By Maria Padhila
This is a short roundup column of some fun stuff happening in the media, because it’s past 2:00 am on a deadline, I’ve been writing for work without more than a few hours sleep for weeks, I need to drive out of here in four hours to spend three days camping in 100-degree heat, Chris is on the couch, and Issac is downstairs in our bed and that’s where I really want to be!
Sorry to be a lame columnist lately — too many paid work crises. Love? Sex? All I want is sleep. Truly. Please.
I’m looking forward to things calming down now that some major government moves have happened, and I want to catch up with the blogs and the comments here. It’s nice to know there’s a site where I’ll rarely be bored.
Part I: I’d been hearing rumblings about a major cable show on polyamory for a while, but couldn’t track anything down. This past week the releases came out: Showtime will be airing Polyamory: Married and Dating beginning July 12 at 11 pm. Seven documentary episodes, and apparently lots of sex scenes. The people in it are really great looking — just had to throw that in. It looks as pretty as The L Word or Queer As Folk!
And here’s a great surprise — one of the ‘stars’ is Kamala Devi, whose Tantra Theater I wrote about here a month or two ago. She wasn’t able to do an interview back then, and I’m worried I’ve missed my window, because I have a feeling she’s going to be pretty booked for a while.
What was really shocking was that, after seeing so many people talk of awkward, dissatisfying or even deceptive experiences in mainstream media with non-monogamy, Devi had this to say in her blog:
“Working with the director, Natalia Garcia, was a rich learning experience for me. She is a spiritually minded woman of vision, who is committed to women’s liberation and conflict resolution. The polyamorous community is blessed to have an ally in Hollywood who is not afraid of sex, nor obsessed by it either.”