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Non-monogamy is like LSD: a highly stigmatized activity that is not for everyone and can be very tricky but brings many people a lot of joy and happiness, and would improve many more people's lives if it wasn't so stigmatized and misunderstood
It's not a topic I talk about a lot but it really does suck how much joy our societal default to monogamy steals from the world.
Monogamy should be one choice among many valid relationship types, but when it's considered a baseline social requirement it fucks a lot of people up
Monogamy should be one choice among many valid relationship types, but when it's considered a baseline social requirement it fucks a lot of people up
If you've ever come close to cheating or actually done so, do yourself and your current/future partners an enormous favour and look up ethical non-monogamy. Monogamy or cheating are not your only two options.
Read "More Than Two" and "Sex At Dawn"
Read "More Than Two" and "Sex At Dawn"
I say this in my capacity as an anthropologist who studies pleasure, stigma and taboos, because the overlap between people who use drugs, queer people, kinky people and non-monogamous people is very high.
More happy, good, stable people than you think are all of these things!
More happy, good, stable people than you think are all of these things!
