your family may be a relief indeed, but you need to also consider side effects that comes with being open about your involvements in swinging or sharing your experiences. Make sure they can really accept the idea of swinging even when they don’t actually get involved in it. The same approach can also be used when you plan on telling your friends; you wouldn’t want to ruin your friendship just because they think you are considering them to be potential swinging partners, right?

One of the oldest tricks in the book when it comes to assessing people’s thoughts about swinging is to leave materials related to swinging — journals, magazines with swinging articles in it, etc. — around and see how they react to it. If they are aggressively against the concept, it would be best to avoid telling them just yet. If they seem OK with the idea and can accept it as another existing lifestyle in the community, then you may carefully move forward and start being open about swinging.