Author: Ms. Scarlet

Ms. Scarlet is a newbie non-monogamist. She lives in a really Red part of fly over country, hence the name Ms. Scarlet. She likes contact sports, massages, rum, fast cars, ice cream, and good oral sex - not necessarily in that order. You can find her discussing the latest sex news and other things on Twitter as @MsScarletBlogs

I used to own my own business. Hiring people was always a challenge. There are so many flakes out there. People who didn’t show up to interviews. People who showed up late to interviews without calling and expect one the next day. People who when hired didn’t show up to work. People who you couldn’t count on to in fact do work. People who showed up late or erratically. People who quit with no notice and then later wanted their job back. Does this sound like your search for like minded swingers? In two months we have met up with…

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You don’t have to be involved with swinging for very long before you learn the term “Unicorn.” A single, preferably hot, bi-sexual woman. Some say they are named that as they are supposedly uncatchable. Some say they are named that because people think they are rare. They may be less common and they certainly have the advantage of getting in to the clubs for free or cheap but I’ve met several so it appears more likely that the issue is actually one demand greatly outstripping supply in that single guys want them, single girls often want them, and the vast…

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I have been married a long time. As in I have long since passed the anniversaries of wood, steel, and crystal and am now approaching the year for platinum. Mr. Scarlet will love that and I’d better tell him to start saving now. But I digress. It did not take us too long (about half an evening at the swing club) before we discovered that there are several, for lack of a better word, matchmaking websites out there. So when we got home, I started setting up profiles. After trying to figure out a good name and a good memorable…

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I have now been “in the lifestyle” a grand total of five weeks. Five very interesting weeks, five very educational weeks. While I suppose that I will eventually blog about why Mr. Scarlet and I decided to take the swinger plunge, what we hope to get out of it, our opinions on all things swinger/poly/open, what I really want to talk about in this blog is the experience of being a newbie. Obviously, this is really just about my experience of being a newbie. To those in the lifestyle already for a long time, your mileage may vary. But maybe…

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