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This is a friendly community to discuss all aspects of polyamory, positive and negative. Whether you're polyamorous, or just curious about polyamory, please feel free to post your questions and observations here. All levels of experience are welcome. Discussion about all aspects of the theory and practice of polyamory is encouraged.Before you post, please read our policies: Entries: This community is topic-specific. Entries must somehow pertain to polyamory. We're pretty flexible about this- after all, some relationship issues apply to polyamory and to other lovestyles. Use your best judgment. Since this is a discussion forum, posts need to be discussion-oriented. Do not disable comments on entries. Do not make entries that only you can understand. Do make entries designed for discussion. Do not make "intro posts." It is acceptable to introduce yourself in a post that has some actual content, but posts made solely for the purpose of introducing yourself are not allowed. This is because, in a community as large as this one, an intro post would quickly become lost, and increase post volume unnecessarily. Please endeavor to use good grammar and spelling in your entries, so that readers can understand you. Entries don't have to be perfect, just decent. Do your best, but don't be scared to post if your grammar/spelling are not flawless. Please, no personal ads. There are other communities for that. Please put all long posts, or images, behind an lj-cut. All community members may add tags and tag entries. Do not add redundant tags- this annoys the administrators. Before adding a tag, look at the list of current tags to see if one will suit your purpose. Comments: Regarding freezing comments: contact the administrators before freezing any threads in this forum. In some cases, we will grant permission for threads to be frozen. Do not freeze threads without contacting us first. Regarding deleting comments: do not delete the comments of other people in an attempt to shut down discussion. Discussion is the point of the community. When responding to comments, please keep your comment threaded on the original entry. The exception: if you think that a comment has merit as its own entry, then go ahead and post it. An entry should be complete in itself and not require that one read the inspiring thread for context. If all you have to offer is a derogatory comment about someone's spelling or grammar, then in fact, you have nothing to offer. Such commentary serves no purpose other than to vent your spleen toward another user, and thus is not welcome here. General: Don't be stupid. Verbal abuse will not be tolerated. When in doubt regarding what constitutes verbal abuse, contact an administrator. If someone has been abusive to you in this community, see here. We want to hear from you, but we need you to behave with integrity and give us a chance to do the same. Users who are continually and deliberately disruptive will find themselves banned.Information: If you are looking for a polyamory-friendly counselor, physician, or other professional, a list can be found here.Enjoy the community!This community is maintained by 00goddess, dartpoly, symposiarch, serenejournal, mama_hogswatch, and sheyeblaze.Infinite Love symbol designed by Brian Crabtree, used with permission.

This hypertext book explores the psychological aspects of environments created by computers and online networks. It presents an evolving conceptual framework for understanding how people react to and behave within cyberspace: what I call "the psychology of cyberspace" - or simply "cyberpsychology." Continually being revised and expanded, this hypertext book originally was created in January of 1996. See the article index which indicates the articles most recently added and revised.

A former stripper who once got nekkid on the Howard Stern Show, Chelsea Girl calls her very smart sex blog "Pretty Dumb Things." And it's been gathering so much attention that she's been asked to write for Yahoo! Personals, the Sappho's Girls blog an...

To many, "open marriage" is a phrase so laden with 1970s nostalgia that the idea can't be considered without imagining its practitioners leering at each other across shag-carpeted conversation pits, their chest hair spilling out of maroon polyester leisure suits.

Even if the relationship is not exclusive, everyone wants to feel they are special, and if she has another one who turns out to be a bit more special to her, can one be indifferent to that? But I think the point about polyamory is that you are open a...

While swinging only involves sharing your partner with others for sex, many couples engage in polyamory , where there is an actual love relationship between multiple partners and couples.

While many have fights and arguments due to petty jealousy, others actually open their sex lives to others. They share and enjoy these experiences together, and amazingly enough, these experiences often bring a couple much closer together.

I interviewed 7 long term polyamorous couples to explore the nature of a commitment that is not defined by sexual exclusivity.

But what if our partner’s sensuous or emotional joy were to arise in relation not to us but to someone else? For the vast majority of people, the immediate reaction would likely be not one of expansive openness and love, but rather of contracting fea...

But my observations of other people's coming-out experiences make me think that some families actually have an easier time accepting kink than they do polyamory.

You can't optimise one kind of relationship to fit everyone. People can make sense of their worlds in many ways if monogamy is not the default

Polyamorous people have sexual, emotional, loving, and/or committed relationships that are ongoing with more than one person. Relationships, in fact, are what set polyamory apart from other forms of non-monogamy like swinging or occasionally hooking ...

Polyamorous people, on the other hand, extend emotional closeness and commitment to more than one partner at a time. They accept that sexual energy can be shared with two or more lovers without neglecting anyone; cheating, in the poly world, occurs w...