Polyamory: The Next Sexual Revolution?
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obi-nine shinobi 1 year ago
obi-nine shinobi 1 year ago Polyamory—relationships with multiple, mutually consenting partners—has a coming-out party.
Newsweek article and video.
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The human monkey is keyed for extinction
The scenario looks like a bad sociology project. The human hamster will think any living arrangement is acceptable as long as they are getting laid. This is not getting laid, this is getting screwed.
How do you know? Have you
How do you know? Have you tried it?
oh yeah
it certainly is the next sexual revolution and its kickin into high gear! oh yeah!
THE BOTTOM LINE: quality has
THE BOTTOM LINE: quality has always been achieved at the expense of quantity, because qantity delutes and inflates the quality.
I'm cool with it, but i wouldn't be happy with it in the long run.
As far as I am concerned it is not Love as I like to believe it, that's all.
It takes a very special genius of faith and devotion, and faith and devotion indeed have their own genius, to say to another, "I want to love you, in sickness and in health, though thick and thin and through the mundane times, forever, until the end of days! I'm asking you to be mine." It's more personal that way. And of course it is idealistic, and improbably, however, what. THE BOTTOM LINE: quality has always been achieved at the expense of quantity. But the truth is that most people neither have the taste nor the attention span to appreciate serious quality, and therefore polygamy is probably more suitable.
Polyamory
I was in an open-relationship with a man (Man A), who was also in open relationship with another woman. Me and the other girl knew about eachother and were strangely non-jealous and we both chatted every now and again. The 'affair' ended when I met someone I wanted to be exclusive with.
During the time I was seeing Man A, we spent good amount of time together (not all physical) and the whole thing was very respectful. There was no game-playing and complete honesty. We all knew where we stood, and so no one was left short and we all had our own personal time away from the 'relationship'. It was all very well balanced, and it did feel very natural at the time. The success of it may well have been due to the nature of all of us, and maybe in a different country or civilisation it could have worked on a more permanant basis. But that is just speculation, or maybe on some level, a different type of love was present.
I believe that when you are in love with someone, it is difficult to share, maybe it's people's Egos and insecurities that won't let him do so. Obviously a conventional type of partnership has the illusion of safety, and thus more worthy of our investment of time and devotion.
I think we are definitely in the Era of 'Serial Monogamy'. Doesn't stop me wanting to be with my current partner for the 'foreseeable future' though.
Peace.