this is triggering a lot of my innate skeptic response. it reads like just a couple of notches more believable than e.g. the Comet Pizza sex trafficking conspiracy. otoh, there is precedent, so... https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2014/04/sergey-brin-amanda-rosenberg-affair …
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Replying to @danlistensto @eigenrobot
once again all this drama could be avoided if these ostensibly smart people hadn't been poisoned with the idea that breaches of sexual fidelity are capital crimes in a relationship, just sayin'
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Replying to @palecur @eigenrobot
that's not what fidelity means. if everyone involved is upfront about being open or poly, it's not infidelity. if the expectation is monogamy, well, then yeah it is a major transgression.
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Replying to @danlistensto @eigenrobot
sorry if i"m misparsing but that's kind of what I was trying to convey?
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Replying to @palecur @eigenrobot
fair, but I imagine there's some kind of psycho-sexual urge to "get away with it" that drives a lot of breaches of monogamy, and that these people wouldn't actually enjoy polyamory because it lacks the transgressive thrill.
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Replying to @danlistensto @eigenrobot
Yeah, that checks out; I know poly acquaintances who have been hit on at work by someone who knew he was in a relationship, only to recoil once she realized he was going to be open and not covert about it, which baffles me, but humans, y'know.
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the thing poly people tragically overlook is that cheating is hot af
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wish they would make sex illegal again so you could ethically get a similar zing
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