Polyamory is not all sunshine, rainbows, and swinging. When I was in high school, my classmates often made fun of me because I had a “harem” of guys. I casually dated and was intimate with about two ...

When mainstream media outlets address polyamory, they often focus intently on sexuality and tend to use other, less sexy parts of poly life to set the stage for the main event. In my research, I have ...

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Polyamory is diverse in three ways. First, as an element of social diversity, polys join the ever-increasing cadre of what used to be called alternative families but are now rapidly becoming the norm.

Thanks to many cultural shifts and an increase in more progressive worldviews over the past few decades, heteronormative monogamy isn’t necessarily the standard anymore when it comes to relationships.