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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm in an open marriage.  It works for us, but most certainly doesn't work for a lot of people.  And its ethical for us because all parties involved understand the situation and have consented. [/quote]

Neither knowledge nor consent are themselves sufficient to make something ethical, it is more complicated than that.  Fully-informed people often consent to things that are bad for them due to errors in judgment, from which they might need some protection.  And consent itself is kind of a slippery concept at times.

There are also externalities to consider, including the risks to third parties (i.e., children who might be affected by relationship instability if “ethical nonmonogamy“ has a bad outcome); modeling a form of behavior that most people cannot handle, with people getting into bad situations as a result; a broader acceptance of non-monogamy facilitating people pressuring their partners to engage in non-monogamy and becoming resentful if they will not; etc.  I personally have no issue with ethical non-monogamy, but “anything goes with informed consent” is not a viable moral philosophy.        [/quote]

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