by Franklin | Aug 3, 2014 | Ethics, Relationship Ideas
Folks already familiar with my writings over the years won’t be shocked to hear me say I’m deeply skeptical of rule-based romantic relationships. It’s a theme throughout most of my writings on polyamory, and in the book More Than Two, Eve and I argue...
by Franklin | May 19, 2014 | Ethics, Polyamory
Note: This entry is crossposted from Franklin’s personal blog. I recently encountered, during the normal course of my regular trawling across the width of this thing we call the Internet, an essay posted on the Psychology Today Web site. The article is a...
by Franklin | Jan 6, 2014 | Ethics, Guest Post, Polyamory, Relationship Ideas
This is a guest post by my sweetie Shelly, who also wrote what has been called “the best essay ever written about consent.” From her formidable mind comes this essay about primary/secondary relationships, “family” and consent. Read it. I am in...
by Franklin | Dec 10, 2013 | Ethics, Polyamory
“Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence.” — George Orwell A couple of folks have asked me why we’re placing such a heavy emphasis on ethics in our new book,...
by Franklin | Nov 10, 2013 | Ethics, Polyamory
A few days ago, someone asked an interesting question about the way polyamory is perceived by the larger monogamous world around us. Why is it, this person wondered, that people outside the poly community so often react with fear to the idea of loving more than one...
by Franklin | Oct 28, 2013 | Ethics, Guest Post, Relationship Ideas
Note: This blog post has been translated into Italian! The Italian version is here. You can also read Shelly’s other guest post here. This is a guest post by my sweetie Shelly. She sent it to us as an essay a few weeks ago, and it blew us away so much we asked...
