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What's your gender? | (If you're not monog dating/married, imagine you are.) If you press the button, your partner happily agrees to let you have a one night stand with someone you find very attractive, once. Your partner will never get upset, and the event disrupts nothing. You:

Male || press button
55.4%
Male || don't press
32.2%
Female || press button
7%
Female || don't press
5.5%

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8:44 AM · Jan 14, 2021

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If the partner happily agrees, it's still monogamy.

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Wtf do you think polyamory is

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I don’t like the idea of making my partner do something they wouldn’t otherwise do, so no. Reminds me of WestWorld, when one robot character changes the code of her partner to suit her. But if he were to suggest it on his own, I would probably lose attraction to him.

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You’re keeping the magic button store afloat in these trying times.

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I don't like the idea of artificially changing my potential partner's mind about something.

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i wouldn't press it. Not because I see monogamous as sacrosanct or important at all as a concept, but because my sexual attraction to people comes hand in hand with my emotional commitment to them. One night stands, even without consequences, have no interest for me.

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For this fictional scenario that doesn't even force anybody to follow through with anything, can people who do not intend to press the button please elaborate on why they wouldn't?

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'disrupts nothing' is making this hypothetical too difficult to imagine