- Affairs: The Secret Lives of Women
Resource Type: Book
- All in the family
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Three parents who have made Canadian history by winning a court's recognition as a legal family are still adjusting to their status as pioneers for polyamorous rights.
- Americans talk about love: How we chose an open marriage
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Bowe presents an American couple's conversation revealing their history of polyamory.
- Anxious Pleasures (excerpt)
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1986
- Beyond Monogamy
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
A newsletter dedicated to exploring and facilitating alternatives to traditional monogamous relationships. There is a collection of these newsletters from 1980 through 1982 in the Connexions Archive.
- Breaking the Bonds
The Realities of Sexually Open Relationships
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
An examination of the lives of (American) people involved in socially and/or sexually open relationships.
- The Civilized Couple's Guide to Extra-Marital Adventure
Resource Type: Book
- Connexions Library: Sexuality Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on sexuality.
- Elaine and Bill: Portrait of a Marriage
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
- Email from a Married, Female Ashley Madison User
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The private lives and sexual choices of fully formed adults are usually very complicated and thus impossible to understand -- and certainly impossible to judge -- without wallowing around in the most intimate details, none of which are any of your business. That's a very good reason not to try to sit in judgment and condemn from afar.
- The Ethical Slut
A guide to infinite sexual possibilities
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
A guide for anyone who dreams of having all the sex and love and friendship they want. Explores the skills and issues of a life beyond tradiational lifetime monogamy, from scheduling dates to handling jealousy, finding partners, resolving conflict, and raising children.
- Group Marriage
A Study of Contemporary Multilateral Marriage
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
A study of more than 100 group marriages in the United States, exploring the psychology and sociology of this form of marital relationship. The study looks at how group marriages are established, who enters into such relationships, how they communicate, how children and adults relate, how conflicts are resolved.
- Group marriage
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Is a form of polyamory in which more than one man and more than one woman form a family unit.
- Half a man beats none
In Russia and Mongolia, women don't shy away from polygamy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Investigation into the socio-economic motivations behind the movement to legalize polygamy. There are fewer men than women in Russia and Mongolia due to economic migration and alcoholism. Both urban and rural women choose relationships that look like polygamy.
- The Harrad Experiment
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1967
- A History of Mistresses
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
- Interview with Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1990
Jeff Orchard interviews Ulli Diemer about socialism, capitalism, life, and social change.
- Intimate Friendships
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
Examines various forms of intimate relationship, from monogamy, to monogamy with adultery, to polygyny, polyandry and group relationships.
- Kerista
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A religion founded in 1956 by John Peltz "Bro Jud" Presmont. Throughout much of its history, Kerista was centered on the ideals of polyfidelity (called "responsible non-monogamy") and creation of intentional communities.
- Loving More
New Models for Relationships
Resource Type: Website
Organization and resource for people who who wish to move beyond traditional monogamy.
- Loving More
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1991
A newsletter published by PEP (Polyfidelitious Educational Productions), a group marriage journal and network. Previous title was PEPTALK; name was changed to Loving More starting with the Spring 1991 issue (Issue #26), and to Loving More Magazine ins 1994. Some copies of this publication are in the Connexions Archive.
See also the Loving More website www.lovemore.com.
- The Mistress Condition
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
A look at some [American] women who live outside of conventional marriage.
- Monogamous Voles
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2004
Vole reversal.
- Non-monogamy
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A blanket term covering several different types of interpersonal relationships in which some or all participants have multiple marital, sexual, and/or romantic partners.
- Open Marriage
A New Life Style for Couples
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
The authors propose open marriage as a way to help couples realize that there can be both relatedness and freedom in marriage, and that freedom, with the growth and responsibility it entails, can be the basis for intimacy and love.
- Open marriage
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Open marriage typically refers to a marriage in which the partners agree that each may engage in extramarital sexual relationships, without this being regarded as infidelity.
- Open relationship
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An open relationship is a relationship in which the participants are free to have emotional, spiritual and/or physical relationships with other partners.
- Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
Drawing on in-depth interviews with over a hundred women and men, Opening Up explores the real-life benefits and challenges of all styles of open relationships — from partnered non-monogamy to solo polyamory.
- PEPCON
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1990
- Peptalk
Periodical profile published 1989
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Polyamory
Resource Type: Website
- Polyamory and Polygamy: Is the Media Right?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
There are a few of repeated themes emerging in many of the articles railing against polyamorous marriage.
- Polyamory-Related Books - Open Marriage
Resource Type: Website
- Polyfidelity
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A form of polyamorous group marriage wherein all members consider each other to be primary partners and agree to be sexual only with other members of this group.
- Promiscuity
Resource Type: Article
In human sexual behavior, promiscuity denotes sex with relatively many partners. In polygamy it is distinguished from promiscuity.
- Proposition 31
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
- Radical Digressions 3
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2006
- Rebellion of Yale Marrat
Resource Type: Book
- Responsible Polyamory
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
- Sex and Marriage in Utopian Communities in Nineteenth Century America
Nineteenth-Century America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
A look at original approaches to sex and marraige in the utopian communities of nineteenth-century America. Many of these communities abolished monogamy and individualism and sought ways of dealing with the sexual life of the group as a whole.
- SexSources.ca
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2017
A web portal featuring sexuality resources: articles, websites, books. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- The Sexual Life of Catherine M.
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
- She Came to Stay
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1943
- Swinging
Resource Type: Article
Swinging or partner swapping (sometimes referred to as the swinging lifestyle or simply the lifestyle) is a non-monogamous behaviour, in which partners in a committed relationship agree, as a couple, for both partners to engage in sexual activities with other people, sometimes referred to as recreational or social sex.
- Take your partners
Resource Type: Article
Monogamy is not necessarily the best policy.
- Think the Left Won the Culture War? Think Again
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
With the recent AshleyMadison leak and Gawker.com's notorious naming and shaming of an obscure, married publishing executive, deBoer questions who really won in this culture war.
- 3 adults in polyamorous relationship declared legal parents by N. L. court
St. John's court ruling believed to be legal first for Canada
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
In what is believed to be a legal first in Canada, a court in Newfoundland and Labrador has recognized three unmarried adults as the legal parents of a child born within their "polyamorous" family. Polyamorous relationships are legal in Canada, unlike bigamy and polygamy, which involve people in two or more marriages.
- When Will the Media Really Get Polyamory?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Why do the media so often miss the mark when they write articles or do a feature on polyamory? Why do so many approach the subject with a ready-made idea of what they are looking for?
- Why Not Have Sex With People Who Aren't Your Partner?
Infidelity is treated as selfish, while monogamy is celebrated. But what's so great about living in self-denial?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Although open relationships are not as shocking a concept today as they were 50 years ago, they’re still regarded with overwhelming skepticism and even disdain. The usual assumption is that polyamorous people are selfish, immature, incapable of commitment, and their primary relationship is therefore doomed to failure.
- You and I...Searching for Tomorrow
Resource Type: Book
Letters to author Robert H. Rimmer about non-traditional sexual experiences and explorations, such as group marriage.
Experts on Non-monogamy in the Sources Directory
- Loving More
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