Polyamory: ‘Infidelity Without Betrayal’?

Literature Review

26/7/2010

Sophie Clark

Introduction

From BBC Radio Four to The American Spectator, Polyamory – a word that was coined (arguably) a mere 20 years ago (Taormino, 2008, UK Polyamory, 2010) to describe a lifestyle that has been around for as long as humanity (Veaux, 2009) – has hit the news.  Polyamory has been described as ‘infidelity without betrayal’ (Leith, 2006); a lifestyle that means the individual is ‘unable to give up one crucial relationship in the past’ (Leader, 2005); and something that should spark a ‘culture war’ (Mehan III, 2010).  But who is right?  Are any of these notions of polyamory correct?

Next chapter

Love Birds: Hetrosexual style.

R and A hugging.

My two wonderful friends R and A.  They are totally in love and are way too cute to be allowed.  As this is a blog celebrating everything pansexual, I give you my token heterosexual/normative friends!

More of these two to come, as they are both, (other than being ridiculously cute together) also sickeningly beautiful people, both physically and intellectually.

Hope you enjoy!  Any feedback is always welcome!