SWINGERS: WEIRD, WILD COUPLES WHO GO OUT TO HAVE SEX WITH STRANGERS

LONDON. — It’s Friday night and Olivia and Gage Masterson are at Purple Mamba nightclub in Nottingham.

But the couple aren’t there to dance the night away… they’ve got something far naughtier on their minds.

Olivia and Gage are swingers and are at the club to have sex with strangers.

Swinging, also known as partner swapping, is a sexual activity where partners in a committed relationship engage in sexual activities with other people.

All parties involved must give explicit and enthusiastic consent.

Open and honest communication between partners is crucial.

Many swingers engage with a community or attend events specifically for swinging.

Such activity can enhance intimacy and trust within the primary relationship.

It provides an opportunity to explore sexual fantasies and desires.

But it is not suitable for every relationship and requires a strong foundation of trust.

Jealousy and emotional challenges may arise and need to be managed.

Sometimes they go to clubs like Purple Mamba, sometimes they go to private houses.

Now and then they even travel abroad to swingers’ resorts in exotic places like Mexico and Jamaica.

But here’s the surprise. Rather than jeopardise their bond, Olivia, 33, says that swinging has made her marriage to Gage, 34, even stronger.

She even encourages couples whose passion has burnt out to give it a go.

“I would say to any couple whose sex life has dwindled or become predictable, to try it,” says Olivia.

“We’ve been together for 18 years, but after a night out swinging, we can’t wait to reconnect with each other. For us, it is the key to a happy marriage.”

Studies suggest that 33 per cent of men and 11 per cent of women are open to the idea of introducing a third person into their relationship, while more than a million Brits reportedly enjoy group sex on a regular basis.

But while some say swinging is simply a way of legitimising being unfaithful, Olivia insists it’s “normal and natural”.

Indeed, in their quest to spread the word, she and Gage have set up the SwingHub app, enabling swingers to connect and arrange hook ups. And since embracing partner-swapping, ‘swingfluencer’ Olivia now has 339k followers on TikTok, where her videos giving advice on the lifestyle have clocked up more than 3million views.

While Olivia still works part time as cabin crew with an airline, Gage is ex-Army and now dedicates all his time to SwingHub.

The couple – who live with their two sons, aged 15 and nine, in Lincoln— first met as teens on a night out and married in 2012, when Olivia was just 20.

Three years later, a conversation one night during “pillow talk” led them to discuss swinging.

After Olivia agreed to give it a go, the couple took the plunge and signed up to a swinging website.

“After a bit, the guys joined us. I had sex with the guy and Gage had sex with the woman. Later, back in the car, we were like, ‘Oh my God, that was amazing – why have we never done this ever before?’”

In fact, the couple were so turned on by their experience, their urges got the better of them before they even made it home.

Olivia says: “Round the corner from our house we had to pull up and reconnect in the car. We couldn’t wait.”

Afterwards, Olivia and Gage were eager to repeat the experience.

“We organised different types of meetings with different people,” she says.

“It’s a bit pick-and-mix. There could be two people, there could be 12. We played together and separately.”

The couple say it’s “an unwritten rule” that everyone uses protection and there are regular STI tests.

But it seems variety is the spice of life when it comes to swinging and they prefer new partners over those they’ve bedded before.

Olivia says: “We find it more thrilling to meet someone new – there’s all the nerves and excitement, whereas if you meet someone over and over, you know what you’re getting.”

‘Sex-positive environment’

According to Olivia, swinging has become more popular in recent years and there are now an estimated 150 swingers clubs across Britain.

“It is a growing lifestyle choice and you see more and more newbies coming in and experiencing it,” she says.

“We go to people’s houses, we meet in hotels, go to events and sex clubs.

You get all types, although a lot of people in the lifestyle have uniformed jobs — paramedics, doctors, nurses, firefighters, military.”

Some would balk at the prospect of their partner deriving pleasure from anyone outside their marriage, but Gage and Olivia claim they are unfazed.

“We aren’t worried that one of us might become emotionally involved with someone else,” Olivia says.

“We’re emotionally monogamous and we trust one another. For that reason, we wouldn’t consider a throuple, because that would involve emotions.”

Olivia and Gage set up SwingHub in September 2023, for swingers to arrange meets.

“We’ve got 61,000 members and there is a premium membership for £9.99 a month,” she says.

“All the revenue goes into growing the app. The ultimate goal is to let someone else take it further. We can only do so much.”

With Olivia and Gage openly declaring their love of swinging online, they recently told their eldest son what they do.

For most teens, discussing sex with parents is the stuff of nightmares, but Olivia claims he took it in his stride.

“We raise him in a sex-positive environment,” she says.

“When we told him, he said, ‘As long as you’re happy, that’s OK. I know you love each other.’”

Olivia has even shared details of her and Gage’s lifestyle with her family. —Sun Club