Random question of the times...

[udsarge 119]

Just out of curiosity..has anyone's swinging habits/behaviors been modified by the current scare going on all over the country with Covid-19?

[NC_Seniors 518]

YES!  We just cancelled out of a LifeStyle club visit -- including our hotel room -- for this coming weekend and we changed from next month's Bliss Cruise to the one in April of '21.  We accepted a $500 re-booking penalty to move the cruise, so you know we're taking this *really* seriously.   ?

[njbm 2,871]

We cancelled a lifestyle cruise to Australia and New Zealand recently.  The entire cruise was later cancelled. We also switched from April Bliss 2020 to 2021. 
 

Since we are holed up in our bunker and not shaking hands, swinging is out of the question for us. We are over 60 and in a high risk category. 

[Guest]

We had 3 weeks booked in S. Florida, usually involves a lot of swinging activity.  We cancelled it and the flights.

[Guest]

Reducing the hours on my business as a result / cancelling 3 or 4 major events.

 

Swing wise yes, couple wants to meet for a social but in a few weeks when we figure out what is happening.

 

Others however seem to be playing happily enough.

[bbarnsworth 2,637]

I would imagine a lot of people are cancelling out for now. Nobody _needs_ to swing, so why increase chances? I suppose to the same could be said for STDs though.

 

[njbm 2,871]

I do not think that swinging is a good idea for the foreseeable future. Our friends seem to agree. If you are not supposed to shake hands or get within six feet of someone swinging seems difficult. 
 

We had friends offer to have cam sex and watch each other. We’ve never done it before, but it may be the wave of the future. Along with robotic partners. 

[cplnuswing 4,713]

We didn't have anything swinging planned so no big changes to our life in that regard.  Just from being webmaster here, I'm on mailing lists for various different clubs and events.  By no means an exhaustive list, but for every single one I'm on, been getting emails they are shut down for the foreseeable future.

[couplers 4,642]

The biggest changes for us (our poly family - two men, three women, kids) are working from home.  We are driving one another a little crazy, but having Clair as our stay-at-home mom and putting her in charge helps.  Going outdoors to run and cycle helps us all a lot since the gyms and pools are closed.

 

From the sex standpoint, we are having a lot of daytime/mid-day sex.  Turns out the guys can't get through the day without a quickie or two since Clair, Lora and I are right at hand.  They say that they can concentrate better afterwards.  I even did a quickie doggy leaning on my desk as a conference call was going on.  (The video was slides/shared screen, but still, I had tape over my camera. (But the audio wasn't muted. ))

[TricianMike 772]

Being home and not even able to shop has been very difficult. It has given us plenty of alone time that at first was just great. It’s not often we can take an afternoon jump in the bed and now we don’t even need to get out of bed at all. I am talking on the phone more and we have had Zoom parties with our vanilla friends. 

I have one woman who we met several years ago with her husband that I still keep in touch with. They live about an hour from us and over the years we have played a few times, the last time was last spring.  We are more phone a friends, not big swing friends. We do talk about experiences and every day things too. It sounds that we both are going crazy staying home just like everyone else is. 

Discussed maybe meeting at their house for drinks knowing we shouldn’t. All four of us have been home working and have had very little contact with any others. 

We decided to drive to them yesterday with a few bottles of wine. At first we kept our distance and talked about whether we should go further. Silly as it sounds we said no kissing and agreed to shower with antibacterial soap. 

I think we all needed a break and it was a perfect day. On the way home Mike asked why we don’t see them more often. 

Now it’s back to Netflix and Prime and Michael. 

[Numex 2,416]

8 hours ago, TricianMike said:

... Silly as it sounds we said no kissing ... 

 By consensus, no oral either; we only do doggy within our group now.

[njbm 2,871]

Just a head’s up. A few years ago we played with a couple on a cruise. We knew them, we’re still friends, we like them very much. I had an intense and intimate session with the wife as my wife played with the husband. 
 

A couple of days later, I had the chills and a fever. At home, I developed an upper respiratory infection that my GP could not cure. An ENT put me on an allergy medication and that finally helped but about two months later. 
 

It was memorably long and distressing. Be careful out there!

[EastInWest 1,524]

Travel to visit with the couples we play with is obviously off for the foreseeable future. Our single female locally is a healthcare provider and after we got back, we mutually agreed we need to take a break. She and Mrs. E can't go to the gym together anymore, obviously, and her regular boyfriend is also a healthcare provider and they won't meet with each other, either.

 

In general, I don't consider one-on-one or two-on-two encounters "high-risk", but obviously, it's contextual to your own risks and the situation of the person you're meeting, including their occupation. Epidemiology is actually a lot like blackjack and the goal is for everybody to play basic strategy with the best odds they can get, but in reality, everybody compromises a little bit to their own limitations and just tries not to do anything really dumb because they're feeling "lucky".

 

Highly relevant:

 

[JessicaJamison 861]

On 3/17/2020 at 9:15 PM, udsarge said:

Just out of curiosity..has anyone's swinging habits/behaviors been modified by the current scare going on all over the country with Covid-19?

Yes we have reduced our play to one couple.