Pros do it safer

Comment on Disease risk higher for swingers than prostitutes | Reuters.com at 6/24/2010 3:40PM EST

binethere222 is absolutely right (and hilarious) to point out the PR win for the Amsterdam red light district. Try this study in any other country, and you will not find these results (shame on the headline writer; if one were not educated about the situation in the Netherlands, one could draw the wrong conclusion about swingers, and prostitutes).

Of course if you go where prostitutes have really high rates of STI, and scientists will never get access to the sex workers. But even here in the US where violence against sex workers is relatively moderate, I'd wager that 45+ y.o. swingers have lower rates than rookie year hookers even. One simply does not sell sex illegally if one is long-term minded.

Short of having only one or no partners - it seems legal prostitution is the safest way to plan your sex life.