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Anger Management
I was struck by many things in the “Godless Perverts” panel video Shaun posted yesterday, but one thing in particular that I’ve been meaning to write more about was the idea of the narrative of...
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Polyamory and being Honesty-Oriented
Yesterday, Alex wrote a post about polyamory and orientation. The issue here is whether we can think about polyamory as an orientation, sort of like how we think of homosexuality, heterosexuality, or...
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Is polyamory better for humanity? Let’s find out!
I am well aware that there are people within the polyamory world for whom the idea that polyamory is better than monogamy is quite annoying. To say that polyamory is somehow objectively better, from...
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The Bachelorette and Polyamory? (via Respectful Atheist)
As I have said, I read a bunch of blogs. Many of them are related to polyamory, but most are atheist-oriented. And while some have some overlap, most are largely unaware or at least unconcerned with...
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Because I’m polyamorous…
Ian Cromwell has been running a series of essays submitted to him entitled “Because I’m an atheist…” and I have been reading them for a while. Today, my answer went up, which caused me to think about...
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Atonement and Monogamy as Impossible Ideals
As a student of anthropology, I think a lot about cultural constructs which permeate our lives, most of which are pretty invisible to us most of the time. From an early age I was fascinated with the...
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That moment when you realize that you are really into that single but...
So, you know that trope about the guy who is into the straight guy (or girl who is into the straight girl)? Yeah…. So, people who are not really familiar or comfortable with polyamory, or who...
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Naked Skepticism and the new polynormativity
One of my motivations for writing this blog is a general sense that there is an important issue which needs to be addressed by, well, all of us. Our culture does not have a healthy view about sex and...
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Relationship Agnosticism: process over teleology
In conversations with people over the years, I have been asked, in a myriad of ways, if I think that polyamory is better than monoamory. Do I think that being polyamorous is better (necessarily or...
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What has contentedness with monogamy got to do with polyamory?
I’m happy with my relationships. Not directly related to this, however, is the fact that I’m not looking to meet anyone right now. That is, I’m not actively seeking new partners right now, but its...
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Queer Youth Radio on Polyamory
I ran into this today: I saw it on a blog called Youth Media for Building Healthy Commnities, which I just discovered today. It’s a fairly good, and short introduction to polyamory intended for young...
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Writers Block
So, in an attempt to not have PolySkeptic disappear into complete (rather than relative) obscurity, I’m deciding to write about the fact that I have been unsure what to write recently. I feel like I...
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Sin responsibly
You know how people, after reaching a rock bottom point in their lives, often find religion? You know, the old redemption and salvation story. They have had evil done to them, did evil themselves, but...
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Monogamy and meeting someone new
Way back in the 20th century I discovered polyamory while in college. First, there was Erin. We met early in our freshman year, had instant chemistry, but she had a boyfriend. But our intense...
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Just a Friday morning
This morning was a little different than most. But in another way, it was not all that strange, for this house. Last night, Jess and I had a date which involved her coming over here after work and...
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When polyamory isn’t an option, is cheating an option?
Nearly a year ago, Wes wrote this post on the blog about whether it is permissible, morally, to accept an offer of sex from someone in a monogamous relationship. I was not in agreement with him when I...
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Why knot – Breaking the Silence of Monogamy (upcoming documentary)
I was contacted by Dhruv Dhawan from Film-Real about a documentary entitled Why knot, which has a page at indiegogo, where they are trying to raise funds to complete the project. As the indiegogo page...
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Regression towards the mean (a rant)
All cultures have traditions, values, means of communication, etc. All of these, and more, help define meaning and appropriate behavior for the group of people that interact with that culture. It...
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Description v. Prescription in Polyamory
In the past, I’ve talked about whether monoamory or polyamory is better, and concluded, essentially, that so long as we are aware of either possibility and we pursue our desires authentically, I’m not...
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Trying it
My partner just recently went through a breakup with a guy she’d been seeing recently. He was new to polyamory, and from what I could tell, he was not handling the newfound relationship territory well....
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