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Can A Child Have More Than Two Parents?
A California state bill would allow courts to legally declare a child has more than two parents. While gay marriage is in limbo in California, unconventional families in the nation’s most populous...
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Bisexual, Pansexual, Born or Made?
A survivor of childhood sexual abuse knows bisexuality is real, but wonders if he was born this way or made. Editor’s note: This post contains descriptions of childhood sexual abuse. I identify as a...
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Indecisive, Slutty, and Closeted: Bisexual Men in 3 Stereotypes
Tobias is everything you expect bi men to be, and then some. It hit me when I was planning out an article about how not all bi men are indecisive, slutty, and suckers for the sweet allure of...
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Open Thread: Is Jealousy Okay in a Relationship?
In the BeastTV clip below, Christopher Ryan explores the idea of what creates jealousy in relationships. He has some interesting theories, perhaps central being that in our society we live in the...
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Mandatory Monogamy Doesn’t Work Either
Jasmine Peterson was polyamorous, her husband wasn’t… guess which one cheated. It has been nearly a year since I had an epiphany and came to the realization that I am, by nature, polyamorous—six...
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What Is Polyamory?
A brief guide to the most common questions about polyamory and how it works. Like a lot of polyamorous people, I have to answer the same questions repeatedly from folks who don’t yet understand how...
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Unmarried and Unequal
Why The Alternatives to Marriage Project fights for unmarried equality. Same-sex marriage took center stage in this year’s election. While we believe that anyone who wants to marry should have that...
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Should I Let My Wife Hook Up With Another Guy?
A man asks Eli and Josie for advice about his wife’s unexpected fantasy. Dear Sexes: My wife wants to give a blow-job to a stranger. Should I let her? She Said: First, let’s clear up some language. I...
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I Had an Affair with a Married Man (and I Don’t Regret It)
Sandra Cliff thought of their affair as “big love and big lies,” but her old lover seems to make his open marriage work—only with more orgasms. I was 29; he was 43. I was a lowly direct report; he was...
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Dear John: Dad Wants to GPS-Stalk His Teen Daughter
Stalker dad, a troubled marriage considers swinging, and an old friend of a spouse reappears, to the letter writer’s dismay. This article originally appeared on GoLocalProv.com. What’s your problem?...
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Monogamish: Two Is Company, But Is Three Really a Crowd?
Zach Stafford digs up some surprising figures about modern relationships, and asks: is it worth pretending to be monogamous when you’re not? Most days when I think about dating and relationships,...
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Five Things You Might Not Know About Polyamory
Poly educator Deborah Anapol addresses some common misconceptions about the polyamorous lifestyle. Thirty years ago there was plenty I needed to know about polyamory, but not so many places to learn...
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5 Guys Talking: The Second Half of Manhood
What happens when you get five guys talking about ‘the perfect relationship’? Managing Editor Justin Cascio, Editor in Chief Noah Brand, and GMP community members Mark Sherman and Kenny Bodanis...
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The Dichotomies of Open Relationships
Natalie Vartanian talks about how to explore beyond monogamy. Even in the year 2013, we continue to look at monogamy (closed relationships) as the only way to be in relationship (or the right way). We...
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I Dare You to Define Normal: The Parenting Times, They Are a-Changin’
JJ Vincent looks at families these days, and all he sees are totally new kinds of normal. — This all started when my partner J and I and our Miss M. started talking about hypothetical children. If she...
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Poly Is. Poly Isn’t. A Basic User’s Guide, Part 1
This is a poly trio. JJ Vincent would like people to know what polyamory is, but more importantly, what it isn’t. Not all poly relationships are the same. Not all poly people are the same. That’s no...
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Living in Monogamish County
N Likes explains how non-monogamy saved his marriage —- I love my wife. Fourteen years in, our marriage is stronger, closer, more fulfilling and more sexually satisfying than it’s ever been. We have a...
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Poly Is. Poly Isn’t. A Basic User’s Guide, Part 2
This is a poly trio. JJ Vincent would like people to know more about what polyamory is, but more importantly, what it isn’t. In A Basic User’s Guide, Part 1, I talked about how poly relationships are...
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How to Get Everything You Want from Casual Sex (without Hurting People)
Robin Juliet explains how to have a healthy and honest NSA relationship without guilt or heartbreak —- “That’s exactly what I want.” Emails like this from complete strangers pour in like a torrent...
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The Frowns and the Fury: Monogamy, Gay Marriage and the Moral High Ground
On the subject of the sanctity of marriage, judge not lest ye be a GOP Congressman. Back in 2004, just after San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom’s controversial move issuing same-sex marriage licenses, I...
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