I used to swing with my ex wife since the year dot :shock:
and in those days the only way to get to meet someone was to pay a forwarding fee per letter of
the more letters yes letters you sent the cheaper it became :shock: :shock:
You would thumb through a contact mag select the pics you liked then wrote off ??? then waited and waited and waited :shock: :shock: :shock:
It makes our cyber space contact so quick what with e mail mobile phone etc etc and of course a gr8 site like swinging heaven :cheers:
the good old days NO WAY.....not when it comes to swinging .
steve x
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swinging since the year dot and how much it cost then ??
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Quote by travlinmanukok
lol:::: forgot to mention
In those days it used to be called Wife Swapping :wink:
and the car keys in the bowl for the females to pick out did exist :shock:
steve x ( showing my age now )ahhhhh but all that experience xxxxx
Spot on that man.
:thumbup: Ladies wore a blindfold (table napkin) and picked the keys out of the bowl.
No tagged pics to look at them days :wink:
Warming the Bed
I started that way but it was usually a select few who stayed on after our frequent bottle parties.
Don't mention Party4 and Party7 beer cans.
Don't mention Party4 and Party7 beer cans.
When MrM started swinging with his ex he did it through Loot,which was at the time, a free ads paper in London, the back pages were full of those days you sent a letter with polaroids to a PO box number and waited for a responce, he only got 3 replys in as many months....lol
The internet makes it so much easier.....
The internet makes it so much easier.....
Quote by mrmnmrsgI had completely forgot about polaroids :shock:
When MrM started swinging with his ex he did it through Loot,which was at the time, a free ads paper in London, the back pages were full of those days you sent a letter with polaroids to a PO box number and waited for a responce, he only got 3 replys in as many months....lol
The internet makes it so much easier.....
Yes that was the only instant camera you could buy you took the pic then stuck in between 2 metal plates then put it under your arm to speed the developing process up :shock:
How things have changed today with swinging
steve x
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Quote by mrmnmrsg
When MrM started swinging with his ex he did it through Loot,which was at the time, a free ads paper in London, the back pages were full of those days you sent a letter with polaroids to a PO box number and waited for a responce, he only got 3 replys in as many months....lol
The internet makes it so much easier.....
I remember the ad section in Loot too when I lived in London, though by the time I used it there was a voicemail system, so I would phone a number, key in a personal code, and listen to the replies to my "single male seeking couples" ad. Then meets were arranged by phone - usually no chance to exchange photos beforehand, which in a way made it more exciting and mysterious - I had some great times.
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Quote by MikeNorth
When MrM started swinging with his ex he did it through Loot,which was at the time, a free ads paper in London, the back pages were full of those days you sent a letter with polaroids to a PO box number and waited for a responce, he only got 3 replys in as many months....lol
The internet makes it so much easier.....
I remember the ad section in Loot too when I lived in London, though by the time I used it there was a voicemail system, so I would phone a number, key in a personal code, and listen to the replies to my "single male seeking couples" ad. Then meets were arranged by phone - usually no chance to exchange photos beforehand, which in a way made it more exciting and mysterious - I had some great times.
yep... and the msn/ personals and chatrooms. 
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MSN chatrooms is as far back as I can remember.
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MSN chatrooms is as far back as I can remember.
I remember them too. I felt rather lost when they shut them down.
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Quote by MikeNorth
MSN chatrooms is as far back as I can remember.
I remember them too. I felt rather lost when they shut them down.
So did I, then someone sent me a link to the SH chatroom
I agree with Mike North, there is something deliciously nerve-wracking about meeting through Loot when you only have a vague notion of the person's/persons' appearance. Also there is the thrill of listening to the intonation of a person's recorded voice, and making inferences about them from what they say and how they say it. Don't misunderstand me, the internet is fine and all that, but there's almost too much visual information available now prior to meeting up, and perhaps we've lost a lot of that intoxicating air of mystery and suspense that we used to have when meeting a stranger through a voicemail greeting. The voice is such a powerful sexual tool. It all seems much more formulaic now 
I remember contact mags, first got my hands on one when I was 17. I mainly looked for older single ladies with not much success the waiting was a real pain in the arse. The excitement as the postie delivered the mail and the dissapointment when there was no reply. When a reply did arrive the responses would more than likely be a no thanks, occasionaly it would be a "you can meet me it will be £££" and very rarlely a postive result.
It could get expensive with buying the mag, forwarding fees and stamps both for the letters to be forwarded and the replies in the stamped addressed envelope you often had to put in with your letter to the advertiser.
How things have changed, used to take weeks to be ignored, now it takes no time at all
It could get expensive with buying the mag, forwarding fees and stamps both for the letters to be forwarded and the replies in the stamped addressed envelope you often had to put in with your letter to the advertiser.
How things have changed, used to take weeks to be ignored, now it takes no time at all
Quote by tricky-dickyyour reply tricky brought back loads of memories of those " contact mags" impolite to mention them by name on here :shock:
I remember contact mags, first got my hands on one when I was 17. I mainly looked for older single ladies with not much success the waiting was a real pain in the arse. The excitement as the postie delivered the mail and the dissapointment when there was no reply. When a reply did arrive the responses would more than likely be a no thanks, occasionaly it would be a "you can meet me it will be £££" and very rarlely a postive result.
It could get expensive with buying the mag, forwarding fees and stamps both for the letters to be forwarded and the replies in the stamped addressed envelope you often had to put in with your letter to the advertiser.
How things have changed, used to take weeks to be ignored, now it takes no time at all
but a few are still going today , but why would you want to buy them when you can get instant contact on here ??
:wink:the anticipation of the postie arriving yes I remember that :wink: :wink:
and quite a few used box no's as they didnt want addresses given out ......
steve
Quote by tricky-dicky
It could get expensive with buying the mag, forwarding fees and stamps both for the letters to be forwarded and the replies in the stamped addressed envelope you often had to put in with your letter to the advertiser.
It's a bugger having to buy stamps now that swingers don't send us stamps and envelopes for free. :lol2:
Quote by tricky-dicky
I remember contact mags, first got my hands on one when I was 17. I mainly looked for older single ladies with not much success the waiting was a real pain in the arse. The excitement as the postie delivered the mail and the dissapointment when there was no reply. When a reply did arrive the responses would more than likely be a no thanks, occasionaly it would be a "you can meet me it will be £££" and very rarlely a postive result.
It could get expensive with buying the mag, forwarding fees and stamps both for the letters to be forwarded and the replies in the stamped addressed envelope you often had to put in with your letter to the advertiser.
How things have changed, used to take weeks to be ignored, now it takes no time at all
computers were quite young then so you had to write to each advertiser :shock: :shock:
Put them all in a large plain large envelope with a stamped addressed envelope in side ( to get your polaroids back if you were lucky ) :shock: :shock:
and most of the contacts pics were black and white , it took around 2 weeks from writing to await a reply and has been said you then got a polite no thank you :shock: :shock:
how we take a site like this for granted ......
steve
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Quote by travlinmanukok
does anyone remember spin the bottle :shock:
spin a wine bottle then who ever the neck points to removes a piece of clothing :shock:
It allways ended up with the fems naked and the guys still dressed I wonder why ? :shock:
steve
You definitely went to very different teenage parties than me then... if there was a stripping game going on then it was equal opps stripping - everyone got naked!
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It could get expensive with buying the mag, forwarding fees and stamps both for the letters to be forwarded and the replies in the stamped addressed envelope you often had to put in with your letter to the advertiser.
It's a bugger having to buy stamps now that swingers don't send us stamps and envelopes for free. :lol2:
Even if you found a few of those old stamps, 'fraid the penny black is not valid anymore!
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omg forgot about the ole contact mag days seems a lifetime ago now
sadly we never recieved one that appealed so never actually managed to start swinging till we got hooked up with the internet but ya right it was good getting the letters through
sadly we never recieved one that appealed so never actually managed to start swinging till we got hooked up with the internet but ya right it was good getting the letters through
there was in those days a lot of 0898 tell no's around on certain contact mag sites 
these ranged from per min up to per min and coupled with massive drawn out conversations and music made a call on average around :shock:
It was only right at the end of " the intro" did you get to hear so called voices ??????? :shock: :shock:
These could have been anyone in the office of the " contact mag" recording an add and i am convinced they did as what have they got to lose .....nothing ?
But a lot of £££££££££ to gain but quite a few " swappers " in those days got wised up and just stuck with the people you have met or reccomended.........
Todays swinger is a bit more savvy and wouldnt fall for the tell call con ? :shock: :shock:
But ???? watch out for the txt ads that are around today these can range from upward per txt
I will stick with good old swinging heaven methinks :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink:
steve
these ranged from per min up to per min and coupled with massive drawn out conversations and music made a call on average around :shock:
It was only right at the end of " the intro" did you get to hear so called voices ??????? :shock: :shock:
These could have been anyone in the office of the " contact mag" recording an add and i am convinced they did as what have they got to lose .....nothing ?
But a lot of £££££££££ to gain but quite a few " swappers " in those days got wised up and just stuck with the people you have met or reccomended.........
Todays swinger is a bit more savvy and wouldnt fall for the tell call con ? :shock: :shock:
But ???? watch out for the txt ads that are around today these can range from upward per txt
I will stick with good old swinging heaven methinks
:wink: :wink: :wink: :wink: steve
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got caught out on the phone line swinging till we got huge bill and that soon nipped that one in the budvery gratefull for sites like this one has made life a hell of a lot easier and cheaper
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very gratefull for sites like this one has made life a hell of a lot easier and cheaper
Yes i must admit hand on heart , my ex and I " got caught " :shock: :shock:
With a bill that was higher then the national debt of some small countrys
ops: :oops: :oops: didnt happen a second time round once bitten and all that ?
:D :D There are still some contact mags on the top shelf still for sale and it allways makes me smile when I see them :D :D , but with the nett being so good cant for the life of me why anyone would want to buy one ?
steve
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Quote by travlinmanukok
very gratefull for sites like this one has made life a hell of a lot easier and cheaper
Yes i must admit hand on heart , my ex and I " got caught " :shock: :shock:
With a bill that was higher then the national debt of some small countrys
ops: :oops: :oops: didnt happen a second time round once bitten and all that ?
:D :D There are still some contact mags on the top shelf still for sale and it allways makes me smile when I see them :D :D , but with the nett being so good cant for the life of me why anyone would want to buy one ?
steve
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