Meeting people from the Board

[TricianMike 772]

We were wondering if any posters on here have met others in person for social or swinging. What are the criteria you use to give out personal information and ultimately meeting? Most of us on here don’t upload pictures to the gallery and can only make a first impression by posts. 

[PeterJ 948]

I’ve had social meet-ups with a couple of other members of the board. In each case it was someone I had interacted with substantively in posts or via the site’s PM function. It was lovely to get to know them a bit better in the way that’s only really possible with a face-to-face interaction.
 

Like most of the regular people who post here, I don’t look at the Swingersboard as a dating site, but rather as a place to share experiences and address issues that one faces in the lifestyle. There are a lot of sincere and thoughtful contributors on the site and there are several I’d enjoy having a chat with over lunch or a coffee.

[njbm 2,870]

We met a couple on this board at a nudist resort/ swingers friendly place. We had a very nice encounter. A potential problem arose thereafter. Let’s just say we tested negative. 
 

The couple later divorced and I no longer see them post here. Of course, they will remain anonymous. 

Edited August 15, 2021 by njbm

[ROCKlandCpl 451]

[GoldCoCouple 4,065]

We've never run across anyone here that was close enough by to meet IRL. From seeing some of the people who have visited our SLS profile, I can only guess that it is people from here wanting to see what we looked like (I can't believe that SLS is matching us with people 2000 miles away).

[cplnluv1 872]

We have. We have met for both social and more. We have also introduced people we met to explore this site. 

[cplnuswing 4,713]

We have. 

 

What sadly seems like eons ago now, we had some super fun times just hanging out with folks from this site when Julie used to organize Swingers Board meet-ups a few times a year.  Sometimes they would be held where there was a swingers club to attend one night, other times she just picked a destination that seemed like a good one for a weekend getaway and we met up for dinner and pub crawling or whatever sounded fun.  Anyone member could organize one, so there were some scattered far and wide, but she did the majority of them, and since we lived in the same general region of the country as her, we were fortunate in that most of them were in a day's drive for us.

 

We really really enjoyed those. It's something we've talked about trying to rekindle eventually.  That was a long long time ago in internet years, so I don't know if the online forum meeting up in real life is still a thing people would be interested in nowadays, but back then, many forums did it.

 

We've also gotten together with people we know from here in sort of unofficial mini-meet-ups.  Just like any other group of friends getting together - "Hey, are y'all busy weekend after next?  Want to get together on Saturday night in Wherever for dinner and drinks?"

 

So to answer your question about pics, etc.  For the official meet-ups, for those who had expressed interest there would usually be a PM chain or private forum or some way to set up the logistics and communicate with each other without the whole world seeing it.  People would often share their SLS names there if they didn't already have it as part of their profile.  Back then, if you wanted it to, your SLS name could appear below your avatar on all your posts.