Swinger couple experience an increased feeling of warmth, closeness, and love, often most intense immediately after swinging, when the couple got together and exchanged their experiences. This is as if the swinging experience was proof of their love. Also an appreciation of gratitude for mutually accepting the lifestyle.

Knowledge and confidence regarding sexual technique was more fully developed than it was possibly in a monogamous relationship. Social life was enriched and active. Swinger couples became more open and honest with one another in all areas of their relationship.

A benefit for some was that sexual behavior was taken out of the dark and became more of a taken-for granted normal activity.

Another effect of swinging is that there is a change in the meaning of sex that is, of what is appropriate sexual behavior, in what situation, and with whom.

Sexual behavior in swinging becomes more broadly defined to accommodate a wider range and choice of behavior than in a typical monogamous relationship.

Sex takes on a different meaning for a wife and her spouse when she engages in oral-genital sex with another swinger in the presence of her husband. In addition, the idea that sexual exclusivity between marriage partners symbolizes devotion, trust, security, and love no longer holds, and nonexclusively comes to symbolize these things.

Further, sexual behavior loses its mystery, its secretiveness, and its aspect of something done in the dark and takes on more the character of normal everyday activity.