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A swing club as a research lab (Canada)

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two4youinswva    3,068

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Swingers’ club ideal science lab: researcher | Posted | National Post

 

Over two nights, the University of Ottawa nursing professor observed mostly affluent, 40-something couples mingle in the lounge area of a local swingers’ club, then migrate to upstairs rooms.

 

Dispassionately recording “field notes” on the action, Prof. O’Byrne espied swingers who practised vaginal, anal and oral sex, and tried to gauge how often his research subjects used a condom.

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It's interesting that the article doesn't get into the details of what the study actually found. No discussion on the vast difference in the number of people doing unprotected oral sex vs. those doing unprotected vaginal sex. They just let the statement "unprotected sex" stand, which leaves an impression of most having unprotected vaginal sex. Shitty reporting, not because they got things wrong, but they didn't even try to give any real information.

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I also didn't see anything that compared STD rates (or even suggested that said swingers had a higher std rate).

 

I did however, like this part of the second story (the author's response to how some swingers have a hard time discussing their lifestyle with their drs.

 

"What is the role of the health professional? Is it to deal with health issues, such as disease transmission and prevention, or is it to lecture somebody on how they should be behaving?" asked O'Byrne. "Risk in and of itself is exciting for some people. If you say, 'You should stay away because it's risky,' well, that's one of the reasons people do it," he said.

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two4youinswva    3,068

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Best excuse ever for being a towel shark.

Heh. Didn't think of that.

I did however, like this part of the second story (the author's response to how some swingers have a hard time discussing their lifestyle with their drs.

 

That was a big takeaway for me as well.

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