This article addresses swinger practice as a lifestyle in Cali, Colombia, from a cross-discipline perspective, using sociology, anthropology and psychoanalysis. This understanding of swinger sexuality as a meaningful, socially binding practice questions prejudiced, moralizing assessments shared by those who consider it a transgression, and by professionals in the 'psi' field, who classify it as perverse. This article challenges both stances, which misrecognize inflexions resulting from current transformations of intimacy.
Lifestyle; swinger; Sexuality; Perversion; Colombia