Author: Cooper S. Beckett

About Cooper Cooper S. Beckett is the co-founder and host of Life on the Swingset: The Podcast since 2010, author of swinging & polyamory novels A Life Less Monogamous and Approaching The Swingularity, and memoir My Life on the Swingset: Adventures in Swinging & Polyamory. He teaches and speaks on swinging, polyamory, pegging, play parties, and coloring outside the boundaries of your sexuality. He is a graphic & web designer, photographer, and voice over artist, has been a guest expert on Dan Savage’s Savage Lovecast, & is the announcer of Tristan Taormino’s radio show Sex Out Loud. He is currently working on two instructional non-fiction books, one about beginning non-monogamy, and another about pegging.

Off the bat the Natural Contours Petite Pink Ribbon Personal Massager was a hit with me as part of the proceeds go to breast cancer awareness. Anything that supports this cause is a winner and my book. The Petite Pink Ribbon is a vibrator that I like to use for a gentle orgasam for when I want to take my time. Maybe light some candles, pop in a DVD and get comfy in bed. All of which are always pleasant to the overall experience. The shape of the Petite Pink Ribbon it well designed, ergonomic really. It was easy to use…

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There’s a strange urban legend that seems to have popped up as of late, that white rocks in a house’s front yard means the inhabitants of that house are swingers. The swinging community at large isn’t sure where this rumor came from, but many say they’ve heard this themselves, and some have placed white rocks in their front yards to reaffirm their “secret code swinger status.”

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I had a nightmare scare recently. I’d been shaving my pubic region regularly for a while, and always got some ingrown hairs and bumps, but these weren’t going away. So I called my friend in Michigan who’s a doctor. “Were you watching House again?”

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I’ve received a few emails now since starting my Fleshlight experiment about how to clean up after a session with the Fleshlight and it’s really a lot easier than one might think. Simply remove the Fleshlight from its container, spread it open and run hot water directly through it for a while. Once done running down, flip it over and run water through the other way. Then let it dry completely. (Overnight has tended to do just fine) Soap and alcohol (while advised for use on other toys) can break down the skin of the Fleshlight and will ultimately ruin…

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When Marilyn and I were discussing joining the lifestyle, this video made quite an impression httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmQRnfHEm-0

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I’m not gonna lie. There was a time, not too terribly long ago, where Marilyn and my sex life was sort of stale. We had sex because we didn’t want to be one of those couples that didn’t have sex weekly.  It was usually quick, uninspired…sorta dull. This was before we learned about this super awesome thing you can do called SWINGING! Yes, swinging, enhancing sex lives since the fifties. (Actual decade may vary.) So why am I telling you this? Well, ‘cuz we bought lots of books. From The Guide To Getting it On (Which is a wonderful and…

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All lubes are not created equal. I worry that I’m going to start running out of ways to begin my lube reviews.  I mean, without talking about how many lubes I try, how good and bad some of them are, how I’m partial to certain ones, how I can’t figure out why they can’t get the formula right on others, about how much lube we swingers go through on a regular basis….Well, I guess I just went meta. Which brings me to a disappointment.  The Intimate Organics lotions and oils product line is so SPECTACULAR, that when I pulled the…

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So, there was a lot of clamoring via Facebook and Twitter when Ginger and the Professor decided to come and visit Marilyn and I, for a tell all expose of our debauchery. Many wanted a podcast recording of it. (But that would’ve been 5 hours long, BOOM!) Or at least for Ginger and I to deconstruct the proceedings in some way. What I will tell you is that Ginger and Prof are two AMAZING people, and we consider ourselves very lucky to know them, and to have gotten to see them in person. And we’re enlisting Kidder Kaper’s game Unpredictable…

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House recently featured a patient with an open marriage.  As they’ve done before with the porn star couple, the team quickly divided into for and against.  But before this, as the opening titles ran, with the amazing Teardrop by Massive Attack, Marilyn and I discussed who we thought would be for and against this relationship.   Of course bisexual and kinky 13/Remy would be for it, Chase would probably have issue because of his failed marriage, Foreman would just be against it because he seems to be a fairly traditional fellow, and House?  Well, House probably wouldn’t come down on…

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For the longest time for us, lube was just whatever we’d pickup at the store.  Or when we were feeling adventurous, maybe we’d try that new lube we saw in the commercial, the warming one or whatever.  That was a lifetime (and lifestyle) ago and now lube is definitely on my mind far more.   We never really had much use for it, to be sure…Marilyn is exceedingly wet, therefore making it fairly unnecessary during penetration, and well, when I take matters in hand, 9 times out of 10 I reach for the Jergens.  (I’m sure they love that little…

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