Cooper S. Beckett – Life on the Swingset: Recent Episodes
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I have this weird expectation of grief that I first realized way back in junior high. Oddly it was a Simpsons episode that showed it to me. In season 2, there was an episode (One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish) where Homer may have eaten poisonous fish at a sushi restaurant, and then is [...]
Ophilia and I were chasing the squirting orgasm. Perhaps one should never “chase” such things as it can cause undue pressure, but she wanted to see if she could have one and I wanted to do my best to facilitate that. Since the beginning of our relationship we'd been using “brute-force” g-spot orgasm toys, namely [...]
It's really been a year, hasn't it? I know I've been quieter than usual, at least here on the blog. I've been outspoken to the point of blithering loudmouth elsewhere, though. Including a misguided, if impassioned, attempt to reign in someone trolling in a Trump hat on election night at #SSDesire.
It's hard to divorce the word Vesper from Vesper Lynd, the very first Bond girl, and the one played fabulously by Eva Green in Casino Royale. I suppose it's fitting that this vibe is surprisingly classy. I say surprisingly because, while I've met and experienced many a vibrator in my time, including some of the [...]
When you're hanging out with author, educator, all around brilliant fellow (and butt guru) Charlie Glickman, and he leans over and tells you that he's working on developing a new butt plug, you take notice. At the mention of a Charlie Glickman developed plug, he had my curiosity, upon arrival to find it with rotating [...]
This project has been unlike any other I’ve thus far undertaken. A Life Less Monogamous began its life as a screenplay I wrote back, in my early days of swinging, pre-Life on the Swingset and other nonsense. Over the course of my time “on the swingset” I’d noodled around with the first five thousand words [...]
What day is today? It's Life on the Swingset's birthday! What a day for a birthday! Let's all have some cake! Weren't we just here? Didn't we just do this? The myth that time moves faster as you age I think is just that. I think it's that we see more, do more, are busier, [...]
Well, the holiday season is here. Whatever holiday you're celebrating, even if it's just the celebration that this year is almost fucking done, it's not a bad time to buy someone you love, or like, or just want to fuck until they can't walk straight, an awesome sex toy. Every time I go to a [...]
Beyond asking that you go buy all of the things over at SheVibe, I don't think comment is even needed. Thank you, SheVibe, I've always felt that you should always be yourself, unless you can be Indiana Jones, then always be Indiana Jones.
Ollivander couldn't have picked one better, atop his rickety ladder, sliding out a long thin box and handing it down to me. This is it. This one. This wand. Back in the day, the original Hitachi Magic Wand was the untouchable pinnacle of vibrators. Strong, reliable, competently brute force. “We'll get that orgasm outta ya!” [...]
Ophilia and I sat down to talk about the Tantus Black Widow Connoisseur Harness. We recorded our conversation and are presenting it here both in audio form as well as a transcription. Cooper: Today we're reviewing the Black Widow Connoisseur Harness from Tantus. This is also sometimes called the Spiderman Harness. Ophilia: I did feel [...]
Ophilia and I sat down to talk about the Tantus Flurry O2 Dildo. We recorded our conversation and are presenting it here both in audio form as well as a transcription. Cooper: Today we're talking about the Tantus Flurry O2 Dildo. Ophilia: Yes, it makes me want ice cream. Cooper: Specifically a McFlurry? Ophilia: I'm [...]
Ophilia and I sat down to talk about the New York Toy Collective's Shilo Dildo. We recorded our conversation and are presenting it here both in audio form as well as a transcription. Cooper: Today we're talking about the New York Toy Collective's Shilo Dildo Ophilia: Yes, I like it. Cooper: I like it too. [...]
Ophilia and I sat down to talk about the Tantus‘ Uncut #1 – Uncircumcised Dildo. We recorded our conversation and are presenting it here both in audio form as well as a transcription. Cooper: Today we are reviewing pre-release a new dildo from Tantus called the Uncut and we have the large uncut and by the [...]
Cooper's first book My Life on the Swingset is 100 days old today! To celebrate the first of many milestones, we'll be posting two interviews that he did recently. The second of which has Cooper visiting long time friend, and podcast guru Cunning Minx on the Polyamory Weekly podcast. Below is the description of the episode: “Cooper [...]
Cooper's first book My Life on the Swingset is 100 days old today! To celebrate the first of many milestones, we'll be posting two interviews that he did recently. The first of which has Cooper sitting down with Mr & Mrs Jones of the We Gotta Thing podcast. Below is their description of the episode: “In [...]
Nearly a month has passed, and the show has not left my mind. Not even close. Thanks to my incredible constant, my generous wife Ophilia, I was able to see John Cameron Mitchell perform the titular role in Hedwig and the Angry Inch on Broadway. I was able to share a moment with a precious few. Share [...]
Quite a bit of time has passed since I last put forth a manifesto, a why I do what I do statement. I thought, on the occasion of Swingset’s fifth birthday and 200th episode, it’d be worth some reflection. I know, I know, it seems sometimes that “meandering reflection” could very well be the definition [...]
Realizing that it's truly not fair to over hate on things when you've never actually experienced them, my lovely Miss Ophilia and I decided to head out to the multiplex and experience a bit of this whole Fifty Shades thing that all the youngins are talking about. And because we'll probably hate it (it didn't [...]
Hey all! Cooper here. I was lucky enough to be asked to be a guest expert on Dan Savage's Savage Love column. This post originally appeared here on January 21, 2015 I live in a small city in a semirural area. I'm a single woman and am attracted to the idea of an underground swinger [...]
First, I promise that Life on the Swingset won't be the All My Life on the Swingset Channel after this week. I did very much so hijack my website for the launch of My Life on the Swingset: Adventures in Swinging & Polyamory. Like Gary Oldman, I hijacked it. But today is Saturday, the week [...]
It's no secret that before a fateful night in San Francisco in 2011, I wasn't all that kinky. I'd dabbled, sure, but in general I never quite felt the urge or the need. I could see why other people did it as well. It took a night at Mission Control in San Fran to change [...]
A while back I reviewed the Realtouch, a masturbation machine, and was rather astonished to find it to be a pretty damned good product. Sure it was oversized, connected by large cables, heavy, and noisy, but it got me right to orgasm rather quickly and impressively. A device like this has the potential to be the [...]
Do you think we, as producers, purveyors, purchasers, and patrons, could all just agree that it is unlikely that something will come along to “revolutionize” male masturbation in sex toy form? I've been doing this a while, and have seen so many so-called “revolutionary” products come and go, none being quite so revolutionary, or worse [...]
I have many pieces in my toy collection that I feel could be considered objects of art. The nJoy toys definitely qualify, several of the glass toys, a few wooden dildos. All pleasure objects. Art pieces. The Corkscrew from Fucking Sculptures definitely qualifies. It is perhaps one of the most beautiful objects of art in [...]
We don't have a new Swingset episode this week ‘cuz, reasons. Summer, etc. Moving. You know the drill. That said, Miko, Ophilia, and I have released the first episode of Eat The Rudecast, an Unofficial Podcast about NBC's Hannibal, Hannibal Lecter and the works of Thomas Harris. Since there was no new episode this week, [...]
I've mentioned my safer sex kit extensively over the years, and the kit itself has ballooned in that time. I'll be the first to admit that my definition of safer sex (earlier “safe sex”) has changed since the moment I started carrying one. (And even moreso now that we've been calling it “Risk Aware Sex“) [...]
Perhaps I'm jaded. As I do this longer it becomes harder and harder to impress me, sex toy wise. I think that this is why, when our Holiday Toy Special comes around, year after year I throw my number one pick to the nJoy Eleven. It's inevitable, in fact, that when you see a LOT [...]
Quite a lot of time has gone by since I last shifted my lube allegiance. In the early days of swinging, and the early days of this blog, I tried out just about every type of lube I saw. Mainly because other swingers had their own lube allegiances, too. So while I was trying out [...]
There was a long topic suggestion on the #coop500 hashtag revolving around the various types of nudity levels expected at play parties. And I fully intend to get to that topic. But I also like the idea of just talking about nudity, and wrapping that into body image as a male. This is where I [...]
“Is monogamy dead?” is a question being asked by almost every major news publication and magazine over the last two years. Awareness of alternatives to traditional monogamy is at an all time high, as more people are seeking resources to intelligently explore swinging, open relationships, and polyamory. Life on the Swingset strives to bring together [...]
We all know that the Tenga Egg may be the best bang for your buck sex toy as far as yours truly is concerned. It's inexpensive, it feels like God's hand, and it's got a lifespan of about 10-20 uses despite being called a one use toy. So let's take this as fact. (he says, [...]
We here at The Swingset are always happy to help with any questions or concerns you have, please don’t hesitate to ask! Q. My wife of 18 years and I are new to the lifestyle. We are both loving the hell out of it and feel great about what it is doing for us and [...]
CatalystCon West will be my third Sex Positive conference. My third time amongst throngs of people who feel the way I do. At least on the subject of sex being a right, sex being awesome, and sex needing more positivity surrounding it. That's it, right? Why we do what we do? To educate, and enlighten, [...]
Oh, my. The things I do for science. And I'm using “things I do” in its full colloquial literal sense here, as I've just “done” the “Perfect Woman.” Not so long ago IRL, but at the very beginning of Life on the Swingset, I happily accepted then the strangest toy I've ever interacted with outside [...]
It's possible that I've used the KinkLab Power Tripper add-on for the spectacular Neon Wand product in a way that (while I'd never say nobody) few ever have before. But I should back up. About a year ago, during a long evening of great food, great conversation, and great wine, I was introduced to the [...]
Teledildonics is one of those things that seems like the greatest idea in the world, and has for the last…fifteen years or so…somehow never seemed to materialize. We the nerdy, we the geeky, we the occasionally lonely, fantasized about a future where we could plug something into our computer and it would get us off. [...]
What can be said about the nJoy Eleven other than this lovingly crafted steel monolith is simply perfect. The Eleven may not be for everyone on account of its girth and imposing appearance, but those who've experienced it are nearly always blown away by its magnificence. I was first introduced to nJoy's toy line by [...]
It's been a while since I got to try out a new butt toy. And really, that's my own damned fault, since I seem to be incapable of finishing reviews in timely fashion. But behold I have (and have had) a butt plug to review, the Quattro plug from Fuze. This little plug initially made [...]
I see the word revolutionary tossed around a lot when it comes to sex toys for men. It's interesting that since there are so few QUALITY sex toys for penises, everybody starts screaming “¡Viva la Revolución!” when something remotely different comes down the pike. So, the VerSpanken looked different, and promised something different, I'll admit [...]