Are terms like “DTF” or “friends with benefits” shaping the swinger lifestyle, or are they masking deeper dynamics?
Are swinger just hiding behind the safety of the “friends” label? In this video, we explore the complexities of forming friendships within the lifestyle, discuss the challenges and stigmas tied to “DTF” and “FWB,” and uncover how labels impact relationships. Whether you’re navigating ENM, curious about swinging, or just seeking insight, this episode has something for everyone.
🔑 Key Moments:
- 00:00:00 – Introduction: Is “DTF” a bad thing?
- 00:00:26 – Aren’t we all DTF?
- 00:03:00 – The stigma of being DTF in the lifestyle
- 00:07:15 – Defining “friends with benefits” vs. true friendship
- 00:08:43 – Stigma and Shame surrounding sex
- 00:10:05 – Urban myths – They’re muscles so exercise them!
- 00:12:30 – Navigating challenges in FWB relationships
- 00:18:45 – Are labels hiding deeper truths about swingers?
- 00:24:00 – Practical tips for forming meaningful connections
- 00:34:00 – The Friend Zone
- 00:39:03 – Wrap Up and Questions For You
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Is being DTF a bad thing?
Is describing yourself
as friends with benefits more acceptable?
Are
perpetually in the friend zone?
Do you think swingers hide behind these labels, but they’re secretly all DTF?
I don’t know. I
to
think so.
And here’s why.
The dictionary definition says that DTF is an
indication of willingness for a sexual encounter.
Well, that sounds like all swingers.
Right? Aren’t we all willing? Like, isn’t that the
whole point that we’re all willing to have sex with somebody
else? Yes. 100%.
So
in the swinger community, DTF is
thought of as differently.
Yeah. I think the definition that people have in
their minds is more a willingness to have sex with anybody who’s breathing. Yeah. Keys in
the bowl, hike it to the bedroom, and get down to business.
Anybody, anywhere, anytime.
Yes. And that is the furthest from.
Yeah.
I think we can break down some DTF examples
of how it’s probably a little different than that understanding.
Yeah. So let’s just say how DTF is beneficial. Right? Talking can be awkward. A lot of
talking can be awkward. It can be laborious. Maybe you don’t
know what to say.
Maybe you’re the, you know, some kid’s soccer game or something, and then you get nervous because you’re like, oh, I’m not supposed to talk about that. I’m not supposed to talk. Keep it
it sexy. Keep it sexy. Don’t go into politics. Don’t talk about the
the kids. Like, what are you supposed to connect on? Right?
Right? Right. DTF also saves time.
And DTF
is always new, exciting, and
novel. Not to say that friends with
benefits can’t be that way,
And I think that that novelty aspect of kind of walking into a party and being open
to sex with anyone
really does kind of open up that NRE, that
hunt, the chase, that sense of kind of conquest. That you get when you kind of walk into a nightclub and you see somebody sexy
across the room and you go, “I wonder if they’d be
interested in having sex.” It’s that hookup culture.
Right. That goes back to your dating life and what it was like to be in your 20s
and you’re at the… Absolutely. Right. Never met them before, haven’t had a conversation.
Do I have game enough…
Right. …to connect with that person that
they’d be willing to have sex? Yes.
Now, we have the hookup culture and
the hookup culture is a
very empowering attitude towards sex. Sure.
But it does come with a stigma
absolutely is some
level of stigma in
the Swinger community towards DTI.
At least from the perspective of people
who need to be friends first.
It’s the other
side of the point, right? It’s the dark side, if you will, of swinging. Right.
there’s that devaluing of this pursuit.
Yeah, I think the way I would describe it is…
There’s a more
noble pursuit of being friends with someone,
really getting to know them, bonding
with them, going to chili cookouts with them,
that makes it not
dirty. That makes it cheap and easy. Oh. But that’s interesting. So do you think people
label themselves as friends with benefits because the DTF is dirty
and they’re already doing something dirty and secretive and… I think it’s a little bit of
a buffer from that stigma,
that easy, the slut-shaming aspect of what DTF is.
Interesting. I wonder if that has something to do with it.
dig into that a little bit.
with benefits. Okay, let’s say that that is a more noble pursuit. Let’s say that that’s the better way to go, right? Because just being
a slut and having sex with anybody is just bad.
How do you qualify or quantify friendship? What is friendship at a house party?
Right. Do you have
to wait until the second date to have sex
with somebody?
Is this a five
minute conversation or is this like you’ve seen them at event after event after event and six months later then you
can finally have sex? Right.
Yeah. If you go to a desire resort and you’re there for a whole week,
do you have to wait till Thursday night before you leave? Or
is it okay to have sex with somebody sooner
than that? Right. And if
it’s sooner than are you actually DTF?
Right. Exactly. And nobody has
that. But everyone’s quick to label.
Nobody. Nobody can define it. But everyone’s quick to label
it. Right.
And I fully
understand that people want an interaction between two individuals to mean more
and they want to trust you because you are opening your precious
relationship to another couple. And of course you want them to
be respectful and caring towards
your spouse or other significant person.
I think a lot of the stigma around DTF versus friends with benefits comes
comes down to the body count issue and not feeling like a number.
And I think that they actually have
a personality and there’s a connection with those people.
And I think a lot of that that
that connection aspect.
almost an emotional connection. Right. We’ve talked about this before where.
It’s a little bit of an emotional connection with people.
The sex is usually better. Yeah. And it
it’s really more specifically the
intimacy with another person. It’s not like you’re getting attached to them but you are sharing and very intimate moment.
can be some tenderness there. There can be some
some petting and some cuddling after there’s kind words.
There’s sexy things said. There’s all kinds of
intimate things that are occurring.
And I think a lot of the intimacy I think that you and I really enjoy is
the kind of letting your guard down a little bit
and having fun. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Because
feel comfortable enough with that person to just be yourself.
And I think that’s that’s another one of those aspects of the friends part
is that you can kind of hang out with your friends. So you’re yourself right.
You’re not putting on a facade. You’re not putting on.
Right. This persona of whatever. Right. But
we have had experiences in
the past where we’ve
been in DTF situations and we’ve laughed and asked for people’s names
afterwards. And we’ve had a really great time.
So and even though we get their contact information we never hear from them again. Right.
Probably because this is another big
advantage of DTF.
They got out of the lifestyle. Yeah. They tried it once. Yeah. So we would never have the chance to actually become friends with them because
over time they disappear.
Right. And that was it. That was your one. Your
one shot opportunity which is why DTF worked
in those situations.
Absolutely.
Two hours to get to know somebody
and.
And with them and then they’re out. Yep.
And we’ll go through that whole list of other reasons why
DTF really worked for us.
There is also stigmas around women slut shaming and body counts.
It’s I think that is pervasive in
people’s minds still even though they may not think about it.
It’s it’s a perception that’s
in the back of your head about how women should be and how they should own their sexuality.
And when we started swinging I didn’t
really step into my own sexuality until we started swinging. And I realized how powerful my sexuality was and I owned that and I could ask for what I wanted and I could
tell people what I liked.
But.
That I hadn’t I mean
that that happened when I was in my.
What 40s.
Late 40s.
I mean and and I’ve had a lot of sexual experiences but the Swinger community really brought that out of me
and it comfort. Yes.
Being able to express yourself.
Yeah. And because women are
the the gas and the brakes.
That sense of power that I had to control my environment was massive
and getting comfortable with that power took a hot hot second.
Yeah. It’s interesting. We’ve watched a couple of
documentaries recently talking about
sex and you
know loose mess if you
will. Right. From the
sociological standpoint but also from the
physiological standpoint. And
it’s interesting because
this misconception that
women who have sex all the time have loose vaginas.
Many who have sex all the time with men who have sex with men that the incontinence issue someone
brilliantly pointed out that those are muscles.
What happens when you exercise a muscle.
It gets stronger. Therefore it would actually get tighter. So the whole like Kegel exercise thing that’s exercising those muscles. Sex can do the
same thing. Orgasms are
a contraction of all of those muscles.
So having a lot of orgasms you’re working your muscles out. It’s not getting looser. I know. This was just more slut shaming of women over
centuries. It’s a horrible
mischaracter. I know. Does to you.
I think the other kind of mischaracterization that kind of goes with slut shaming is the disease factor. The STI.
But if you’re practicing safer sex.
If you’re using condoms. If you’re washing between partners. If you’re doing all the good
swing or etiquette things to kind of take care of yourself in a kind of random
environment.
You’re
cutting your risks down significantly.
Yeah. I mean condoms are pretty effective at stopping transmission of the disease. Yes.
Yes. Most STI’s. So.
100 percent. Not foolproof.
No. But. But it’s a lot safer than
than bear backing.
And.
What’s the other term we learned the other day? Oh yeah. We’re watching a hot dogging TV show.
Raw dogging. Raw dogging. Which is an
older term. But yeah. Raw dogging.
Raw dogging. Well we should bring that back. Just not do it. But just bring the term back. Yeah.
I don’t want to do that. Yes. I’ll only do that with you. Yeah. Raw. Raw.
So.
Some examples
of shaming. Sure. That
we’ve heard about in the lifestyle is someone said to us.
They’re they met this woman and they said well she said if you’re not an
an asshole and you avoid saying anything stupid. I’m just going to fuck you.
Which I think
is somewhat reasonable
if you think about it like you just met somebody
you’re you’re at a swimmer event.
And in context if you if you
just said well as long as the guy had an asshole and I’m
attracted to him why wouldn’t I have sex with them.
Yeah. That seems perfectly reasonable to me. It does seem perfectly reasonable to me.
And I think the
evaluation of whether someone is an asshole or not is
part of that getting to know them thing. Right. Just in a sense the one minute to five minute to 10 minute
friendship evaluation. Like
could you be friends with this person. Yeah. They’re not an asshole. I could get along with them. Right.
And so why would you put your value system on
somebody else because oh they didn’t spend in a whole hour
getting to know them. Maybe they only need five minutes
and hit it off. I mean everybody’s heard of love at first sight or that whole
NRE thing where they’re just like
across the bar sparks
flying. Yeah. Yeah.
Oh yeah.
Why not. You’re gonna go.
You know.
The next party. They’re not there.
Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yes. So you know a lot of people if if if they’re polite
and they’re consenting then they’re
they’re good to go. Yeah. Right. But I do understand a lot of people need more time. They need to have conversations and things like that.
kind of get some people’s perspective from the friends first point of view. It kind of goes back to this is a term that’s being fleshed out more and we’re starting to hear it more.
And that’s demisexual. That’s people who
need to have an emotional connection with someone before they have sex with them. I kind of get that. Especially if that’s
how you have sexual arousal. Right. You’re not aroused by someone unless you’re kind
of emotionally connected to them.
And I get just walking up to somebody that you don’t have any kind of emotional connection to them. But the question comes back to
how long does it take to build that emotional
connection that like I get this person.
Right.
What kinds
of things can happen in a conversation and to then label yourself as only demi or.
Or sapiosexual. Right. Where you need that
intellectual conversation to stimulate you. Right. Right. And I think
all of us to a certain degree are that.
I’m fairly certain that that’s a spectrum. Right. And that I certainly am comfortable having sex with random people.
Like I don’t have to know someone for a very long time to have sex
with them. But I certainly have to be attracted to them.
And a lot of my attraction has to do with. Are they funny.
Are they. Gaging.
Right. Maybe they’re a little assertive. Kind of like an assertive woman. Yeah.
Because it shows that they’ve got some
enthusiasm and some confidence and confidence is
sexy. Right. Right. To be able to see those characteristics of a person. Yeah. You can really build that. Spark. Yeah. That. That totally makes sense. I also think DTF is
very situational. So much.
Because your club environment versus your resort environment is going to be completely different. Yeah. The pace is different. Yes. So.
A nightclub is definitely. You know.
The bar closes at two. Yep.
So you got to make your moves fast. You got to find the people. There’s a lot of activity in a very small space. Yeah.
Chop chop. Yes. And the quality
of the connection is going to be different because in a club it’s a loud environment.
Right. So you really don’t have good conversations.
You can’t. You can’t have a good conversation.
They’re very surface. What? What?
Yeah. Huh?
That’s so funny. I can’t hear that at all. Exactly.
So I could imagine at
a resort it’s well we’ve
been to a resort. So yes we do know you
there are plenty of opportunities over breakfast
lunch dinner etc. Down by the beach whatever
at the pool. You’re lounging. You go for a
walk. Yes. You’re on an excursion with someone. Yes. You’re bonding over cocoa beans. Yes. Like I get it. I get it. So looking back
now that we’ve been swingers for 11 plus years our first experiences were very DTF
and a lot of that was the
area we live in.
We
don’t have clubs here.
Well there is one but it’s far away.
available in your area highly depends on really
how you swing. Your finances
We didn’t have money to get on a cruise.
We didn’t have money to go to an adult resort.
We were busy raising
kids. We didn’t have time to spend away.
So we relied on house parties. We relied
on
that were happening
four times a year. They had
the big Halloween, the New Year’s, the glow party
and something else.
That was it.
found ourselves in orgies a lot of the time and
we had a lot of fun and we really liked those
really DTF scenarios.
You’re not having a lot of conversation
with people. In fact sometimes you’re
not saying anything to that person
and we would
go and we would observe
orgies and sometimes we jump in. Sometimes we just
just sit and watch.
Sometimes someone
would give us a little come hither finger and
we’d participate.
But
they always started off gentle and
soft. They didn’t always turn into full. But we really
had some wonderful, caring, fun,
great experiences in orgies that were defined as DTF.
We didn’t know most of those
people. In fact we hadn’t even seen them until we
got in that room. Yeah there were a lot of times where we would do the mingle thing down
on the dance floor and we would
introduce ourselves and meet people but none of them were going to the playroom. So by the time we got up to the playroom and it was getting later, people would play really really late in the evening and we didn’t want
to wait. So we would just start
playing early or start playing before anybody else would head start and we would end up kind of stirring up the crowd and
getting people to join in with us and
there wasn’t a lot of conversation. No.
I mean you don’t want to kill the mood.
You have your basic conversation about here are my condoms, here are my lube, I like
this, I like this, this and this. I don’t want that,
that and that.
And you’re
good to go
The other thing I loved about orgies was people
are always talking about that synergy or we have to wait till the stars align and
when you know you know. Well
a lot of times we would walk into a room where the orgy was
and you could just feel the electricity and you
knew you wanted to be part of it.
You knew that you needed
to be in on that bed in the action.
And so we would we would step up
and we would ask politely can
we join or can I touch
and people would respond
respond whether they said yes
or no sometimes we would get a no sometimes they
said we’re only playing together.
now and it wasn’t yeah it wasn’t very often
but that that’s
where I think people are missing out on some really great opportunities to be DTF because
you’re missing out on those
moments right those electric moments that are that
people keep talking about. Right yeah that
once in a lifetime chance. Yes.
So in those in those situations
that we found ourselves in especially the
early ones which were very soft swap did
you ever feel like you weren’t being
cared for or that you were being
used.
No no because I had a voice I was still practicing how to use my
voice sometimes I was worried more about how others felt than how I felt
but I never felt like anyone was uncaring
or rude
or you know breaking any boundaries.
Yeah and I had the same
impression during those experiences everybody was
was very in tune
with each other. Yeah. There was a lot of
not and this was some
of the magic of what those early experiences were there was a lot of
nonverbal consent granted.
Yeah tell by their body language and
their facial expressions and how they approach you that they were respectful that they
wanted to participate but they you know were being
gentle. Yeah. Yeah I liked I liked those that was
a fun time it was a fun time. Good
good first few years after we got over the awkward. Oh yeah oh yeah that that right.
All right so
friends with benefits let’s talk about that.
This is defined as friends who’s trust
each other enough to engage in
sexual activity. Okay great.
Classic definition right and I
think the kind of the urban dictionary version is
hey you up.
Yeah.
So just that
friend you can call anytime and you’re so comfortable with them that you could just have sex with them at any
point. Right. Or not have sex
with them. Right. Although I think it tends to
be and you can answer this better than me people
who you predominantly call not
to hang out and be friends with but just to call for like a movie. Yeah the
friends with but yes and so
good point the friends with benefits not lifestyle is really it’s you like
a single person who you’re DTF with all the time. Yes yes you don’t go to dinner with them
you don’t hang out they don’t go to your kids soccer
soccer game. Yes.
It’s mostly the benefits.
Right but in the swinger
community it’s more heavy on
the friend side. Right. A lot more barbecues.
With a little bit of benefits.
So I
get this this friendship
aspect you know for women we we like to
feel safe right. Safety is key to feeling
erotic or allowing that eroticism to come
out and women experience safety differently in the world
than men do. And we
need a little bit of that emotion connection or that intimacy that we were talking about earlier.
So the safety is really key to that.
Yeah I mean it’s an invasive process especially if you’re talking about full
on penis in vagina
penetrative sex or or even oral sex about like for a guy it’s pretty external like everything’s on the outside.
We’re very internal. Everything’s very internal.
Yes so.
Yes.
Trust me. I know.
What is some of the
downsides of friends with benefits. I mean the safety is good. We talked about that. I mean it’s plus is what I don’t know how many other pluses you get to know them. There’s that trust in the caring and things like that. It
makes you feel comfortable. But the
downsides are. I think the
biggest downside that we’ve experienced with the friends with benefits and to be clear we’ve moved
out of the DTF. Yes sort
of. We’re swinging back towards the friends with benefits because
we want that deeper emotional connection. Yeah. This has been our struggle
with the whole finding friends in the lifestyle.
Yeah you go. We invest a
significant amount of time really getting to know someone and hanging out with them and spending
time with them and
then they get out of the lifestyle. Yeah.
They have their own thing. They’ve got to figure something out and not only do we not have the friends with benefits anymore. Yeah. A lot of times when people exit
from the lifestyle they exit. Yes.
They don’t talk to anybody in the lifestyle anymore.
They’re done done. Yeah. We’ve had friends we’ve talked about this before on the podcast.
We can’t even have go have dinner with them.
Right. They don’t call us for you know hot wings.
Or you get so friendly that you
start learning things about them that make
them less attractive like
maybe their political stance.
Yes.
And
sometimes especially in these days it can be a deal breaker for some couples. Yeah. Yeah.
And it’s disappointing and
a lot of people I know are saying well that’s
your mistake for you know talking politics. Well you know sometimes it just kind of
comes up casually
and people go there and you just try to stop the conversation from going there and it happens.
Or you just happen to stumble across their social media platform. Yeah. And their profile and then then it’s over which goes back to our whole thing which is like social media is fucking evil.
Because
it has the potential to ruin
a friendship with someone because now you’ve seen what they’ve pushed. Yeah. And it’s not that they interact with maybe the outside world. They may be really nice to you
but whatever their stance is you just
can’t stand for that. Right. And
it takes a lot of time to to build those swing our friendships. Your it’s weeks of of a build
up the the the chatting
online maybe the exchange of pictures trying
to coordinate a date with four people.
And
and then of course there’s getting ready setting the time picking the place.
Oh what does everybody want to eat that night right. People are
picky. And then you
get there and it gets to game day and it’s
it’s not so great. I mean I can’t tell you how many 20
hours invested in a friendship and you go and you finally meet him for dinner and you’re like
God I can’t wait to get out of here.
It’s like what a waste of my time.
Yeah. And I think a lot of that is one kind of like online flirting thing. Yeah. Real life flirting thing. Right.
But even if you’ve been on several dates with them especially
if you’re waiting right you’ve got this friends with benefits
mindset you you’re waiting to really get to know them. Yes. By the time you really do get to know them you don’t actually find them sexually right
because you know too much. It
gets in the way of having
fun sexually or
you’ve waited so long that you don’t
know how to transition anymore.
Yes.
And good friends which we’re going to talk about.
So too much talking never
get the fucking and the adult resorts sometimes.
They are great. They really are. You have a lot of time to get to
know somebody but sometimes. That’s a slippery
slope. Yeah. Because I think a lot
of people get so comfortable hanging out doing the pool activities and playing shuffleboard 100 percent. Forget that
they’re there to meet couples and hook up. Right. By the time they wake
up after their fourth all-nighter drink. Right. Karaoke bar piano dueling.
Yeah. They realize we’re going home in
two days. Fuck anybody.
Yeah. We just spent five grand to get here
and we. The Swinger tax and haven’t had
any swinging experience. Right.
And five grand is the conservative dollar amount.
Which.
You have. Yes. Where you flew from.
Right.
So.
Yes. If you’re not verbally expressing your interest and you’re not
making that proposal.
And you’re not sealing the
deal. Yeah. Which we have.
Podcast on as
well. Yeah. We’re going to be doing that one. Very soon.
Then you’re not going to get to the finish
line.
So your NRE your new relationship energy gets
depleted. You know, started off great at the first part of the week. And now it’s just.
Right. And.
Now. It could be different if depending on how you’ve defined your friendship.
Right. Maybe your friends are people you only see
twice a year at the same resort. Every year.
I could see how your NRE would be. Supercharged right. Because you’ve only seen him twice a year.
Maybe you’ve worked throughout the year. Kind of build
up that. Tension. Right. When you
finally get to the resort.
Let’s go.
Ready to go. Yeah. Wait. Right. But
really depends on how often you see that
couple. Yeah. I think it depends a lot on the dynamic with that couple.
I can,
I can picture some of the couples that we’ve hooked up with before kind of having that. Kind of ongoing spark.
But that’s not very often.
That’s not very common to have that like
supercharged.
No, it’s not.
And usually it.
Burns out. It burns too hot, too
quick. And it. Yeah. Fizzles. Or like we said, they get a little bit of a shock. And then they get a little bit of a shock. And then they get a little bit of a shock. And then they get a little bit of a shock. Yeah. Fizzles. Or
like we said, they get out of it. Or they get out of it or something weird happens like.
Oh, so then what happens when your friend zoned?
You come to regard someone solely as a friend.
Despite their sexual interest.
And this is really the
death of a swinging opportunity. Honestly.
Yeah. We’ve had this happen. We’ve had this happen to us. We’ve heard it. From other couples who’ve had this happen. There was a.
Quad plus. Because they had.
A few extras that would kind of rotate through. Yeah.
We had heard from them that. You know, after a while.
It kind of gets a little. Same old. Same shit. Different day. Yeah.
Right. And we’re swingers.
We like novelty. So hence. Right. New. You’re always trying to bring in the new and bringing in the new. Especially if you want friends. Takes time. It takes time to cultivate that. So if you’re looking for.
More sexual experiences.
On a regular basis. DTF might be your jam.
Right. Maybe you consider it.
Absolutely.
Now, some people have said, well, if it gets too comfy, you can always just bring it back. You just need to revive that spark. You could. Play a sex game.
Or, or just talk to them and say, Hey, it’s been a
while since we’ve. We’ve done, you know, Let’s set
a play date. Let’s set up a play date. But not
everybody could do that. Right. Some people feel like once you’ve slipped into that friend zone, it’s just.
Dead. Yeah. It’s hard to jumpstart.
That spark. Again. Yeah.
And, and.
When that
spark that NRE is, is good.
It’s, it’s got that.
Afterburn effect, right? It’s your, your coasting.
Your hormones are lingering and. It increases passion with your primary partner. And then when it’s gone.
Uh,
What’s gone.
Right.
So.
And we definitely found that in, in our early experiences where. These
new kind of.
Really exciting sexual experiences. Would get us pumped up and recharged and it would kind of recharge power batteries.
For. Sometimes weeks or
a month. Oh yeah. At least until the next party. And then we would kick started off again. Go over and over and over again. And it was really good for that to kind of. Have those hormones. From the, from the, from the, from the, from the, from the, from the, from the new relationship. But. Have to be in a new relationship.
Right. And what was great about the orgies was you really didn’t depend on NRE. It was
a different type of. Energy and synergy that was
going on. It was just.
Sexual magnetism. Right.
Right. So we still
had a great time, but we didn’t get, we didn’t have that.
Sparky thing that a lot of people are looking for in order to
hook up.
And. It was just
a situation.
But. Right. Exactly.
you’re, you’re waiting, right? For the stars to align, you’re waiting for that energy. Energy that spark to happen. Sometimes you.
You could wait and wait and wait, and then you don’t pull the trigger. And then it starts to fade.
Right. And.
Maybe your inhibitions are altered because you’ve been drinking or doing whatever. And the first time is great, but the next time. You meet up your sober and now.
The sparks not there. As interesting as they were the last time. Right. As funny as they were.
So this whole, I guess the point I’m getting to is this whole focus on. Finding that spark that those people with that NRE energy, that’s what it’s going to take for me to, you
know, fuck you.
That’s pretty
rare.
Yeah.
And I think.
We’ve definitely found that it’s. More situation that creates that spark. Yes. Yes. The individual people. And that’s not to say that the people weren’t sexy or that they weren’t interesting. It’s just that being in
a charge situation where.
People are
horny.
And a lot of people that are horny in a small space makes for a lot of fun
energy. Exactly.
So we want to know what your thoughts are on DTF. FWB and the friend zone couples. Do you think they hide behind definitions? Yeah. I think we should just wrap this up. Yeah. I think we should just wrap this up. Yeah. So. We’re going to end it behind definitions.
Like FWB and friend
zone because they’re afraid of labeling themselves as DTF.
Do you see value? In DTF. We hope we inspired some interesting thoughts
and perspectives with
DSTIGMITIZE DTF and the community
and really encourage you to type in your comments.
maybe if DTF kind of sits uncomfortably with you
and you’re not full on DTF and you still need a little bit of that connection, maybe you’re a hybrid model.
Maybe you’re somewhere in between the two. And I think that that’s
where probably most of us are. We’ve talked about sexuality being very fluid. It’s a spectrum.
I think that this balance between having friendships and being open for any kind of sexual experience or
open to sexual experiences allows us
to kind of have some fluidity between those two definitions. And I think this is one of the reasons why definitions are sometimes shied away from by a lot of people because if you label yourself, does that mean that
that’s the only way that you define yourself
or is there some nuance there or some subtlety? Right. And I think that there’s a lot of nuance and
subtlety between DTF and friends with benefits
because I think we fit somewhere somewhere in the middle between those two. Yeah. And depending on the situation, we’re a little bit more one or the other.
Yeah. Yeah. It highly depends on the situation.
Yeah, absolutely.
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