FabSwingers is a

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website for swingers and those seeking

casual sex Casual sex is sexual activity that takes place outside a romantic relationship and implies an absence of commitment, emotional attachment, or familiarity between sexual partners. Examples are sexual activity while casually dating, one-nig ...

. Founded in 2006 by a swinging couple, the website has options for men, women and

transgender A transgender (often shortened to trans) person has a gender identity different from that typically associated with the sex they were sex assignment, assigned at birth. The opposite of ''transgender'' is ''cisgender'', which describes perso ...

users, and allows users to sort by location, venues, as well as individual

fetishes A fetish is an object believed to have supernatural powers, or in particular, a human-made object that has power over others. Essentially, fetishism is the attribution of inherent non-material value, or powers, to an object. Talismans and amulets ...

and

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. It has a companion website called Fab Guys which is aimed at

gay ''Gay'' is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual. The term originally meant 'carefree', 'cheerful', or 'bright and showy'. While scant usage referring to male homosexuality dates to the late ...

and

bisexual Bisexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual behavior toward both males and females. It may also be defined as the attraction to more than one gender, to people of both the same and different gender, or the attraction t ...

men.

Features

A personal profile on FabSwingers can represent a single person or a couple and consists of age,

gender Gender is the range of social, psychological, cultural, and behavioral aspects of being a man (or boy), woman (or girl), or third gender. Although gender often corresponds to sex, a transgender person may identify with a gender other tha ...

and

sexual orientation Sexual orientation is an enduring personal pattern of romantic attraction or sexual attraction (or a combination of these) to persons of the opposite sex or gender, the same sex or gender, or to both sexes or more than one gender. Patterns ar ...

along with a list of interests which can include

cuckoldry A cuckold is the husband of an adulterous wife (or partner for unmarried companions); the wife of an adulterous husband is a cuckquean. In biology, a cuckold is a male who unwittingly invests parental effort in juveniles who are not geneti ...

, dogging and

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, among others. Profiles can also be verified for authenticity when the user submits a photograph of themselves along with their username written down. FabSwingers operates on a

freemium Freemium, a portmanteau of the words "free" and "premium", is a pricing strategy by which a basic product or service is provided free of charge, but money (a premium) is charged for additional features, services, or virtual (online) or physical ( ...

model with features including seeing higher-resolution photos and seeing other users who have looked at the logged-in profile. Advertising is also removed for paying members.

Reception

The

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of the website has been criticised for being dated.

Incidents

In March 2018, Jesse McDonald fatally stabbed Naomi Hersi, a

transgender woman A trans woman or transgender woman is a woman who was assigned male at birth. Trans women have a female gender identity and may experience gender dysphoria (distress brought upon by the discrepancy between a person's gender identity and their ...

, following an encounter arranged on FabSwingers. He was found guilty of

murder Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification (jurisprudence), justification or valid excuse (legal), excuse committed with the necessary Intention (criminal law), intention as defined by the law in a specific jurisd ...

and sentenced on 1 November.

References

External links

* * {{Official website, {{Wikidata, property, raw, Q134740418, P856, {{Wikidata, label, Q134740418 Swinging (sexual practice) British social networking websites Internet properties established in 2006 Image-sharing websites Video hosting Freemium