WHY DO PEOPLE “DO” POLYAMORY?
THE SIX MAJOR REASONS- PLUS ONE
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Portions of this article appear in the book Fifty Years of Polyamory in America: A Guided Tour of a Growing Movement by Glen W. Olson and Terry Lee Brussel-Rogers, Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, Coach and Author
Perhaps a good working definition of polyamory
would be helpful here. In the early days of the movement, when people were grappling with a way to describe what they were trying to do, many phrases were used, such as open relationship and open marriage. One of the most descriptive was responsible nonmonogamy. Dr. Deborah Anapol takes three pages in her book Polyamory, The New Love without Limits to define terms such as ethical nonmonogamy, open relationship, and open marriage and apply these concepts to the new term polyamory.
Over and over again she points out that people used specific ethical principles to guide their behavior with other people. We analyzed her explanation and believe we can boil it down to this statement: To be polyamorous is to consciously choose to have — or be open to having — emotional bonds with more than one lover at the same time and to ethically manage those relationships.
