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.

Image courtesy of A Couple of Wankers* Welcome to Pleasurists, a round-up of the adult product contests, giveways, and sex toy reviews that came out approximately between April 23rd and May 13th. If you like what you see consider following the RSS Feed and Twitter for updates on further editions. Did you miss edition 175? Read it all here. Do you have a review for edition 177? Be sure to read the submission guidelines and then use the submission form to submit before Sunday May 20th @ 11:59pm Pacific Time. Edition 177 will be out Tuesday May 22nd. *Pleasurists also…

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Image courtesy of Blacksilk*Welcome to Pleasurists, a round-up of the adult product and sex toy reviews that came out in the last seven days. If you like what you see and want more of it be sure to follow the RSS Feed and Twitter for updates. Did you miss Pleasurists 174? Read it all here. Do you have a review for Pleasurists 177? Be sure to read the submission guidelines and then use the submission form to submit before Sunday May 20th @ 11:59pm Pacific Time. *Pleasurists now accepts photo submissions for the art at the top of editions! For…

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I put forth a challenge to our listeners, to find me a high quality silicone dildo that could ejaculate. My specifications were a bit stringent perhaps, but I only asked for what I imagined the target market would want. I wanted it to be made of quality non toxic and easily sterilizable silicone, I wanted it to be realistic (and human), I wanted it to be able to be used with a harness, and to be easily refillable with the lube of our choice. These things were important for me for many reasons. Ginger summed up the non-toxic issue very…

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“We should see if there’s a good sex toy store in Milwaukee,” Marilyn suggested, whipping out her phone as we drove to Wisconsin for the afternoon. I told her that sounded good to me, and within minutes she’d discovered The Tool Shed. Reading the small description, female run, seminars, body conscious, quality selection, this sounded right up our alley. We threw the address in the GPS and before long we found ourselves in a college town feeling neighborhood, parked in front of The Tool Shed. Stepping into this place, I was greeted with the same kind of atmosphere I’ve really…

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NRE (New Relationship Energy) is different in what would be considered polyamorous relationships as it is in swinging relationships. So different in fact that I think it’s apropos that way back we coined the acronym NSE for New Swinger Energy. In my experience, and from what I’ve been told by many readers and friends, when in a swinging relationship, a couple meets another couple, the NSE hits them with a tremendous amount of enthusiasm for their own relationship. The very act of finding a couple you’re compatible sexually with can often trigger a sexual renaissance as it were. In polyamory,…

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We here at The Swingset are always happy to help with any questions or concerns you have, please don’t hesitate to ask! Q. In the beginning of October my wife was let go from her job. We had been kidding around with the idea of her doing webcam shows like some of the models contracted with my company. My wife is pretty shy, we met in high school. We have been together for almost 14 years. I was her first, so her sexual experience was limited to what we had done. We have had a great sex life and tried…

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Cooper here! We get a lot of awesome responses to our show and website, and many of them can be found on our Kudos page, but every once in a while, a response comes along that is so detailed and thought out it deserves its own post. The amazing response below came from friend to the site: Poly Man Whore – and I’ll just let him take it away! Hi, Swingsetters! I loved ep. 68. It is nice to hear about everything that’s going on in your worlds. I did have some thoughts, though, that I wanted to share. Some of…

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Photo Courtesy of JM from There is No Spoon! Welcome to e[lust] – Your source for sexual intelligence and inspirations of lust from the smartest & sexiest bloggers! Whether you’re looking for hot steamy smut, thought-provoking opinions or expert information, you’re going to find it here. Want to be included in e[lust] #35 ? Start with the rules, check out the schedule and subscribe to the RSS feed for updates! Note: Wondering why there is no Top 3 this edition? Read the latest Editor’s Note to find out why, and what you can do to help prevent this from happening…

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I have a soft spot for Nexus, as they were the first company to send us toys for review. Granted, Marilyn was disappointed that the first batch of toys were all butt toys, but I was in prostate heaven (It’s a pretty awesome place.) I’ve used toys from all of Nexus’ different levels of stimulators, from the most basic hard plastic toys to the Nexus Vibro, which instantly became my favorite of all vibrating prostate stimulators. There’s something to like about all their products, and as you make your way up the (cost) ladder, the stuff to like becomes greater…

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I’ve actually been asked the question a lot lately. The why do a podcast, why do a website question. Why did I start it? Etc. Etc. And there are many factors that contributed, to be sure, but foremost was the fact that, as a writer by nature and a blogger, I realized that my blogging stopped dead when Marilyn and I became swingers. It just ended. Not a card, not a note, just tumbleweeds blowin’ by blog-death. And it sure as hell wasn’t because I no longer had anything to write about. There was oodles. All these new emotions and…

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