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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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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You're missing an excluded middle here. People who a) have consensual, non-monogamous relationships (so there's nothing "on the sly" about it) but b) don't make a big deal about calling their relationships "consensual, non-monogamous".
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As usual, the easy ones to object to are the visibly freakish freaks. As usual, the visible cases aren't representative of the population. c.f. twitter
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