Polyamory
Last substantive revision: 2015-08-22
Belief: possible
Just some notes for now.
- gwern comments on Open Thread, February 1-14, 2012
- File on dropboxusercontent.com (this one talks about Aspergers at the end)
- What does “experienced polyamorous folk tend to have a lot more practice with explicit communication than the mainstream” mean?
- How common is polyamory among Aspies?
- A Nice Thing About Polyamory
- Relationship anarchy, or, as Kaj Sotala says, the idea of not needing to “draw a sharp line between romantic partners and close friends” by “[finding] such a division slightly artificial in the first place.”
- Polyhacking
- Rational Romantic Relationships, Part 1: Relationship Styles and Attraction Basics
- Unknown knowns: Why did you choose to be monogamous?
- From a comment:
See also gwern in The Melancholy of Subculture Society:
It’s something of a mystery why monogamy has thrived over the last millennium - why not allow polygyny, polyandry, both (polygamy) or even full blown polyamory? Why restrict freedom in this regard, restrict it so viciously that society is willing to kill over it? One explanation I find appealing suggests that marriage - sex - may be an example of societies encouraging the formation of more-optimal multiple hierarchies of status as opposed to a single one. To very broadly generalize, those alternatives seem to boil down to polygyny (polyandry being very rare) and polygyny seems to correlate with societies where there are few ways to status but violence & hunting, while monogamy encourages males to engage in economic competition for mates
Related is a comment by Wei Dai and Tertilt’s PDF on berkeley.edu that is linked.
Hmm I also want to talk about this in the context of e.g. decline in traditional romantic relationships
Polyamory vs monoamory and following up, a discussion on Vipul Naik’s Facebook wall
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