When it comes to swinging, there are usually two types of house parties; the private ones and the paid ones. The paid ones are often on-site areas for meet and greet groups or sources of income for the sponsors. If you choose to attend those parties, know that your opportunities for involvement are minimal if you do not know anyone else there or if you are not extremely gregarious. The odds of having a really good time are no better than attending an on-premise swing club; in fact they are probably worse.
My experience has been that many who attend such parties without benefit of having friends there, either end up playing alone or just being voyeurs, which mainly is a waste of money, unless you really are a voyeur, and don't mind paying to watch.
The private house party has the potential for having more fun and I will suggest ways for making that type of party a successful event. I have been to many that really never got off because of lack of foresight of the hosts. In this offering, I will suggest a list of things to address in an effort to increase the possibility that you and your guests will have a good party.
PRE-ARRIVAL PROTOCOL
First as host you must decide on the maximum number of people that you intend to invite. If your home is not a mega mansion and is about the size of an average four bedroom house, limit your invitees to no more than five or six couples. Ten to twelve people is about the maximum that such a house can hold comfortably and allow the hosts to keep tabs on what is going on as well as trying to ensure that everyone gets involved and has a good time.
Second, as you choose your guests, make sure that you let all of them know the other guests who will be invited. Suggest that they pull up the profiles of all of the other guests on any sites that you know them to be on and take a look before they accept your invitation. As a host, just because you have no problem swinging with African descended, Asian, East Indian, Hispanic or even physically disabled individuals does not mean that other people with whom you swing, feel the same way. It might be that they have no problem swinging with you but they do with individuals from other groups, so they should know that before they accept your invitation. Chemistry is extremely important and this could ruin your party.