Reid knocked it out of the park. I’ve never seen him present before; this is a guy whose friends estimate he’s had more than 150,000 conversations with people about sex and relationships. It started when he was working as a bartender while attending Brown. He was the guy who would always start the conversation; and then people started seeking him out. That’s how be got his initial training as a ‘sex expert’. The perfect way.
Listening to him I was having a difficult time putting my finger through the gold ring of what he was saying in his keynote presentation. His many stories were weaving a theme, but I couldn’t see the pattern. Usually I’m good at summing up the ideas of others in a way they agree is valid.
I’ll try again. I think he was saying that now that polyamory has reached a level of cultural acknowledgment (at least in many places), we need to put the struggle for acceptance down (and it has been significant for many poly people, who have had the shadow material of others blown back in their faces constantly), and ease into being a legitimate part of society: not one of its problems. Not some other form of cheating, but people who are entitled to love the way that we love and organize our households the way that we want.