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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Polyamory has become just like CrossFit was a few years ago:  1.  Nothing wrong with it if it works for you, many dig it; 2. Carries inherent risks that make it a bad fit for most people; 3.  Practitioners cannot stop talking about it.[/quote]

It seems to me that you vanilla types can’t stop talking about it, either  :lol: [/quote]

Ha!  Who said I was vanilla?  You shouldn’t presume.  Heh[/quote]

Oh, please. If you weren’t a Suzy Homemaker type you wouldn’t be making digs at it. [/quote]

[b]Polyamorous people can be pretty--even painfully--vanilla, notwithstanding the non-monogamy.[/b] And plenty of monogamous people are very unvanilla (whatever the opposite of vanilla is). Making digs at how painfully awkward a lot of poly people doesn't mean that PP is vanilla.[/quote]
A part of the appeal of polyamory is that frumpy HR klatch types in librarian glasses can feel like they are “kinky” and “trangressive”, even when they have reduced sex and love to something as joyless as following the byzantine rules of the world’s most unpleasant board game. This is why it attracts nerds and the neurodivergent in droves.[/quote]

Oh I disagree. I live 5 min from one of the largest swingers havens in the nation (scarlet ranch in Littleton Colorado). “The lifestyle” is very common and very open here. It’s a very wealthy area and they are not the “fugly” type at all- they’re heavily injected and implanted and in great shape because they have trainers and money. I’m not from here and found it all shocking as I didn’t know it was such a huge thing! Never thought of myself as naive. But I was. [/quote]
[b]Ok, if true, that’s like the 1% of the 1%. 
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Curious how these beautiful, in shape and wealthy polycules are never the authors or subjects of these salacious news articles. It would really be a Man Bites Dog tale. And yet somehow, the periodicals can only find the schoolmarms and neckbeards to feature every single time. Huh. Go figure![/quote]

It's really not, it's what you tell yourself so that you feel better about it. I run in wealthy NYC circles where poly is not uncommon, and everyone is thin, well-groomed, and attractive. Sure, in rural Tennessee the poly folk are probably not stunners, but that's more a function of the fact that in rural Tennessee most people are not stunners. [/quote]

I run in wealthy circles as well and do not know a single socially normal person who is openly poly. Or anyone high ranking. [/quote]

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