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According to economic studies on swinging, the information and communications technology revolution, together with improvements in medicine, has been effective in reducing some of the costs of swinging and hence in increasing the number of swingers.

And the economic approaches which seem best suited to capture the empirical data are those based on the concept of hedonic adaptation.

These approaches suggest that it is consistent with maximizing swingers ’ strategy to begin from " soft " swinging and only later engage in " harder " swinging, and that also the search for ever new sexual experiences delays long-period hedonic adaptation and hence increases swingers ’ long-period wellbeing.

Both these theoretical predictions seem to find confirmation in the empirical data on swinger behaviour.