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(Slippery Slope Watch): Is polyamory the next sexual revolution?
Newsweek ^ | Jessica Bennett | Jessica Bennett

Posted on 07/29/2009 4:05:56 PM PDT by Publius804

Only You. And You. And You.

Polyamory—relationships with multiple, mutually consenting partners—has a coming-out party.

Terisa Greenan and her boyfriend, Matt, are enjoying a rare day of Seattle sun, sharing a beet carpaccio on the patio of a local restaurant. Matt holds Terisa's hand, as his 6-year-old son squeezes in between the couple to give Terisa a kiss. His mother, Vera, looks over and smiles; she's there with her boyfriend, Larry. Suddenly it starts to rain, and the group must move inside. In the process, they rearrange themselves: Matt's hand touches Vera's leg. Terisa gives Larry a kiss. The child, seemingly unconcerned, puts his arms around his mother and digs into his meal.

Terisa and Matt and Vera and Larry—along with Scott, who's also at this dinner—are not swingers, per se; they aren't pursuing casual sex. Nor are they polygamists of the sort portrayed on HBO's Big Love; they aren't religious, and they don't have multiple wives. But they do believe in "ethical nonmonogamy," or engaging in loving, intimate relationships with more than one person—based upon the knowledge and consent of everyone involved. They are polyamorous, to use the term of art applied to multiple-partner families like theirs, and they wouldn't want to live any other way.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: episcopalchurch; episcopalians; gaymarriage; polyamory; romney
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1 posted on 07/29/2009 4:05:56 PM PDT by Publius804
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Yes and Bestiality and Pedophilia if the Obamunists have their way. Oh I almost forgot Necrophelia.


2 posted on 07/29/2009 4:08:30 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (!!)
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To: Publius804

No


3 posted on 07/29/2009 4:08:52 PM PDT by Shanty Shaker
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To: Publius804

His mother,,,, *creepy*


4 posted on 07/29/2009 4:09:25 PM PDT by Mmogamer (<This space for lease>)
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That poor kid. He is going to grow up to be a basket case.


5 posted on 07/29/2009 4:10:28 PM PDT by Marie2 (The second mouse gets the cheese.)
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To: Publius804

And their dog and the sheep are pouting over in the corner because they aren’t included.


6 posted on 07/29/2009 4:10:31 PM PDT by taillightchaser (When a democrat says "The American people" you know the next words out of his mouth will be lies.)
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To: Publius804

I personally don’t care what people do behind closed doors (consenting adults and all that) That is their business. I am tired of their personal business infringing on my beliefs left and right in the “public domain”.


7 posted on 07/29/2009 4:10:46 PM PDT by Michael Barnes (When, America?)
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To: Publius804

“ethical nonmonogamy,” an oxymoron if I’ve ever heard one.


8 posted on 07/29/2009 4:11:02 PM PDT by Califreak (My word calibrator's in the shop)
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‘ethical non-morality’???

*sigh*

Newsweek is really scrapping the bottom of the barrel these days, aren’t they. I guess that’s all there is left to do when your readers are all leftists and marxists. It’s the stuff that interests them.


9 posted on 07/29/2009 4:14:16 PM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: Publius804

Why do these people think we care what they do in their spare time?


10 posted on 07/29/2009 4:15:13 PM PDT by Rodebrecht (If everybody just left everybody else alone, everybody would be a lot happier.)
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This is the problem with granting homosexual “rights” in the first place. No pun intended, but once you gave them an inch, they wanted a mile. That opened the door (again, NPI) but then came the transgender creeps, now the poly folks, then the bigamists, group marriage, child marriage, et al creeps.

This country should’ve learned to say NO, NO, NO, and NO along time ago.


11 posted on 07/29/2009 4:15:35 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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Poly- relationships are next - then sexual relations with animals is my bet - unless something even more twisted can be found


12 posted on 07/29/2009 4:16:15 PM PDT by SoftballMominVA
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To: Publius804

Otherwise know as slutting around.


13 posted on 07/29/2009 4:17:06 PM PDT by US Navy Vet
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To: Publius804

Bill O’Reily talked about this the other night; Newsweek talking about the same thing. Irony?


14 posted on 07/29/2009 4:18:37 PM PDT by cranked
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‘Ethical nonmonogamy.’

Whatever. One of ‘em will get jealous or a disease and that’ll be the end of that.


15 posted on 07/29/2009 4:19:50 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: SoftballMominVA

Yes, and the left will say we are intolerant when we say those things are wrong too.

They make me sick.


16 posted on 07/29/2009 4:21:01 PM PDT by Califreak (My word calibrator's in the shop)
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To: Publius804

Wow, Newsweek has dropped to Obama-like depths.

It’s the GM of mags... and will suffer the same ultimate fate.

Hey Newsweek “writers”, better start searching for a job in the Obamaloon administration asap.


17 posted on 07/29/2009 4:22:51 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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Weren't these just called communes in the 60's?

My favorite part of the article:

Terisa, 41, is at the center of this particular polyamorous cluster. A filmmaker and actress, she is well-spoken, slender and attractive, with dark, shoulder-length hair, porcelain skin—and a powerful need for attention.

I guess if you need several live-in boyfriends, "having a powerful need for attention" is an understatement.

18 posted on 07/29/2009 4:23:12 PM PDT by keepitreal (Obama brings change: an international crisis (terrorism) within 6 months)
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To: Publius804

While I personally don’t agree with the practice It’s not up to me to impose my personal moral code on consenting adults.

We may be aware that their choices aren’t the best, smartest, or morally healthiest, but really it’s not up to us to judge them. They will have a higher power to answer to some day.


19 posted on 07/29/2009 4:24:04 PM PDT by AussieJoe
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I am told by reliable sources (my wife), that Oprah has been pushing this crap for years on her show. It's surprising it's not bigger already.

If two men can get married, why not two men and a woman? And, what about the family dog? Fido needs love too. Don't they all have a right to pursue happiness? (is the sarcasm tag really necessary here?)

20 posted on 07/29/2009 4:24:10 PM PDT by OldDeckHand (No Socialized Medicine, No Way, No How, No Time)
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