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What is Polyamory?
16 years ago
What is Polyamory?
Polyamory (from Greek πολύ [poly, meaning many or several] and Latin amor [love]) is the practice, desire, or acceptance of having more than one intimate relationship at a time with the knowledge and consent of everyone involved.
Polyamory, often abbreviated as poly, is often described as consensual, ethical, or responsible non-monogamy. The word is sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to sexual or romantic relationships that are not sexually exclusive, though there is disagreement on how broadly it applies; an emphasis on ethics, honesty, and transparency all around is widely regarded as the crucial defining characteristic.
The term "polyamorous" can refer to the nature of a relationship at some point in time or to a philosophy or relationship orientation (much like gender or sexual orientation). It is sometimes used as an umbrella term that covers various forms of multiple relationships; polyamorous arrangements are varied, reflecting the choices and philosophies of the individuals involved.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyamory
Polyamory (from Greek πολύ [poly, meaning many or several] and Latin amor [love]) is the practice, desire, or acceptance of having more than one intimate relationship at a time with the knowledge and consent of everyone involved.
Polyamory, often abbreviated as poly, is often described as consensual, ethical, or responsible non-monogamy. The word is sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to sexual or romantic relationships that are not sexually exclusive, though there is disagreement on how broadly it applies; an emphasis on ethics, honesty, and transparency all around is widely regarded as the crucial defining characteristic.
The term "polyamorous" can refer to the nature of a relationship at some point in time or to a philosophy or relationship orientation (much like gender or sexual orientation). It is sometimes used as an umbrella term that covers various forms of multiple relationships; polyamorous arrangements are varied, reflecting the choices and philosophies of the individuals involved.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyamory
what i have to say on the matter
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/4170664/
just got fed up over it.
i dont care who you are, everyone has the right to love unconditionally!
(PS- i love ur icon!)
I myself must hide my true colors, but you do not, be free my friend.
Hm, you actually kinda provided a definition of friendship and family love... and partly of love. Not poly'amory'.
And loyality sounds very awkward it this context... "Loyalty is faithfulness or a devotion to a person, country, group, or cause." you can't call yourself faithful if you let's say have sex with more than one person, becuase doing so, you're not faithful to any of them. Just like you can't be faithful to more than one religion otherwise you're not trurly devoted to any of them and you're neither, let's say a Christian nor a Buddhist. In addition to, a lot of poly'amorous' people are in non-mutual combinations... Sorry.
'Poly' doesn't mean love, it means 'multi' and nothing else. What you're saying is that 'whatever poly' is 'love of sth', which is not true (e.g. 'polysyllabic' would mean 'syllabic love' or 'love for syllables'... instead of refering to a word having more than one syllable...). (Yeah, I know you just wanted to enshorten the word, but actually, it's misleading if taken out of the context)
Be careful what you speak - you did semantic mistakes in all your paragraphs. You told an open lie.
you go for polyamorous relationships because you want to? or because others taught you its selfish to love one person and be happy with one person…you people amaze me. I believe in free-will but what i know for a fact is a majority of you in this community are insecure and you just cant say no to certain things…like when someone isn't right for you but you like them too much, so you agree to stay with them with them even if it makes you uncomfortable that they do things with another.
and then even if it doesn't make you uncomfortable and it probably turns you on…a relationship is NOT a fetish. I always see people in polyamory whining about how they always get left in the end…what do you expect when you talk someone into it that didn't want it to begin with?
''The idea of 1 man and 1 women = right is deeply rooted in certain religions, but if you are not part of such religion then why do these rules apply? They don't. Many old world cultures practiced polyamory or polygamy and or polyandry before religious influence.''
Oh wow looky here...another typical furry blaming religion on something to influence people...you people are hysterical.
I hate to break it to you but plenty of religions had and supported the idea of multiple partners, do your research, polyamory is no more a thing of the future than monogamy.
I'm not religious and i don't choose polyamory because i CAN think for myself, i can accept when someone isn't for me, a majority of furs are weak-minded and easy influenced and you love to blame religion and the older generation for your issues, if relationships work for you then thats fine, but talking someone into one who never wanted that to begin with is just sick and wrong, and will only end most of the time in misery, think for yourself, don't just say that DO it.
You may be a slut/whore but don't call it love then. Poly'amory' believers commit that all the time, so they have my greatest disdain not only for being execrable in their self-humilating behaviours of being, in fact, sluts just in a more fixed environment, but mostly of trying to excuse themselves to the world by manipulating them through miscalling this 'love'.
I was not saying 'each sex is wrong'. We're humans, not just low animals. In case of humans, sex in love is right, sex out of lust and without love is wrong. The in-born consicence makes me feel it, even though I'm not into any religion. Just like it makes me feel it's wrong to go around and murder, torture etc.
The second thing you provided is still casual sex. Not even menitoning you simply ignored the love aspect completely.
its a pointless argument yet still important to make sure people know the difference, its materialism that causes people to be so pretentious and settle for the lowest of the low.
in the end the smart people will flourish, those who cant use there heads will always be confused, its got nothing to do with sucking up to the past generations or religion, being able to admit you love someone is a very special thing, but for confused people who influenced in the wrong way, its something they will never understand.
Amo= I love
The root word in Latin is Amat, Amour, is I remember clearly, is We (Plural, imperfect tenths) Love.