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Polygamy is the key to a long life - being-human - 19 August 2008 - New Scientist
Public Note added by Shal on 08/21/2008 via emailWant to live a little longer? Get a second wife. New research suggests that men from polygamous cultures outlive those from monogamous ones. After accounting for socioeconomic differences, men aged over 60 from 140 countries that practice polygamy to varying degrees lived on average 12% longer ...
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Four Steps To Opening A Marriage
Public Bookmark added by Irma Vermaat on 08/17/2008Being in a successful open marriage is about four things: 1) finding the support you need, both within your marriage and from the people around you; 2) accepting that jealousy is a manufactured emotion that, with enough conscious effort, you can learn to let go of; 3) treating an open marriage ...
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Suzanne Portnoy: Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Jefferson: A Sex Blogger Fights for Custody of his Kids
Public Bookmark added by Irma Vermaat on 08/17/2008"Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." The phrase came to me this morning while musing over the predicament of my friend, the sex blogger Jefferson. Because his ex-wife recently discovered he is bisexual, he is now fighting for custody of his kids. It's an ironic twist that the man who ...
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The Daily Californian - Sharing the Wealth
Public Bookmark added by Irma Vermaat on 08/17/2008I'm told that if something seems too good to be true, it probably is. That's likely why I've never given polyamory a second thought. Openly dating two (or more) people without drama or moral conundrums sounds great, but there's got to be a catch, right? Further research, however, indicates that ...
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Practical Polyamory: John Edwards, Cheating and the Ethics of Polyamory
Public Bookmark added by Irma Vermaat on 08/17/2008Certainly our society's fetish for monolithic, life long monogamy as the be-all and end-all of relationships creates fertile ground for cheating. This doesn't let the cheater off the ethical hook, but it does go a long way toward explaining why people in western society - and especially in the ...
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More Partners, Not More Love
Comment added by Daniel Feldman on 05/21/2008I agree with your reasoning, Irma. There are rather large ethical boundaries in which reasonable people can disagree on right and wrong. To assume some absolute right and wrong is rather narrowminded. As a disclaimer I was unable to locate the original posting which prompted Ms. Okamoto's ... -
More Partners, Not More Love
Comment added by Irma Vermaat on 05/21/2008"Conclusion: If it seems too hard to do the right thing, do the wrong thing, advertise it, create support groups to help others take the same road and try to make it an acceptable lifestyle " Who is to decide what is the right thing and what is the wrong thing, eh? I'm not saying polyamory is ... -
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FT.com / Columnists / Lucy Kellaway - Marriage demands due diligence
Comment added by Daniel Feldman on 05/20/2008I realize that this article does not cover polyamory per se. However, I find the issues discussed relevant to all sorts of intimate relationships. The dispassionate unromantic nature of the argument while potentially unappealing is nonetheless interesting. -
Personal Thoughts On Fair and Equal
Comment added by Charles Blake on 05/11/2008Hi Irma: I don't know if my feelings about your article should be shared in this forum or not. I am not involved in a polyamorous relationship. Like most non-gay men I've fantasied about having a "harem". But that is far from the fair and equal polyamorous relationships you have in mind. My ...
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