>>>Me, I find polyamory much too messy in the Real World, though it does
>>>make for happy fiction.
>>
>>But, it's also fun in small doses, when you will never see the people
>>again...
>
>That's not polyamory. That's just sleeping with lots of people.
>Polyamory, as I understand it, is the act of being romantically in
>love with more than one person at a given time, in a continuous,
>long-term sort of way.

>>--
>>-Pasha

I've been observing "binding relationships" (not to be confused with bondage) lately. A tight binding relationship is one that is difficult/painful to get out of, and a loose binding relationship is is one that is easy to get out of.

Given that about 50% of marriages in the US end in divorce, I have to suggest that this culture has difficulty with a one-to-one tight binding relationship. I can only guess that adding more people into such a thing would further destablize the relationship. Risky.

--rR