The lifestyle

You ever wonder how the swinger community got the rights to claim 'the lifestyle' as their own adjective? Seems a bit unfair to me. There are several types of living that certainly constitute a lifestyle, and yet if someone says anything about 'the lifestyle', it is assumed that they are talking about swinging. This is not a huge deal in everyday life for me, but if I were Amish, I would be pissed. To me, the Amish certainly commit to a larger change in actual way of life than swingers do. And yet you don't hear a whole lot of people saying, "hey, I noticed Jebediah's family bought a new car, and seem to be straying from the lifestyle".