On a poly newsgroup or list, most swingers will find the conversation too focused on relationships, and organizing various family combinations. Swinging is often more heterosexual couples looking for other heterosexual couples and you will often find more in the closet Christians than Pagens. Many swingers are really looking for polyamory, but since swing clubs and swing publications are far more numerous than polyamory, many people looking for real relationships identify with swingers but seek more than what traditional swinging offers. This is especially true of couples who only want to meet other couples for a more meaningful relationship that may include picnics and non sexual activities with the entire family. Swinging is virtually exclusively couples, other than groups out to make money off of the many single men who just want to watch people have sex.
Polyamory groups are often open to all, although many groups seek relative gender balance.
You play the game, then disconnect and go home with your primary partner. It is instead, about recreational friendly sex. Swinging is about protecting our relationships not risking them. At Liberated Christians we totally support swinging, but our real interest is real intimacy, polyamory and overcoming jealousy by love not by avoiding any real intimacy. But this is much harder than just having recreational sex with relative strangers.