Wow, this is the second poly site I found here within minutes... anyway I asked a question on the other poly site that I'm just curious about and I'll go ahead and re-post here. sorry about the cross-posting:

I got a little lost and ended up in this tribe (easily disoriented--up all night). So then I got to thinking, "what's the difference between poly and swinging?" Does swinging just refer to older terminology for the same thing? So is it perhaps the progenitor to poly; or are they two separate things entirely? Poly seems a bit more politicized but is there more to it?