The greater part of swinger couples have usually been together for a quite a while and for the most part understand each others needs, desires, and history. HIV is one the worst sexual transmitted diseased known to man. Fortunately it has not attacked the swinger’s culture as much as it has others.    

Obviously there are play couples who are not careful about safer sex or building relationships prior to sex. It is very easy for them to go to a swinger’s party and have so much fun that they end up swapping partners without putting a lot of thought into who they will be having sex with. You will also hear of small orgies, where safe sex is not their first priority, and protected oral sex can be non-existent. But since 1986 there has been only one reported case of HIV infection in the swinger community.
What has kept HIV from attacking the swinger community?

There are quite a few reasons that HIV does not lurk and kill in the swinger’s world. One of the main reasons is the fact that there is not a lot of drug use amongst swingers.  These drugs are notorious for spreading HIV. The swinger’s community, for the most part, looks down upon drug use. This most likely comes from the community standing of the people who are in the lifestyle. More than likely they are married, have a professional job, and may even have children. They are very normal. What they do behind closed doors does not end up in drug use.          

One thing to be concerned about is that not every partner in this way of life will have non discretional activates; the greater part of couples have a partiality in social and sexual relationships with other couples, they see swinging as a social behavior, sex is the least of it.

Truthful sexual history is very important. It is only natural for people to fear the HIV and AIDS situation so they have been known to downplay there sexual rushed and risk groups. No matter what the case may be there is no need to be dishonest about your sexual history and experiences. You will be protecting yourself and someone else from an increased possibility of contracted a disease. 

Couples may be adamant about getting to know people before actually going through with sexual activity, have consistent couples they entertain, or maintain the lifestyle with people who’s STD status and is common knowledge. Not every couple will have unprotected sex, according to a recent study, 62% of swingers immediately started to practice safer sex after they discovered that HIV was spreading through un-protected swingers.

Ten percent of the swinging population goes to occasions just to socialize, other may prefer to “soft swap”, this is changing partners for heavy petting, they return to the partners for actual intercourse. A lot of the encounters in this community stay away from swapping fluids as an extra precautionary. It may be safe to say that the heterosexual community is more risky than swingers.