Anonymous wrote:
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.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
It seems to me that you vanilla types can’t stop talking about it, either![]()
Ha! Who said I was vanilla? You shouldn’t presume. Heh
Oh, please. If you weren’t a Suzy Homemaker type you wouldn’t be making digs at it.
Polyamorous people can be pretty--even painfully--vanilla, notwithstanding the non-monogamy. 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.
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.
This is all very true. I was in poly world for about two years. It was too long.
The exciting sex was rare. The drama was nonstop.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
It seems to me that you vanilla types can’t stop talking about it, either![]()
Ha! Who said I was vanilla? You shouldn’t presume. Heh
Oh, please. If you weren’t a Suzy Homemaker type you wouldn’t be making digs at it.
Polyamorous people can be pretty--even painfully--vanilla, notwithstanding the non-monogamy. 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.
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.
This is all very true. I was in poly world for about two years. It was too long.
The exciting sex was rare. The drama was nonstop.
Anonymous wrote:Because guys like to read about it.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
It seems to me that you vanilla types can’t stop talking about it, either![]()
Ha! Who said I was vanilla? You shouldn’t presume. Heh
Oh, please. If you weren’t a Suzy Homemaker type you wouldn’t be making digs at it.
Polyamorous people can be pretty--even painfully--vanilla, notwithstanding the non-monogamy. 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.
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.
Anonymous wrote:Why are so many “mainstream” publications pushing polyamory suddenly?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
It seems to me that you vanilla types can’t stop talking about it, either![]()
Ha! Who said I was vanilla? You shouldn’t presume. Heh
Oh, please. If you weren’t a Suzy Homemaker type you wouldn’t be making digs at it.
Polyamorous people can be pretty--even painfully--vanilla, notwithstanding the non-monogamy. 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.
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.
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.
Ok, if true, that’s like the 1% of the 1%.
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!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
It seems to me that you vanilla types can’t stop talking about it, either![]()
Ha! Who said I was vanilla? You shouldn’t presume. Heh
Oh, please. If you weren’t a Suzy Homemaker type you wouldn’t be making digs at it.
Polyamorous people can be pretty--even painfully--vanilla, notwithstanding the non-monogamy. 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.
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.
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.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
It seems to me that you vanilla types can’t stop talking about it, either![]()
Ha! Who said I was vanilla? You shouldn’t presume. Heh
Oh, please. If you weren’t a Suzy Homemaker type you wouldn’t be making digs at it.
Polyamorous people can be pretty--even painfully--vanilla, notwithstanding the non-monogamy. 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.
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.
Anonymous wrote: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.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:NP. I’m poly and say nothing about it to anyone except my own partners and anonymous forums. 1) It’s no one else’s business, and 2) it works fantastically well for me but I would never in a million years presume it could or should work for others.
Just announce you're both polyamorous and asexual. It's the best of both worlds. Several bloggers have done this already.
What do those people do? Get coffee with their many non-lovers?
Wait, isn’t polyamorous asexuality just….friendship?
Friendship is old fashioned and boring. Polyamorous asexuality is the wave of the future!
Pretty much. I had a friend tell me she was "polyamorous" and I asked her was she having sex with one or both of her roommates? Surprise, none.
It was just more sexy to say that, instead of saying she was roommates with a couple for budget reasons.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
It seems to me that you vanilla types can’t stop talking about it, either![]()
Ha! Who said I was vanilla? You shouldn’t presume. Heh
Oh, please. If you weren’t a Suzy Homemaker type you wouldn’t be making digs at it.
Polyamorous people can be pretty--even painfully--vanilla, notwithstanding the non-monogamy. 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.