Polyamory

333 · 09-22-2011, 09:50 AM

I noticed that sex has been brought into the discussion quite a bit and though I think most people who choose a polyamorous lifestyle typically engage in sex with multiple partners, a polyamorous relationship does not mean you do have sex with multiple partners. The definition seems to be more focused on the idea of being in love with multiple people. I believe this is possible and feel that in past, when I claimed that monogamy was the only lifestyle for me, I was incorporating some form of exclusivity with love.

So, what of the nature and science of what a polyamorous and monogamous lifestyle yields, sexually? When we look at other organisms, we can observe that, for the most part, they have multiple sex partners. This, I believe, ties into sub-categories of natural selection such as sexual selection (intersexual). If we eliminated the idea that we should only reproduce with one partner, how would this affect us as a species?

09-22-2011, 09:50 AM	#24 (permalink)
333 Music Addict Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 965	I noticed that sex has been brought into the discussion quite a bit and though I think most people who choose a polyamorous lifestyle typically engage in sex with multiple partners, a polyamorous relationship does not mean you do have sex with multiple partners. The definition seems to be more focused on the idea of being in love with multiple people. I believe this is possible and feel that in past, when I claimed that monogamy was the only lifestyle for me, I was incorporating some form of exclusivity with love. So, what of the nature and science of what a polyamorous and monogamous lifestyle yields, sexually? When we look at other organisms, we can observe that, for the most part, they have multiple sex partners. This, I believe, ties into sub-categories of natural selection such as sexual selection (intersexual). If we eliminated the idea that we should only reproduce with one partner, how would this affect us as a species?