The Lifestyle Glossary Pt. 1 🤓

What exactly is a soft swap? What’s the difference between a hotwife and a stag/vixen dynamic? And why does everyone keep talking about unicorns?

In this bonus episode, we start building a shared vocabulary for the lifestyle by breaking down some of the most common terms you’ll encounter in swinging, ENM spaces, dating apps, and lifestyle communities.

Using our best understanding (and a healthy amount of curiosity), we walk through:

• soft swap vs full swap
• same room vs separate room play
• parallel play
• hotwife dynamics
• stag/vixen relationships
• cuckolding
• bulls and unicorns

We also talk about why communication matters so much, how different communities use these terms differently, and why learning the language can make exploring these spaces feel a lot less intimidating.

This isn’t meant to be the definitive dictionary—just two curious scientists trying to make the terminology a little less overwhelming.

And yes… somehow we also end up talking about Love Is Blind.

Resources Mentioned:

• Feeld glossary - https://feeld.co/glossary
• Polyamory For Dummies - https://a.co/d/0gHXL7DA

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