A married mother who attended her first sex festival and was too shy to tell her family and friends is now sharing her experience and encouraging others to give it a try.
Britain’s biggest sex festival took place in Allington, just outside Grantham, Lincolnshire, and saw a thousand people descend on the picturesque, sleepy village for the four-day event.
One festival-goer, a 47-year-old office worker, attended with her electrician husband and spent the weekend meeting, greeting and “getting intimate with like-minded couples.”
The mother-of-two from the Midlands admitted to MailOnline: ‘We’re both quite shy and had no idea what to expect, but it exceeded all our hopes and fantasies.
‘Some people might consider it sleazy and seedy, but it’s not. These are couples, many of them in happy, long-term relationships, who want to spice up their sex life. What’s wrong with that?’
“We are all consenting adults and nothing inappropriate or illegal is going on. We are just having a bit of fun. It’s absolutely amazing!”
The Swingathon sex festival allows kinky guests to search for sex toys and cool each other off with water hoses.
The festival also offers hot tub fun, as well as game tents, pole dancing and foam parties.
Residents in the quiet village of Allington said they do not mind the festival going ahead as long as it is “kept secret”.
Residents have complained to police that in previous years residents have heard “screams and moans” coming from the rural site which kept them from sleeping at night.
Stunning brown-haired Sally, who declined to give her full name, spoke to MailOnline during a short shopping trip away from the Swingathon near the picturesque and quiet village of Allington, just outside Grantham, Lincolnshire.
She said: ‘It was our first swingers event, but we were embarrassed to tell anyone we knew where we were actually going.
‘We arrived on Friday night and were very nervous, but luckily there was a costume party going on which helped us to dispel some of our inhibitions.
‘We put on our outfits, it was a bit daring but it helped us relax and everyone seemed to embrace the dress-up theme.’
A thousand people attended the swingers and fetish festival, considered the largest in the country, in fields hidden from prying eyes.
It included play tents, pole dancing, hot tubs, foam parties, mobile dungeons and butt plug bingo.
Kinky guests, who paid up to £265 a ticket, could browse and buy sex toys, cool each other off with water hoses and frolic naked or in skimpy underwear.
The tents were packed with kinky whips and chains, spanking paddles and bondage gear and a ‘SpicyLounge’ that lured customers in for ‘Something to Behold… Along with the Moon!’
Sally, who has been married to her 55-year-old husband for 23 years, and together they have two grown-up daughters, aged 18 and 22, smiled: “It helped put the spark back into our sex lives!”
Kinky revelers posed in barely-there outfits at Britain’s biggest swingers festival
Festival-goers pose spectacularly as the Swingathon enters its third day
Pictured: Aerial view of tents set up in preparation for the X-rated, do-anything Swingathon.
Pictured: A ‘Relentless Desires’ stall, selling ‘handmade fetish furniture’
Bottom Street in Allington, Lincolnshire. Swingathon guests camp in fields about a mile from the village centre.
Organiser Matthew Cole (pictured with fellow organiser Kerry Voellner) promised this year’s event would be “bigger, bolder and better” than previous ones.
She said: ‘You wouldn’t think we were the swinging type, but who is?
“It’s not just about sex, but about the feeling of freedom and camaraderie. There’s a lot of movement in the place and we meet new people, new friends, all with a common and healthy interest.
‘We live in an often cruel and perverse world, and if crowds of similar people can band together to enjoy a bit of X fun, that has to be okay!
‘I read reports that some local villagers were upset and others amused by what was happening, but there is no intention to alarm or harm anyone.
‘We will meet in a safe and discreet place and hope not to offend anyone.
“All I can say is wow! It’s amazing and very liberating, and I would encourage other people to try it!”
As guests lingered in the combined sunshine and rain on fields where they camped about a mile from the town centre, organiser Matthew Cole said this year’s festival was “bigger, bolder and better” than before.
Mr Cole, in his 30s and organising the event at the same venue for the second year, said: “We’ve put a lot of work into the event and put a lot of time into it.”
“We have sold more tickets than ever before and, with the city council on our side, it couldn’t have gone better than I wanted.”
Three people pose for a selfie at this year’s festival while enjoying the sunshine on Friday.
One attendee was excited for the day ahead this morning and posted a sleepy selfie from his bed.
A reveller shared a photo of his body art, done by rolling around naked and drenched in paint.
Sally, who has vowed to take part again next year if the popular Swingathon is held for a third time, said she and her husband “are quite shy and had no idea what to expect, but it exceeded all our hopes and fantasies.”
He added: ‘Without going into details, we have been getting intimate with couples who think like us.
‘There are so many exhibitionists here and they lead the way!
‘But it’s not just about the physical aspect. It’s a big social event with live music, stalls selling all kinds of products, mainly erotic, and it’s very well organised and you feel safe.
‘There is a lot of buzz around the place and for us it is all new and exciting.
“You see people walking around naked and strutting around, and that’s allowed. We weren’t that brave, but we welcome that liberation in others.
‘As far as we have seen, there are no sexual encounters outdoors, that happens behind closed tents.
‘People outside have the wrong idea that a swingers event is crazy, but it’s not and we are proof of that.’
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