{"id":8799,"date":"2018-12-21T08:00:43","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T07:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8799"},"modified":"2018-12-20T18:49:14","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T17:49:14","slug":"polyamory-bingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/8799\/","title":{"rendered":"Polyamory bingo"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ll not ask my readers to accompany me as I wade through yet another article<\/a> explaining how polyamorists are so radical<\/em>, so I’ll keep it brief:<\/p>\n

To find polyamorists today, head to Brooklyn.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Brooklyn – check!<\/p>\n

Attendees can choose to sketch drawings of posed models, but most people opt to stand around, mingling and talking.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Polyamorists masquerading as artists – check!<\/p>\n

But the attendees of Tableaux fit in with the rest of privileged, gentrified Brooklyn.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Polyamory being a pursuit of the privileged middle classes – check!<\/p>\n

I had coffee in Manhattan with Leon Feingold, an exceptionally tall, friendly polyamorist, eager to talk about his high IQ and his sexual philosophies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Polyamorists think they exist on a higher plane than ordinary people – check!<\/p>\n

Feingold, who wore a red Hawaiian shirt and two necklaces, one featuring a Chinese star with flamed tips (designed at Burning Man in commemoration of his late wife)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Burning Man – check!<\/p>\n

Feingold, who works as a real-estate broker and helped to establish a sex-positive, three-story, 15-bedroom apartment building in the Bushwick neighborhood<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bushwick – check!<\/p>\n

believes polyamory reflects high intelligence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Polyamorist suffering from delusion – check!<\/p>\n

But, at minimum, these surveys suggest that the number of polyamorous Americans is in the hundreds of thousands, and perhaps in the millions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Attempts to convince polyamory is normal – check!<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s happening now is so much more healthy, because it\u2019s deciding for yourself,\u201d says Jessica*, a 34-year-old<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Over thirty and unable to build lasting relationships – check!<\/p>\n

describes polyamorous politics as a mixture of socialism\u2014a respect for a non-hierarchical society that values collective, community decision-making<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lefty politics – check!<\/p>\n

a polyamorous friend who recently lost her housing soon after becoming pregnant, but was able to live comfortably with friends and lovers for several months before finding a new place of her own.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Degeneracy – check!<\/p>\n

Elise* is 14 years old and lives in Springfield, Virginia, not too far south of Washington, DC, with her mom, her mother\u2019s boyfriend, and her mother\u2019s boyfriend\u2019s wife.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Child abuse – check!<\/p>\n

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Weirdos – check!<\/p>\n

This is probably the only interesting sentence in the whole piece:<\/p>\n

For example, Jessica and other polyamorists I speak with say there\u2019s very little discussion about the right for polyamorous marriage, because few in today\u2019s poly community believe government recognition of a union is a worthwhile goal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s how gays used to view marriage; look how quickly it became a fundamental human right and questioning it moved beyond the pale.<\/p>\n

(via Ben Sixsmith<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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