In recent years, many industry experts have commented on the marked increase of swinger and adult dating web sites and market places on the web, as the growth of adult oriented web sites has brought ready and willing participants in the swinger lifestyle in droves, ready to meet and date other swingers in an environment of anonymity.

As the swingers dating community grows, it is interesting to note the ease with which both genders can shed their inhibitions online. Like any publicly derided alternative lifestyle, many participants in swingers dating feel they can't display their desires to the public as they may be too shy to allow others into such a private and intimate part of their personal lives. History is riddled with this type of persecution, from Sodom and Gomorrah to the burning of witches in primitive times, the darkest aspects of society can always be viewed through the lens of the morally upright.

But in the modern day, online swingers and daters are assured of anonymity and can say what they feel and explore dating options without fear of any breach of privacy, allowing many daters and swingers to open up about themselves in a way that they might never have previously considered. It is this very trend of keeping an insulating barrier of privacy from the world that attracts many dating enthusiasts to online swingers sites and communities, as they provide an atmosphere of privacy that allows even the shyest wallflower to be themselves and safely express their desires and needs to other swingers.

Many swingers have lived their lives in complete denial due to the lack of an outlet for their desires and the public nature of the dating ritual in most areas. After all, potential swingers candidates must be met in some conceivably public location and then subsequently wooed and seduced, all difficult activities when conducted in the public eye, especially amidst family and friends, or when living and residing in a small town, where everyone's business is public. These specific circumstances can be far more common and problematic than they might appear at first glance, as the location and geographical isolation of the prospective swinger can cause innumerable difficulties in the area of dating and meeting new potential swingers and couples.

After these otherwise restricted swingers find the online communities of similarly minded swingers, many feel as if they have been exposed to an atmosphere of pure unadulterated freedom, without the presence of those whose judgment they might have previously feared or avoided in the run of their normal everyday lives where the business of members of the public is exactly that; Public business. In this new world of online communities featuring anonymous swingers and swinger related lifestyles, members shed their inhibitions in a hurry and find complete acceptance among a community that understands and identifies with each other, as well as newcomers.

In this community atmosphere, where everyone is free to speak and do as they feel without the harsh eye of judgment deterring the otherwise happy pursuit of the free and easy swingers lifestyle, swinger's relationships can flourish and they feel free enough to allow their inhibitions to run wild and unrestrained.