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Oh my, a social scientist wanting to bring legitimate study and research into the lifestyle...BE STILL MY RACING HEART!!!!!! My personal thoughts on this are multi-fold. For starters threads like this and research like this are often based on an assumption that swingers are somehow, "different" than other people in society. When people try to find that 'difference' it often comes up short because when you peel down through all the layers swingers are just people and people are often swingers to one degree or another. I'm not sure any of us are carrying a specific 'swinger trait' or swinger gene. Your thoughts on attempting to correlate thrill seeking behaviour to swinging is with merit and would definately be an interesting study and I would sure be interested in seeing the results but again I don't know if there will be an actual relationship between the two. If there is a related trait that may be a bit more pronounced in swinging community as opposed to the vanilla community I suspect it may not so much be about thrill seeking but rather how they view the concepts of risk interrelated with social conformity. In otherwords, swingers are not necessarily seeking a thrill through swinging per se but rather they have a higher tolerance for taking a social risk. For example if a vanilla is told to not indulge in any kind of sexual experience outside of monogamous marriage because it is not proper and approved of by that community, they will conform to that instruction so as not violate any social norms or customs. Whereas the swinger is willing to take and manage a certain level of risk of social disapproval.