Feel free to start shit with me.
The lifestyle isn't about swapping?
Ummm no, it is. Swinging isn't every fetish out there rolled into one. Swinging is swapping partners, I'll even say 3somes count in there too (and thats a subject for debate), but thats about it.
I don't care how many times you watch someone have sex, if you don't exchange partners at some point, you are not a swinger.
To use a more clear analogy, lets take football. I don't care how many games you watch, how well you know the stats, how much you enjoy talking football with the players, until you played your first NFL game, you would be a rookie.
I sometimes feel like being a 'swinger' is somehow a cool club everyone wants to say they are in. I have no idea why this is, but thats the impression I get. Saying a non-swapper isn't a swinger, isn't a negative judgment, they can do whatever their kink is and enjoy it, but they just aren't swingers, any more than I am a BSDMer, or HotWifer, or cuckhold.