Polyamory 101
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The document discusses polyamory, or having multiple committed loving relationships. It defines different types of non-monogamous relationships and traces the origins of polyamory to historical groups that practiced group marriage. Research findings about modern polyamorous individuals show they are highly educated and white, and practice various configurations of relationships involving primary and secondary partners. Cultural challenges and relationship negotiations in polyamory are also examined.
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Polyamory 101
- 1. Polyamory 101 Leanna Wolfe, Ph.D.
- 24. Regarding one’s partner as a favorite lover largely parallels feeling like one is one’s partner’s favorite lover.
- 25. Compersion
Editor's Notes
- No scientific studies (re: the swinger studies of the 70s) Loving More’s survey first attempt.
- 74.1% of females bisexual 62.5% of males heterosexual
- Poly females most likely to consider themselves Kinsey twos while poly males mostly likely to see themselves as Kinsey ones. Meanwhile, swinger males are most likely to claim they are zeros and swinger women equally distribute between ones and twos.
- Seeking the approval by one’s partner for sexually engaging a new lover is often considered proper etiquette at swing parties and thus was selected by 64.4% of the swingers . In that poly people may function more like free agents in their social-sexual lives, with 22.5% of males and 14.8% of females reporting having sexual encounters without their partner’s knowledge, partner approval was only expected by 35.7% of the poly men and 58.4% of the women. This rather dramatic discrepancy between males and females may again be indicative of women’s higher verbal skills in regards to intimate communication. For some poly people, approving of a partner’s new lover might have huge implications in terms of expanding one’s family circle. If a new lover has had little exposure to the culture of polyamory, appears to be emotionally demanding and/or is very sexually attractive, red flags may go up.
- Secondaries involved with primaries...
- It would be more in the realm of people who have clandestine affairs for a spouse to believe that their partner very much loves them while they are actually completely smitten with someone else.