{"id":22906,"date":"2010-02-19T21:08:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T02:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=22906"},"modified":"2010-02-20T09:30:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T14:30:06","slug":"uh-ohh-polyamory-is-a-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/uh-ohh-polyamory-is-a-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"Uh ohh – polyamory is a trend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Goood eeeevning, from Ft. Washington, PA, where George Washington was born. I’m at the Poly Living 2010 conference (briefly described in this link<\/strong><\/a>), and I’ll be doing some live blogging of different workshops.<\/p>\n

I’m currently at the opening presentation, listening away, and it seems that: polyamory had become a friend. Oops I meant a trend. That’s the talking point, and it seems to be valid: mainstream media coverage is picking up and much of it’s been favorable the past 18 months. Those who have multiple relationships have gone from being explorers\/freaks to trailblazers and activists trying to get the message out, unto the present moment where the trend is starting to pick up.<\/p>\n

Well, maybe not in your town; maybe not in my town (Kingston, NY), but definitely in big cities (where there are well established social networks). Multiple relationships have been a reality forever, but the conversation is starting to happen. A recent article in Newsweek<\/em> (Polyamory: The Next Sexual Revolution?<\/strong><\/a>) is some evidence of that<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Reid Mihalko<\/strong><\/a>, a sex and relationship educator, is telling the story. He’s suggested that his raging activist polyamorous friends relax and take a bath; the war for acceptance is over and the trend setting phase has begun. Facebook now has an option — ‘open relationship’, and another option, ‘it’s complicated’. For kids who grow up with the Internet, polyamory (by one name or another) is not the new normal but as far as they’re concerned, what’s always been normal.<\/p>\n

Now a trend is one thing — what we have to watch out for is trendy. Another blog, however. The story going around tonight is how a newspaper in New Jersey described “New Jersey’s polyamorous relationship with gambling” — yes, the word was used as a metaphor for the many different gambling games played in that state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Goood eeeevning, from Ft. Washington, PA, where George Washington was born. I’m at the Poly Living 2010 conference (briefly described in this link), and I’ll be doing some live blogging of different workshops. I’m currently at the opening presentation, listening away, and it seems that: polyamory had become a friend. Oops I meant a trend. … 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":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22906"}],"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=22906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}