{"id":3230,"date":"2022-10-01T19:06:53","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T02:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.morethantwo.com\/blog\/?p=3230"},"modified":"2023-09-01T16:47:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T23:47:33","slug":"statement-on-a-world-beyond-monogamy-jonathan-kents-polyamory-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morethantwo.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/statement-on-a-world-beyond-monogamy-jonathan-kents-polyamory-book","title":{"rendered":"Statement on A World Beyond Monogamy, Jonathan Kent\u2019s Polyamory Book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.morethantwo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/pinnochio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.morethantwo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/pinnochio-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3231\" title=\"Image: Jametlene Reskp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.morethantwo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/pinnochio-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.morethantwo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/pinnochio-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.morethantwo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/pinnochio-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.morethantwo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/pinnochio-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.morethantwo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/pinnochio-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.morethantwo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/pinnochio-1080x720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.morethantwo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/pinnochio-1280x853.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.morethantwo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/pinnochio-980x653.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.morethantwo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/pinnochio-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@reskp\">Jametlene Reskp<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Gather \u2019round, everyone, and let me tell you a story. It\u2019s a story full of pornography, intrigue, rumor, innuendo, misplaced credit for a massive book, and kinky sex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s go back to February of 2022, when British author and former BBC correspondent Jonathan Kent published a book on non-monogamy called <em>A World Beyond Monogamy: How People Make Polyamory and Open Relationships Work and What We Can All Learn From Them, <\/em>a lovely book that takes a global approach to polyamory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No, wait, let\u2019s go back further, to an orgy in Lincolnshire, England, where Eunice Hung and I started writing erotic science fiction novels together. (No, that\u2019s not the story, though it is an interesting tale of its own).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eunice and I started working together to set a book in a setting she\u2019d dreamed up: the City, a far future, post-scarcity society run by benevolent AIs who were worshipped as gods, largely through ritualized group sex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We wrote the first novel together, sent queries to a huge number of publishers, and got back fifteen rejection slips that all said basically the same thing: \u201cInteresting book, but we don\u2019t know how to sell it. Erotica is siloed\u2014people who buy gay cowboy porn won\u2019t buy gay auto mechanic porn. This novel doesn\u2019t fit a genre, so we don\u2019t know how to connect to an audience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So we were like \u201cYou know what? Let\u2019s start a publishing company.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We started Luminastra Press together, then looked for other authors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eunice suggested her friend Jonathan. He was still interviewing people for <em>A World Beyond Monogamy<\/em>\u2014in fact, he interviewed me and a bunch of other poly folk when I was in Lincolnshire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jonathan is a journalist. He\u2019s worked or reported for Reuters, the BBC, Newsweek, KQED, The Daily Telegraph and a bunch of others. He\u2019s been a foreign correspondent and a political reporter. He thought that most writing he\u2019d seen about polyamory was what he called the \u2018me and my fifty sweeties in a flower-strewn valley in Sweden\u2019 variety: very personal, overwhelmingly from a single viewpoint, very North American and not much use to anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.morethantwo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/jonathan-kent-cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.morethantwo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/jonathan-kent-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3232\" width=\"437\" height=\"469\" title=\"Jonathan Kent, a person who is not me.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.morethantwo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/jonathan-kent-cropped.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.morethantwo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/jonathan-kent-cropped-279x300.jpg 279w, https:\/\/www.morethantwo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/jonathan-kent-cropped-480x516.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Jonathan Kent, a person who is not me.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>His book sprang from a simple proposition\u2013approach consensual non-monogamy just as he would have if he were reporting for one of the news organizations he\u2019d worked for, interviewing people from a wide range of backgrounds and presenting the conclusions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His book sported interviews with sixty or so people from all over the world\u2014one of the first rigorously researched polyamory books to take a truly global perspective ever to be written. It\u2019s really good (I\u2019ll likely review it later.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, the book became the first non-fiction title published by Luminastra Press.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ic.pics.livejournal.com\/tacit\/244199\/13087\/13087_original.jpg\" alt=\"A World Beyond Monogamy, a book about polyamory written by a person who is not me.\" title=\"A World Beyond Monogamy, a book about polyamory written by a person who is not me.\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A World Beyond Monogamy, a book about polyamory written by a person who is not me.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>And all hell broke loose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the moment the crowdfunder for the book was announced, <a href=\"https:\/\/franklinveaux.medium.com\/she-only-hit-me-once-why-i-stayed-as-long-as-i-did-e0c113d14ce2\">t<\/a>here were some unbelievably strange allegations from some quarters of the poly scene, and some frankly ridiculous ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, and the one that amused me most, is that I wrote it. Now, I have to admit, I\u2019m flattered. I like my writing. But I\u2019m not sure that I could write quite like an experienced English journalist (with references to Monty Python, and a bunch of British stuff I\u2019ve never heard of, and all), together with a sense of humor\u2013err, excuse me, <em>humour\u2014<\/em> that\u2019s very noticeably British. But hey folks, if you think I\u2019m that good, just keep it coming. I appreciate the compliment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And there\u2019s also the fact that many of his interviews were conducted in person, so if I secretly wrote the book, I also have even better disguise skills than that one dude from <em>Mission: Impossible<\/em>, which is kinda cool, I guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I did actually have a small hand in it. I advised on the book layout and produced the eBook. I think they look pretty good, but then I would, wouldn\u2019t I?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then there are the people who have taken issue with the fact that he\u2019s a white guy and the book includes a whole range of voices from around the world, many of whom are people of color and\/or queer, quoting them extensively and discussing ENM from their perspectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is exactly what Jonathan did as a correspondent. It\u2019s called \u2018journalism.\u2019 The point with good journalism is that it collects a range of views and represents them fairly. And if someone wrote a book including voices from different parts of the world but they were all straight and white wouldn\u2019t that be weirder? As it is, almost every book about ENM is written by middle class white people from North America talking about their own experiences. <em>A World Beyond Monogamy<\/em> set out to reach beyond that narrow focus (and, in my opinion, does it better than anything else out there).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyhow, perhaps the weirdest thing is that people are saying that people shouldn\u2019t buy this book because I profit from it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just for the record, I stepped down from Luminastra more than a year ago, when this bizarre \u201cJonathan is Franklin\u2019s catspaw, Franklin secretly wrote his book\u201d weirdness started. These days I recommend <em>A World Beyond Monogamy<\/em>, even though I make no money from it (unless you buy it using my Amazon affiliate code, in which case, thank you!). It\u2019s just a more thorough, better researched book. It\u2019s also more up to date\u2014the world, and our community, has moved on in all those years since I first started writing <em>More Than Two<\/em>. We really need to move on with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, like I said, I stepped down from Luminastra last year after discussions that had run for some months. I was more interested in writing and releasing books than I was being a publisher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nevertheless people are still getting attacked and threatened over all this. Not just Jonathan\u2014someone I should add that I\u2019ve met in person precisely once\u2014but people he knows (apparently <strong>just<\/strong> because he knows them), and maybe people they know too. It\u2019s happening to other people I know as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, you read that right. <strong>People not connected to me are receiving harassing and threatening emails because <\/strong><strong><em>they know Jonathan who knows me.<\/em><\/strong> I\u2019m serious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are the tactics of the far right. Fuck fascism.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ic.pics.livejournal.com\/tacit\/244199\/12864\/12864_original.jpg\" alt=\"Twitter\u2019s business model.\" title=\"Twitter\u2019s business model.\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Twitter\u2019s business model.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>But what I really don\u2019t get is why some people can\u2019t see that behavior for what it is: abuse. It\u2019s a standard tactic of abusers to try to separate their victims from other people, to isolate them. It\u2019s manipulative. It\u2019s controlling. It\u2019s about revenge. 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