Archive for 'Polyamory Politics'

Swinging and Polyamory: The Great Divide?

By Maureen Marovitch
Reprinted from Loving More Issue #33, Winter 2005.

I’m going to say something that’s going to get me into water hotter than those at the Harbin Hot Springs.

Swingers and polyamorists have a lot in common.

I can hear the howls already. How ridiculous! Polyamory is all about relationships, sharing lives together, creating more love. Swinging is all about ‘recreational sex’, instant gratification, lust without love.

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It’s so comforting to have tidy ...

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Categories: Loving More Magazine, Polyamory, Polyamory Articles, Polyamory Events, Polyamory Politics, Recomended Reading, Relationships, Swinging

Tags: open relationships, Polyamory, Relationships, Swinging

Polyamory as a More Peaceful Way of Loving

By Mystic Life

I recall watching “The Nature of Sex” on PBS years ago, and feeling fascinated by the segment on bonobos. Since then I have learned much more about this gentle primate, and like many other polyamorous people, have come to see them as role models because they have so much to teach us about peace. Bonobos, importantly, are the only nonviolent primate.

Because we are socialized to ...

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MAR

Categories: Polyamory, Polyamory Articles, Polyamory Politics

Tags: polyamory poly polyamorous peace peaceful non-violent nonviolent love loving

My Mom Was a Hippie . . . UPDATED

by Valerie White

One of my favorite songs is Bob Blue’s “My Mom Was a Hippie”, in which a young boy bemoans his parents’ crunchy-granola values. They care more about protesting war than they care about getting a half-decent car. His friends’ parents live more traditional lives, while his are “counter-culture”, and he doesn’t even know what that means. He wishes racism, pollution, sexism and nuclear bombs would just go away so his parents could be ordinary.

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Categories: Poly Parenting, Polyamory Articles, Polyamory Politics