{"id":11187,"date":"2009-02-14T15:00:24","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T20:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=11187"},"modified":"2009-02-13T13:42:23","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T18:42:23","slug":"poly-is-political-choosing-the-freedom-to-choose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/sexuality\/poly-is-political-choosing-the-freedom-to-choose\/","title":{"rendered":"Poly is Political: Choosing the Freedom to Choose"},"content":{"rendered":"

“We are equal beings and the universe is our relationships with each other.”
\n–Thaddeus Golas, The Lazy Man’s Guide to Enlightenment<\/em><\/p>\n

“The obstacle was not in Jacqueline, it lay deep within O herself, its roots deeper than anything she had ever before encountered. It was because Ren\u0413\u00a9 was leaving her free, and she loathed her freedom. Her freedom was worse than any chains.”
\n–Pauline R\u0413\u00a9age, Story of O<\/em><\/p>\n

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For an entire generation or more, right-wing political movements have hit us on the head with “the return to family values” as a top-shelf intoxicant in their political agenda. Visionaries of regressive social movements see the decline of society reflected in the supposed breakdown of the nuclear family, and view the repair of society as starting with what they feel is its most basic cellular element, a fantasy consisting of Mom, Dad and the Kidz contained in a neat package, a centrally-air conditioned, mortgaged suburban home.<\/p>\n

Yet equally political is the personal choice to exist in different kinds of family, or what some people call “love-style,” which includes the choice to have more than one lover or life-partner as a natural state of being. It is called “polyamory” or “panfidelity,” and the basic idea is in having committed, long-term relationships with more than one person. This is different than the polygamy of the Mormons or the Jews of the Old Testament because such families generally consisted of one man and a harem of wives. In many polygamous situations across the cultures, a man can have as many wives as he can afford to support.<\/p>\n

Polyamorous situations, on the contrary, usually are extended families or networks of men and women who are striving for a more honest, egalitarian way of life. Polyamory distinguishes itself from “swinging,” which is a lifestyle generally involving weekend sex-play among married couples. Though couples involved in swinging often have long-term friendships, the essential nature of the marriages is usually quite traditional, with the couples frequently practicing what they term “emotional monogamy.” That is, it’s OK to have sex with other people, but it’s not OK to be emotionally bonded or in love with them.<\/p>\n

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“We are equal beings and the universe is our relationships with each other.” –Thaddeus Golas, The Lazy Man’s Guide to Enlightenment “The obstacle was not in Jacqueline, it lay deep within O herself, its roots deeper than anything she had ever before encountered. It was because Ren\u0413\u00a9 was leaving her free, and she loathed her … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,52,117,1785,1776,1043],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}