it's all so tiresome, but at least the conventional "mistress", "mé·nage à trois", etc have good sexy marketing. All the poly terms remind me of all the poly people I've worked with at startups: doughy, pale, wearing nerd t-shirts and lank long hairhttps://twitter.com/j_arthur_bloom/status/1189191770137092096 …
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3/ besides running the GURP campaign her hobbies include making pins with clever puns for the Arisia science fiction convention, fermenting vegetables in the basement of her Somerville group house to make kimchi, and encouraging people to "come out" as poly.
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4/ I'm a libertarian. Each to their own, and polyamory should be legal. But ... yeah,
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5/ btw, footnote: I've worked at several MIT area startups and met dozens of poly people there. All of the "mean", "unrepresentative" examples above are literally drawn from real life.
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6/ Indeed. An "assignation" on the sly seems far more titillating than using Google calendars to coordinate with your wife what night she's boning with Pedro so that you can take Melinda to the folk dance.https://twitter.com/FormerlyFormer/status/1189194682775068681 …
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7/ Although - DAMNIT ! - I can't let this go without being fair to my poly acquaintances and steelmanning it. They'd argue "but it's not ABOUT titillation or sex - it's about multiple fulfilling relationships!" sigh
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Sonya and Alex are not poly , so I don't know what you're talking about.
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