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Polyamory

Defining Polyamory by my terms – by emanix

This is a great read about what polyamory means to Maxine, and I identify with much of it myself. I highly recommend reading the whole post. Here’s an excerpt of it to tickle your interest: For me, being ‘poly’ is tied to my definition of what Love is. I believe that if you love someone, [...]

Polyamory, swinging, kink and employment

Recently a Twitter contact and fellow sex blogger was fired from her job for her private life and as she puts it, “Clark Kent” identity on the web. She blogged about her open relationship and her escapades using the nom de plume: “The Beautiful Kind”. It appears her employer, a non-profit, was running Google searches [...]

First Time For Everything: A Polyamorous Relationship

This is a repost of an article in The Frisky, written by Anya James from about a year ago or so, but an excellent article about a polyamorous triad and how it’s worked for them. I really didn’t know what polyamory was until I fell into it at 27. I was arguing one day with [...]

More on compersion

I came across this passage from the Bhagavad Gita today, and of course it is translated slightly differently depending on who’s translating it, but I felt this translation from Eknath Easwaran was related in the most plain of English: When a person responds to the joys and sorrows of others as if they were his [...]

Honest rates of relationship failures

How can anyone really hold up monogamous, one man one woman relationships as the benchmark by which to measure alternative relationships, like polyamory, swingers, other styles of open relationships and same-sex relationships?