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Multiple Lovers, Without Jealousy
The Atlantic ^ | July 21, 2014 | Olga Kazan

Posted on 07/21/2014 7:17:23 AM PDT by C19fan

When I met Jonica Hunter, Sarah Taub, and Michael Rios on a typical weekday afternoon in their tidy duplex in Northern Virginia, a very small part of me worried they might try to convert me.

All three live there together, but they aren’t roommates—they’re lovers.

Or rather, Jonica and Michael are. And Sarah and Michael are. And so are Sarah and whomever she happens to bring home some weekends. And Michael and whomever he might be courting. They’re polyamorous.

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: polyamory; polygamy
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To: GeronL

Thank you for posting what I was thinking. I was going “can I really call them sluts on FR???” You showed me that I could and I will. SLUTS!!!!


41 posted on 07/21/2014 8:16:28 AM PDT by Shimmer1 (If chocolate fudge cake could sing, it would sound like Barry White.)
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To: elcid1970
At least in this scenario for any kids produced, you know the father is one of the two, and a DNA test can prove which.

Those kids produced from artificial insemination will never know who the "bull" was, and never have access to half of their genealogy.

42 posted on 07/21/2014 8:18:27 AM PDT by Mogger (Independence, better fuel economy and performance with American made synthetic oil.)
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To: C19fan

Give them time. They will gain political power and get special priviliges for themselves.


43 posted on 07/21/2014 8:18:36 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Shimmer1

It was either that or I would make up a word. Maybe SMUTS/SMUTTS


44 posted on 07/21/2014 8:20:03 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: bboop
"The Atlantic must be desperate for copy."

They used to be OK for a liberal rag, but the crap they publish now is all feminism, "alternative" lifestyles, etc., etc. It's just intellectually bankrupt and creepy -- and, yes, desperate.

45 posted on 07/21/2014 8:22:07 AM PDT by jumpingcholla34 (.)
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To: C19fan

Multiple lovers without jealousy? Lady, make a note of this: At least one of them is lying.


46 posted on 07/21/2014 8:24:16 AM PDT by RichInOC (Unnngh!)
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To: Thorliveshere

“Man, that’s just...gross. I couldn’t imagine “sharing” a woman with another guy. Makes me sick.”

Me too. Some things aren’t meant to be shared, especially one’s spouse.


47 posted on 07/21/2014 8:25:57 AM PDT by MNGal
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To: Mogger

“....and never have access to half of their genealogy.”

Isn’t that the case for any adopted child? Even if the birth mother’s identity is eventually known, the sperm donor usually never is.

Saw a WW1 movie produced in France while the war was still on. A French soldier’s wife is raped by the Germans while he is at the front. She gives birth to a girl & when the poilu comes home on leave, he wants to kill the child because she is both the product of rape and half German.

The mother protects the girl and says, “I will raise her to be French”. Later the husband is killed in action & she marries a man who is more understanding.

I’m not a big fan of bloodlines. We are what we make of ourselves. Yes, it sometimes helps to “choose one’s ancestors wisely”.


48 posted on 07/21/2014 8:34:19 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: C19fan

My wife and I have always had an understanding that has worked for over 25 years of marriage.

I don’t screw around with other women and she doesn’t cut off my privates while I sleep.

As Dick Armey said during the Clinton/ Lewinsky scandal, when asked what he would do if he were in Clinton’s position, “I would be lying in a pool of my own blood, hearing my wife standing over me saying, ‘How do I reload this damn thing?’”


49 posted on 07/21/2014 8:45:36 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continue)
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To: dragonblustar

I went through most of the long article. Seems like the author was on the defense the whole time and the conclusion...THEY ALL FEEL JEALOUSY, then they use cognitive therapy to come to a self-accepted-truth (not an absolute truth) and believe that to calm themselves.

Evolutionists always miss the mark. The Creator made us in His image. We really all want to live with one person for our whole lives and die together unless Satan has perverted us.


50 posted on 07/21/2014 8:48:54 AM PDT by huldah1776
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To: dragonblustar
They can repeat that lie a million times but it still won't be true.

Sure it is true. When you view a lover with the same emotional attachment and commitment as a blow up doll, a vibrator or a towel, what is there to get jealous about? If he/she/it leaves then you can always find a new receptacle.

51 posted on 07/21/2014 8:50:23 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continue)
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To: C19fan

My, how enlightened these people are! My decrepit, ossified values keep me in a monogamous relationship with the woman I love. I must be a total Neanderthal to believe in something so clearly obsolete.

Geez, I wish I could embrace whatever new perversion trickles down the sewer this week. Think how liberating it would be!


52 posted on 07/21/2014 8:53:21 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: C19fan

In the old days we just called them sluts. :-)


53 posted on 07/21/2014 9:23:02 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: C19fan

Oh poppycock!

I read the article- it isn’t polyandry, it’s a guy who has figured out how to have two women at the same time. The girls are so brainwashed/stupid/self-respect- less they go along with it for some reason.

I’ll bet big money they came out of homes with absent fathers. And the guy is just using them. There’s no jealousy because there is no love- they’re all too self-absorbed to love anyone but themselves.


54 posted on 07/21/2014 9:32:34 AM PDT by Red Boots
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To: Red Boots

Pretty much everyone in Hollywood lives this way. Even the “Married” ones.


55 posted on 07/21/2014 9:34:26 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Bubba_Leroy
Sure it is true. When you view a lover with the same emotional attachment and commitment as a blow up doll, a vibrator or a towel, what is there to get jealous about? If he/she/it leaves then you can always find a new receptacle.

that may be true for men but women will always have a jealous streak in them.

56 posted on 07/21/2014 10:04:05 AM PDT by dragonblustar ( Psalm 103, Psalm 37:7, Ephesians 6:12)
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To: Paine in the Neck

” Or rather, Jonica and Michael are. And Sarah and Michael are. And so are Sarah and whomever she happens to bring home some weekends. And Michael and whomever he might be courting. They’re polyamorous.”

I’m trying to imagine what their marriage vows look like...


57 posted on 07/21/2014 10:12:50 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: dragonblustar
Multiple Lovers, Without Jealousy,

They can repeat that lie a million times but it still won't be true.

If you Google a bit you can find pictures of these freaks. I think in this limited case, lack of jealousy is a distinct possibility.

58 posted on 07/21/2014 10:15:15 AM PDT by KevinB (Barack Obama: Our first black, gay, Kenyan, Muslim president!)
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To: Thorliveshere; C19fan

I suppose I should be happy there are no pics at link.


59 posted on 07/21/2014 1:42:53 PM PDT by ro_dreaming (Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. ItÂ’s been found hard and not tried')
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