Around one thousand people have descended on a sleepy Lincolnshire village for Britain’s biggest swingers festival.
The four-day sex and fetish event – called Swingathon – kicked off on Thursday in Allington, near Grantham, Lincolnshire.
This year’s festival is the biggest yet, with one thousand guests – a 50 per cent increase on last year – paying £265 to experience activities including “play tents”, pole dancing, hot tubs, foam parties and “mobile dungeons”.
In previous years, disgruntled residents have complained to police about “screaming and moaning” coming from the site.
One resident said the noises were “not the sounds you want to hear when you’re trying to sleep”.
The festival will see a number of bands performing, alongside DJs, dancers and comedy acts. Other entertainment includes a competition based on the Channel 4 show Naked Attraction, drag and burlesque acts as well as massages.
‘Social and safe space’
Kerry Voellner, Swingathon’s organiser, said: “The event offers a very social and safe space for people from different lifestyles to meet new people.”
The festival will run side by side with an event called FetFest, which Ms Voellner described as for “modern people who are into fetishes”.
“We are just a normal festival for people with alternative lifestyles,” she said.