HUNDREDS of swingers have descended on a sleepy Worcestershire village for Europe's biggest sex festival.

Festival-goers have splashed out up to £415 for a three-day pass to Swingfields, which this year is being held on farmland near the hamlet of Upper Welland, two miles from Malvern.

8 Swingfields Festival is taking place this year in the Worcestershire countryside, near Malvern Credit: SWNS:South West News Service

8 Swingfields is Europe's biggest sex festival and keeps its location a secret until 48 hours before Credit: SWNS:South West News Service

Swingfields festival started six years ago and has been running annually since. It was also held in Malvern last summer.

When they arrive revellers are handed a colour-coded wrist band, showing other guests what they are looking for.

The Swingfields website has a glossary of terms for swingers including "hot wife", "full swap" and "soft swap".

'Hot wives' are wives who enjoy casual sex with other men, 'bulls' are well-endowed men – married or single - looking for sex, while 'unicorns' are so-called because they are single women and so rare in the swinging scene that few people have ever seen one.

A 'full swap' is where a couple swap partners for sex, while a 'soft swap' is where a husband or wife has oral sex with someone else's partner.

Meanwhile 'same room' is where couples have sex in front of each other.

Guests are encouraged to be 'fun and social' and told: "If you sit and wait then little will happen".

Around 700 festival-goers are expected to attend the sex festival.

They are allowed to "go natural" but are encouraged to remain covered from the waist down in the festival's main area "out of respect for catering staff".

Revellers not wanting to rough it this year can choose glamping options including bell tents kitted out with proper beds and party tents that sleep up to 12 people.

They are not young people. They are middle aged with big tummies. It is slightly dreadful Local resident Marjorie Stapleton

Reaction from local residents has been mixed.

Marjorie Stapleton, 87, who lives close to the festival site, told the Daily Mail: "It's not quite Malvern, is it?

"Are we entirely comfortable with our burgeoning reputation as host to these commercialised, lewd and sleazy events in our green and pleasant countryside?"

The pensioner added: "It's unappealing. They are not young people. They are middle aged with big tummies. It is slightly dreadful. And there is something a bit frightening about it. It is the covert way they go about it. I don't like the secrecy."

Len Stephens, 86, said: "I don't think it should be here, really. Does Malvern need this? If you allow it once a year it could escalate and come again."

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However organisers insisted it was a safe and private event.

Deb Harrison said: "It is not what people think it is. We have moved on from keys in a bowl. It's about socialising. It's about like-minded people getting together. If you don't have chemistry, or a connection, nothing is going to happen.

"It's not secretive. We try our best to block everything out to protect the public and our customers. There is nothing anyone can see that would upset or hurt him".

8 Swingfields, which describes itself as the UK's only swingers' festival, has set up on farmland near the hamlet of Upper Welland Credit: SWNS:South West News Service

8 Organisers insisted the festival was a safe and private event Credit: SWNS:South West News Service

8 Pictures from last year's event showed four poster beds ready for raunchy revellers to romp in front of crowds Credit: SWNS:South West News Service

8 Aerial shots from last year's event showed a man being spanked as he was locked up in the stocks Credit: SWNS:South West News Service

8 Seats are set up around the paddling pools at last year's festival so crowds could watch fellow revellers make a splash Credit: SWNS:South West News Service

8 One of the mysterious marquees at last year's event was called the 'Adventure Tent' Credit: SWNS:South West News Service

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