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Polyamory doesn't Liberate; Monogamy doesn't Protect
Reflections and community quotes from a decade in the Bay Area dating landscape.
Where exactly the relationship(s) they are in ends up falling will depend on a bunch of things about the situation, and how they feel about who they are dating, but the zone of acceptability tends to form a contiguous block on this line. One tempting (and occasionally used) analogy for poly is that it’s like gay rights: embrace of polyamorous culture is the next big step in overturning the patriarchal and religious forces trying to control sexuality. But I have met so many cases of people strongly identified with one of either monogamy or polyamory that shifted their view when their situation changed, that I simply don’t believe anymore that one style is essential to anyone’s being.
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