Domination & submission _ the BDSM relationship handbook ( PDFDrive )

multiple partners on a casual basis. A polyamorous person may have multiple
sex partners, but he can be just as faithful and loving and attentive to his two (or
three or more) partners as a monogamous person can be to his one.
This faithfulness to multiple partners is called polyfidelity, and a polyamorous
person who practices it is called polyfidelous.
Promiscuity and similar conditions, such as love or sex addiction, occur about as
often in polyamorous individuals as they do in monogamous people.
Another thing that polyamory isn’t, is a value judgment. Polyamory isn’t
objectively good or bad, right or wrong. It
is simply a description of how some people think, feel, and love.
You are either polyamorous, or you are not. It is virtually impossible to
turn a monogamist into a polyamorist, and vice versa. Yes, there are things that
a person can learn that can make polyamory easier or more viable for someone
who has polyamorous feelings, but doesn’t yet possess the skills
and knowledge to make it work in their relationship, but you simply cannot turn
a monogamous brain into a poly one. Polyamory isn’t for everyone, and anyone
who believes and preaches the notion that polyamory should be
universally practiced is just as wrong-headed as those who are moral crusaders
for monogamy.
Even for the small minority of people whose brains are wired for it, being poly
in a predominantly monogamous world isn’t easy. Since the great majority of
people in western cultures equate
polyamory with promiscuity, adultery and cheating, the result is a natural
tendency to shun or condemn anyone associated with or
practicing polyamory. It is rather common, even in these supposedly
“enlightened” times, to hear people toeing the politically correct line that
“the government shouldn’t try to tell us whom we can and can’t love; people