{"id":5214,"date":"2017-07-26T12:58:35","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T10:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5214"},"modified":"2017-07-26T12:58:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T10:58:35","slug":"the-benefits-of-polyamory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/5214\/","title":{"rendered":"The Benefits of Polyamory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month the Metro carried <a href=\"http:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2017\/06\/28\/what-is-polyamory-and-a-polyamorous-relationship-6741253\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an article<\/a> on polyamory in which they asked the question:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What are the benefits of a poly relationship?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The answer:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You can experience a unique and lasting love with more than one person, which opens you up to lots of different experiences with multiple people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can do this without having sex, unless those &#8220;different experiences&#8221; are having sex.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you\u2019re feeling down, or need support, you\u2019ll have more than one loving partner to turn to \u2013 which will add increased comfort and reassurance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When in need of support, is it really necessary that it comes from more than one person you&#8217;re having sex with?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s also a good setup for those who like to get creative in bed \u2013 with everyone being into different things in the bedroom, a person who wants to try lots of things can get experimental with more than one person, and learn things from multiple lovers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ah, it&#8217;s mainly about sex, then. I&#8217;ve noticed this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2959\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">before<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month the Metro carried an article on polyamory in which they asked the question: What are the benefits of a poly relationship? The answer: You can experience a unique and lasting love with more than one person, which opens &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/5214\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[87,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5214"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5215,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5214\/revisions\/5215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}