Q&A Forum - August/September 2016 (Best of Elise)

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Polyamory is where someone has multiple, and usually equal, long term relationships. The term “poly” (Greek) means “many” and “amor” (Latin) means “love”, thus polyamory means “many loves”. In today’s culture, those that practice polyamory refer to the term as “loving more than one”. This is different from cuckolding because cuckolding is primarily about a married woman having other sexual partners.

Usually with cuckolding, the woman has one life partner (her husband) but she has the freedom to enjoy multiple sexual partners. With polyamory, the woman would have multiple life partners. Taken out to the extreme where a culture would allow for it, polyamory could include a woman having multiple husbands. Since this is illegal in the United States, as well as in most cultures, those that practice polyamory usually will only “legally” marry one person but they live a lifestyle as if they are married to multiple partners.