Magazine issue six 2014 / Topic 21

Consensual low-monogamy: Dining table for more than several, please

• compiled by Amy Moors, William Chopik, Robin Edelstein Terri Conley
• edited because of the Dylan Selterman

Think about it: You will find crushes, you will find sexual ambitions, and frequently you want to act on it-though those individuals crushes and you can goals are not from the the most recent intimate lover. Quite often, we disregard these types of crushes and you will our very own goals go unfulfilled. For the majority of, cheat seems like a choice. Although not, for others, it’s completely okay to follow these crushes and you will goals additional a love. Thanks for visiting the fresh new growing path in order to write the rules of love: consensual non-monogamy.

Consensual Low-monogawhhhaattt?

Each of us desire (and just have) an excellent “one and only”-this package individual that “completes” us in just about any means. Humans tend to be serial monogamists, typing you to sexually and you will romantically personal relationships after various other (Pinkerton Abramson, 1993). Although not, for the consensual non-monogamous matchmaking, someone might have multiple “that and you will onlys,” or at least several sexual lover-and it is not felt cheat. (suite…)

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