Swinging in the past

My husband confessed to me that he and his ex wife used to swing. He claims he would never want to do that again in his life, it was very destructive to him. A bit of back ground - he married this woman on the rebound from his first marriage, she was the total opposite of the holy rolling church going first wife. She was a hard partying alcoholic. When I asked how he, a very jealous man who gets upset if a guy looks at me twice, was able to let his wife f*** other men in front of him, he said he didn't really care about her. He THOUGHT he did, he thought this was the best he could hope for and just go with it, but looking back on it now he says he had no feelings of love for her. (And I guess this would prove that point - on their honeymoon she broke her knee on the first ski run they did, so for the next 4 days he left her in the hotel room and drove 45 minutes to the ski slope and ski'd all day. He says she said it was ok because she liked to read books - but come on, I'd be highly upset if my new husband had done that to me!) Anyway, at some point he said he didn't want to swing anymore, and she agreed, then he caught her in bed with one of his friends. He said that and her heavy drinking is what killed the marriage, but they didn't get along, had nothing in common anyway, so the marriage wouldn't have survived no matter what. He had a 2 year relationship with a woman after that divorce, and did not get back into the swinging stuff (which I know is true because I found his old check registers and anything dealing with that whole lifestyle does not show up after he left that wife). He DID jump from woman to woman, and had a bunch of one night stands after that 2 year relationship broke up, but he says they were all monogomous, no cheating or swinging. Basically he was a player during this time. So my question to anyone that used to swing or who does now - was it that easy to stop, or could you stop if your partner wanted you to? Do you think you'd do it again if you got into another relationship with a willing partner? Or was it destructive to you? Is it something that you think you'd want to do with every partner - i.e. you just can't see yourself with one person for an extended amount of years. I'm curious as that is not something I would ever think about doing (I know myself too well, I'd be comparing myself to the women he was with if we swung and it would be a big self esteem killer for me - very destructive). And although I'm 99.9% sure he would never ask if I wanted to do that, there is that little scared .001% voice inside that says "what if....?!"

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