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- From: jlw3y@algol.astro.Virginia.EDU (Jennifer Wesp)
- Newsgroups: alt.polyamory
- Subject: What does ployamory mean? (was Re: Intro to me and question for all)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.001308.7544@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 00:13:08 GMT
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- ambar@cygnus.com (Jean Marie Diaz) writes:
- >woodhous@latcs2.lat.oz.au (Joe P Woodhouse) writes:
-
- > : That's very contrary indeed to my experience, and also seems very
- > : counterintuitive. I'll outright ask people - does it really not seem
- > : worthy of comment at least for someone to say "Yes, by my own choice
- > : I have more than one partner, but really, I'm monogamous, I am, since
- > : I'd *prefer* having only one"?
- >
- >I do not think this is any more remarkable than those people who say 'I
- >am polyamorous by preference, but am currently being monogamous with my
- >lover, because (for any number of reasons) I have promised them that I
- >will do so.'
-
- It is stupid to tell someone that they are wrong to call themselves,
- or not call themselves, polyamorous. As long as they communicate
- what they mean, arguing about signifiers is dumb.
-
- -jennifer
-