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- From: cascio@garnet.berkeley.edu (Jamais Cascio)
- Newsgroups: alt.polyamory
- Subject: Re: question to those involved in polyamorous relationships
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 16:52:04 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- In article <1k272hINNn22@alnitak.usc.edu> wsonnen@alnitak.usc.edu (Wayne Sonnen) writes:
- >
- >Given the situation where two people are fully open-minded
- >and educated to the various techniques, varities, games, toys, etc. of
- >lovemaking/sex would you, after a period of time, become bored with
- >your monomogous partner?
- >
- >Would your becomming "bored" have anything to do with your physical
- >attraction for this other person?
-
-
- My wife and I started exploring other people _together_ within six
- months of getting together ourselves. It had nothing to do with
- being bored with each other; it had everything to do with realizing
- that, despite being a couple, we still were looking at other people.
- Fortunately, my wife was also coming to terms with her bisexuality
- at the time, so we spent a lot of time looking at/lusting over/
- playing with the same people... ;) We've been together for over
- six and a half years, now, and we find each other even more exciting
- now. Boredom has _nothing_ to do with our polyamorousness.
-
- There is an important issue you suggest, however. My wife and
- I discovered early on that being with someone new has an excitement
- all its own, an excitement that is essentially impossible to
- reproduce in an existing relationship. There is a real turn on
- to learning a new body, a new person, having that person explore
- you. I can well imagine that someone new to non-monogamy might
- mistake that new excitement for boredom with the 'old' partner
- ("Gee, I don't feel this with X anymore, maybe I'm bored with
- him/her/hir?"). Don't worry-- this flush of excitement with the
- new person will go away soon enough on its own...
-
- Does this help to answer your question?
-
- Jamais A. Cascio \\ "I'd rather be a smartass than a dumbass"
- cascio@garnet.berkeley.edu \\ -me
- \\ "Too bad you never had a choice"
- \\ -my wife
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