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- From: rowanf@crc.ricoh.com (Rowan Fairgrove)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Re: Definition of "monogamy"?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.210002.4304@crc.ricoh.com>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 21:00:02 GMT
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- Reply-To: rowanf@crc.ricoh.com (Rowan Fairgrove)
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- Aahz writes:
-
- > BTW, based on some responses I'm seeing, just wanted to ask that people
- >discuss the *definition* of "monogamy", rather than whether or not they
- >themselves are monogamous. Kitten and Mike have done a good job so far.
- --
-
- Granted you didn't ask if people were monogamous or not, but the
- definitions we have heard have seemed to me to be informed by the
- fact that most of the people offering them consider themselves to
- be so.
-
- I offered mine in e-mail, but since the topic has caught on, let me
- share it with the folx here.
-
- Monogamy is a promise of sexual/emotional (whatever those involved
- define as important) fidelity between people in a relationship. The
- relationship may have as many people in it as have been agreed upon
- by the participants to be a primary relationship.
-
- Some people feel that more than two people cannot have a primary
- relationship and we have seen that view reflected here. eg.
- kitten sez ..... two candles that fuse into one light ....conversely,
- a non-monogamous person lights many flames but ultimately stands
- alone. Mary Merrytail sez ...I can't care the same way about two people.
- */ sez .... I've always thought that a monogamous
- relationship was a longish-term relationship between two people
- who were not currently involved with anyone else.
-
- Polyamorous doesn't necessarily mean promiscuous. It means
- loving more than one person at a time. That is certainly possible
- in the context of a committed relationship.
-
- Gypsy realizes she is beginning to get heated and the telltail
- soapboxes are beginning to appear.
-
- Oh, bloody heck. Sorry to get overwrought, but I see people
- denying the possibility of polyamory so very often and I wish
- we could recognize that not everyone loves the same way just
- as not everyone lives the same way. (I appreciated Mary's
- words to this effect as well.)
-
- Gypsy slithers down off the soapboxes and proceeds to the
- chalkline.
-
- <To the many paths that bring people to happiness>
-
- ***CRASH*****
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- Gypsy
-
- Rowan Fairgrove
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