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...
by Franklin | Oct 22, 2013 | Ethics, Polyamory
“You’re selfish.” I’ve heard that charge from people on the Internet, usually folks who read one of my blog posts and say, “You have five girlfriends? That’s so selfish! You’re hogging all the women for yourself.” “You’re selfish.” Lately, I’ve been hearing it from an...
by Franklin | Oct 5, 2013 | Polyamory
A lot of folks have compared being polyamorous today to being gay several decades ago, before the GLBTQ+ movement became a major civil rights campaign. The comparison is apt in some ways; for example, there is still little social acceptance of polyamory. It’s also...
by Franklin | Sep 30, 2013 | Polyamory, Relationship Ideas
Polyamorous relationships come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes, with all sorts of configurations, arrangements and agreements. From closed triads to sprawling networks, from tightly nested live-in relationships to aggregations of long-distance relationships,...
by Franklin | Sep 26, 2013 | Crowdfunding, Polyamory
Today’s post is an answer to another question from a $500-level backer of our Indiegogo campaign [update 11/27/2014: we’re running a new campaign!], and… I must say, y’all are making us work hard for your money. This one is even tougher than the last one....
by Franklin | Sep 15, 2013 | Crowdfunding, Polyamory
One of the rewards for the More Than Two crowdfunding campaign is that, at $500 and above, we’ll answer a question on the blog (or write a post on the topic of your choice). This post presents our first backer question–and naturally it’s a doozy,...
by Franklin | Sep 7, 2013 | Crowdfunding
AAAAND the caption contest winner is… Edward Martin! For this gem: For his caption, which won by a landslide (you know you guys are sick bastards, right?), Edward will receive a copy of The Polyamorists Next Door. But we have an honorable mention: One with...
by Franklin | Sep 5, 2013 | Polyamory
If you venture into the organized polyamory community for long enough, or even talk to people about polyamory online for long enough, eventually you’re bound to encounter someone who describes polyamory as the Next Stage In Human Evolution…assuming you...
by Franklin | Aug 29, 2013 | Crowdfunding
CAPTION CONTEST! We’re giving out a signed first edition of Dr. Elisabeth Sheff’s forthcoming book The Polyamorists Next Door–normally one of the $500 perks of our crowdfunding campaign–to the More Than Two backer who writes the best caption for this...
by Franklin | Aug 27, 2013 | Polyamory, The Authors
Polyamory writer and activist Louisa Leontiades has published a piece on the Huffington Post called The Hell of Monogamy. In it, she describes her own experiences trying to force herself to fit a model of relationship that wasn’t a good match for her. This...
