Definitely. The modern white concept of "swinging" has its roots in man owns woman kind of relationships, and there's nothing more demonstrating of that ownership than giving your wife to another man to fuck. Sure, maybe sometimes it was consensual, but what consent can a woman really give when under the duress caused by societal pressures forced on her by patriarchial monogamy? Her powerful and influential husband wants to trade wives with some other powerful and influentual husband, what are the wives supposed to do in that situation? Say no? Could they even say no? What would happen if they DID say no? Swinging in that way is just sexual violence, period. Two men trading their wives like property for their own sexual gratification? That's just sexual slavery with extra steps. It's horrible and it's why I'm so strongly against swinging being related to polyamory in any capacity; our community shouldn't be anywhere near that if we want to claim we're acting ethically.

These days I would say many swingers are doing it more consensually, at least in the kind of communities I tend to encounter swingers. But even assuming the best case scenario of "everyone involved with this is fully consenting to it" it has its roots in ownership, of treating a spouse as property. The concept of "trading" partners still assumes you have something to trade, and you can really only trade something you own or possess. Swingers are looking for that trade, thinking of their partners as if they are property to be freely exchanged with others. It's gross even in the absolute best case scenario. And even then, I've encountered PLENTY of swingers where the husband does all the talking, does all the arranging of things, tries to get between you and his wife (and it's always HIS WIFE), even though they say they're ethical and everything is above board and everyone is fully consenting and actually it was her idea etc etc. If she's so into me why doesn't she tell me herself? It gives me the big ick at its best and at its worst I think it's still just men treating women like property.

I have met a few queer folks who say they're swingers, but then I talk to them and they're really just more like "open" relationships who like group stuff when you get into what they mean by that. It would be great if there was better language to help us separate "people who like doing one on one group stuff with other people in the same room" and "man who is owning a woman and giving her to another man" but... I'm not aware of any yet. And even then most of the queer folks I know who like that sort of arrangement have learned not to use the word swingers because it attracts all the absolutely worst people to them while shoving away all the people they actually want to spend time with.