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"One-to-many" polygamy reduces evolutionary pressure on one gender, while increasing it for the other. From a human perspective, one man to many women is far more practical than one woman to many men for obvious reproductive reasons. In that case, selective pressures are reduced for females and increased for males. On the balance, that might not matter were it not for two things:

1) The X chromosome is common to both genders, contains many important genes, and men don't have a spare.

2) Mitochondrial DNA (being separate from nuclear DNA) is inherited directly and entirely from the female side.

Because of this, decreasing evolutionary pressure on the female side is really a pretty bad idea for the human species. Worse, in any case, than the inverse.

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One is rough enough, multiple is more than I can handle. I only have enough love for one woman. After that I'd have to start adding some filler to help spread it around.

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Yeah I've got my hands full with just the one. I'm not throwing any other wives into the mix. Plus my mom would kill me.


Having met your mom, I doubt that. She's much too nice a person to kill her own son. She would just give you the glare of death and make you wish she would just shoot you and get it over with, then tell one of your male relatives to put you out of your misery. Which they would do because she told them to.

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In the past they were in a closed poly relationship IIRC. I bet its referenced somewhere if you searched it.


I'm not positive, but you may be confusing them with another regular poster.


I think Taly is the wise insight on this.

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In the past they were in a closed poly relationship IIRC. I bet its referenced somewhere if you searched it.


I'm not positive, but you may be confusing them with another regular poster.


I think Taly is the wise insight on this.


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Seriously, didn't Shel and Taam have a live-in girlfriend for a long-time?

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Seriously, didn't Shel and Taam have a live-in girlfriend for a long-time?


It's possible. That doesn't make it a "closed relationship," though.

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Seriously, didn't Shel and Taam have a live-in girlfriend for a long-time?

If I recall correctly, that was before the Shel hit the scene.

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Taamar lived with a boyfriend and girlfriend before we met, and we have had an open relationship since somewhere around our second or third year together. While we're open to the idea of adding a live-in girlfriend to our relationship, we're not actively pursuing this as a goal and haven't stumbled across the "right girl" yet.

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Ha! Bite me naysayers!


Methinks you missed the point. And Screeling was right...

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Apparently you've lost your status as the godless heathen whore of the board.

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Apparently you've lost your status as the godless heathen whore of the board.


I thought that was Rynar's title? :p~~~


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Shelgeyr wrote:
Taamar lived with a boyfriend and girlfriend before we met, and we have had an open relationship since somewhere around our second or third year together. While we're open to the idea of adding a live-in girlfriend to our relationship, we're not actively pursuing this as a goal and haven't stumbled across the "right girl" yet.


If you don't mind me asking, (and if you do, thats ok), but what is that like? If there is sexual activity, must all parties be involved? If two of you want to have sex without the third, can you go into a bedroom and close the door and the third has to respect your privacy? Does jealousy come into play?
I'm totally open-minded here in asking; I'm genuinely curious.

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Taly? Again..I think Taly could answer :)

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I could have sworn from threads in one of the several previous incarnations of the glade that Taly and husband had a live in as well.

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Killuas wrote:
I could have sworn from threads in one of the several previous incarnations of the glade that Taly and husband had a live in as well.


Someone pays attention. Close enough, anyway. She doesn't exactly live with us, she has her own apartment.

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If you don't mind me asking, (and if you do, thats ok), but what is that like?


While this question was for Shelgeyr, I will say the more answers you get, the clearer picture it will be, since I imagine the answer will vary depending on which couple/trio you ask.

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If there is sexual activity, must all parties be involved?

Not in our case. Although this is probably because the girlfriend is mine, not my husband's. He's invited to join sometimes.

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If two of you want to have sex without the third, can you go into a bedroom and close the door and the third has to respect your privacy?

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Does jealousy come into play?

We work hard to ensure it doesn't. I don't imagine it's possible for everyone, but this is something of a unusual situation. The dynamic is definitely trickier.

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I'm totally open-minded here in asking; I'm genuinely curious

That's how it starts. ;)

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Quick run LK! Talya will lead you to the dark side! :twisted:
Not saying you may not enjoy it or it's a bad thing.. but ya know.. it's the dark side and all hehe :P
Totally un-related (possibly) topic. Why are the things are the dark side so fun/yummy/enjoyable? :neko:


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Lyddia:

That's because many religious folk try to follow "ascetism" to different extents. They relate goodness to refraining from fun and enjoyable things. For example the holiday Lent. It's all very backwards and they are afflictled with cultural illness in my opinion.

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If you don't mind me asking, (and if you do, thats ok), but what is that like?
For the most part, it's kinda nice. We tend to select alternate partners with whom we share interests that aren't common to us. For example, I tend to date girls who like to watch movies, as Taamar doesn't. This arrangement means I get to watch movies with someone I'm close to, and Taamar doesn't have to suffer the experience.

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If there is sexual activity, must all parties be involved?
Not at all.

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If two of you want to have sex without the third, can you go into a bedroom and close the door and the third has to respect your privacy?
Yes, however, we tend to either have sex outside our own home or when the other partner is elsewhere. I think you may be confusing me with someone who has a multiple-partner living arrangement.

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Does jealousy come into play?
Sometimes. When it does, we do our best to figure out whatever is causing us trouble and find a way to resolve the issue.

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I'm totally open-minded here in asking; I'm genuinely curious.
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That's how it starts. ;)
What she said ;)

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I'm totally open-minded here in asking; I'm genuinely curious.
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That's how it starts. ;)
What she said ;)


Yeah, I already asked NF, he said no way. ;)

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Yeah, I already asked NF, he said no way. ;)

Not to sound as judgemental as I know I will but good for him ;)

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Yeah, I already asked NF, he said no way. ;)

Not to sound as judgemental as I know I will but good for him ;)


Yeah but he won't let me do his hair and make-up and talk about boys and the Kardashians and stuff. He also doesn't like it when I ***** about him, to him. Kinda need another girl around for all that.

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Yeah, I already asked NF, he said no way. ;)

Not to sound as judgemental as I know I will but good for him ;)


Yeah but he won't let me do his hair and make-up and talk about boys and the Kardashians and stuff. He also doesn't like it when I ***** about him, to him. Kinda need another girl around for all that.

Or... and this is crazy I know... you could make a friend that is a girl rather than get a girlfriend? ;)

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Yeah, that's pretty crazy.

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