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Rethinking monogamy today
CNN ^ | April 12, 2017 | Ian Kerner

Posted on 04/13/2017 8:11:02 AM PDT by walford

"Most people enter their first relationships with the traditional idea of sexual exclusivity. It's just the way we're socialized in our culture."

For some couples, non-exclusivity might take the form of attending "play parties" together and swapping partners, watching other couples have sex, dating other people or even entering into polyamorous relationships with multiple partners. Determine what's OK and what's not.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: culturewars; fake; fakenews; gaymarriage; hiv; lgbt; perversion; pervertpower; perverts; polyamory; polygamy; promiscuity
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To: tjd1454; windcliff

God Bless You too.

Great to be married!


81 posted on 04/13/2017 1:05:49 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: tjd1454

Ah life’s fun...

You don’t get to win at everything.

Still, I’ve to be me...https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rbLlCxK0pHY

And enjoy myself....https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n7VT2EHa0b4


82 posted on 04/13/2017 1:42:34 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: central_va
Monogamy means never getting caught.

In my world it means being crazy in love and not having the slightest interest in playing around with somebody else.

83 posted on 04/13/2017 1:53:55 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: walford
When you study history of small groups that broke away from the mainstream to set up their own little communities you find that most of them failed.

Looking at those that lasted you find that they all had a set of rules about sex. They were not all the SAME rules but they all had rules about who could sleep with who.

It ranged from strict celibacy (works fairly well as long as you take in orphans), to one man and one woman (works every time), one man and several certain women (may work as long as you can give each their own place) but there were always rules.

What never works is, everybody sleeps with everybody. We are not programed that way. Sex is not a game of cards where it does not matter who you play with. It matters. It matters on a very primal level.

It is not just a matter of children either. We long for someone to be tied to exclusively. Yes, even the guys who claim they don't want to be tied down throw a fit when they find out their special girl was sleeping with someone else.

You can call it social conditioning but the truth is that sex means something to humans. All humans. Everywhere.

84 posted on 04/13/2017 2:04:36 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi

G.K Chesterton was a very sharp guy.


85 posted on 04/13/2017 2:09:04 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: walford

Recently I went a little nuts for a fellow. He wanted monogamy, but only considers intercourse sex.....That’s the legacy of BILL CLINTON coming back to bite us.

Like I told him when I said goodbye, “If it FEELS GOOD, it’s SEX!”

DUH


86 posted on 04/13/2017 2:18:22 PM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

LOL!


87 posted on 04/13/2017 2:19:25 PM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: heartwood

My dogs favorite treat is warm cat turds out of the litterbox.


88 posted on 04/13/2017 2:31:30 PM PDT by tuffydoodle ("Never underestimate the total depravity of the average human being.")
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To: tuffydoodle

Apparently I’m being more than usually annoying today.


89 posted on 04/13/2017 2:36:59 PM PDT by heartwood (If you're looking for a </sarc tag>, you just saw it.)
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To: heartwood

LOL not at all. I just like having fun when people equate animals and humans. Animals always do stuff that human beings are supposed to be smart enough not to do.


90 posted on 04/13/2017 2:42:19 PM PDT by tuffydoodle ("Never underestimate the total depravity of the average human being.")
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To: walford

Ian Kerner is an example of an adult with an infantile level of emotional maturity: his concept of right and wrong revolves around instant gratification.


91 posted on 04/13/2017 5:55:08 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: walford

The left’s drive for promiscuity is intended to destroy the nuclear family because it is an impediment to their power. They want children alone and vulnerable so they can be indoctrinated into liberal fantasies.


92 posted on 04/13/2017 6:17:31 PM PDT by hopespringseternal
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To: walford

Great post.


93 posted on 04/14/2017 5:55:05 AM PDT by Paulie (America without Christ is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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To: AuntB

>>>Like I told him when I said goodbye, “If it FEELS GOOD, it’s SEX!”<<<

Well, that explains my deep and meaningful relationship with chocolate mousse!


94 posted on 04/14/2017 9:20:02 AM PDT by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, conservative by principle.)
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To: MeganC

LOL!!!!


95 posted on 04/14/2017 10:35:02 AM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: ctdonath2
On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "The Wages of Sin is Death."
96 posted on 04/14/2017 11:12:17 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

That’s pretty much how Edmund Burke and Russell Kirk saw it.


97 posted on 04/14/2017 2:06:02 PM PDT by Pelham (Liberate California. Deport Mexico Now)
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To: Elsie

I’ve known two couples, one in the 1970s and one in the 2010s, who decided that they should get involved in this. ‘Open marriage’ was the 70s version, ‘The Lifestyle’ in the 2010s. ‘Lunacy’ is what I called it both times, and my dire predictions were hooted down. They had evolved beyond jealousy don’t you know.

It took maybe a year for the 70s marriage to blow up. Ironically enough the wife, who had instigated the whole thing, is the one who was driven crazy with jealousy. In the 2000s the husband was pushing it and the wife went along. That lasted maybe two years before the husband was caught “cheating” (adultery has rules, who knew?) by meeting up with someone on his own time and the wife filed for divorce. I was two for two and insufferable in my gloating.


98 posted on 04/14/2017 2:29:15 PM PDT by Pelham (Liberate California. Deport Mexico Now)
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To: MeganC

Does the mousse tell you it loves you? Don’t fall for its sweet talk.


99 posted on 04/14/2017 2:32:31 PM PDT by Pelham (Liberate California. Deport Mexico Now)
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To: Pelham

Hahahahaha!!! “Sweet talk”!!! That was awesome!!!


100 posted on 04/14/2017 3:16:55 PM PDT by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, conservative by principle.)
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