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- From: orc@vpnet.chi.il.us (david parsons)
- Subject: Re: Het males & bi-femmes
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.210437.22802@vpnet.chi.il.us>
- Followup-To: alt.polyamory
- Summary: Massive topic-drift here..
- Organization: Department of Atomic Text Units
- References: <85883@ut-emx.uucp> <1992Dec31.041804.23189@nwnexus.WA.COM> <C0549I.Fsw.1@cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 21:04:37 GMT
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- In article <C0549I.Fsw.1@cs.cmu.edu> pooh+@cs.cmu.edu (Will Timmins) writes:
- |Re three way interaction:
- [overly complicated relationship description]
-
- |Why all this nonsense? Just a thought experiment. This is the best argument
- |against polyamory- things get TREMENDOUSLY complex very quickly.
-
- Not necessarily so. It's not necessary for all of the people in
- a polyamourous tangle to be intimate with each other. If I was to
- use, for an example, my current situation, I'm got three distinct
- couple relationships, none of which interact that much. (Mind you,
- considering that each of these people have other relationships too,
- it gets very complicated, but only in a topological sense; from my
- viewpoint, the relationships are (Orc,A), (Orc,B), and (Orc,C), and
- they all function more-or-less independently (as well they should,
- because none of these people live within 500 miles of me!)
-
- Now, if you also include the people I've *slept* with, well,
- yeah, at that point it gets *very complicated.
-
- ____
- david parsons \bi/ "Probably just as well that I'm not sleeping with
- \/ anyone in chicago, though..."
-