"Strangers on the Internet" Podcast Episode 33: Bisexual Erasure and Polyamory Rights

For Prof. Nancy Marcus, the personal is the political

The thirty-third episode (Apple Podcasts link here and Spotify link here) of "Strangers on the Internet" with co-host and psychologist Michelle Lange features Prof. Nancy Marcus from the California Western School of Law.

Nancy tells Irina and Michelle about her own life as an out bisexual and polyamorous person, as well as about about her public writings and advocacy on these topics. While bisexuality has increasingly become more accepted, the same is less true for the various forms of ethical non-monogamy.

Nancy discusses how to communicate about difficult issues such as jealousy in poly relationships, but also describes the legal battles that continue to plague the LGBTQIA+ community. Come find out how Nancy has found happiness in unexpected ways and continues fighting for the right of others to do the same!

Comments

[Frank Drackman]

Polyamory's all I need, not being able to please more than just one woman!

[Dr. Ed 2]

The gristly, ghastly, train wreck of American culture.

[John F. Carr]

LGBTQIAP+

22 more to go.

[The Margrave of Azilia]

Maybe we'll end up in a Huxleyan Brave New World where the population problem is solved with test-tube babies raised by the state, and the people can have nonprocreative sex to amuse themselves? Plus drugs, lots of drugs.

[Frank Drackman]

"people can have nonprocreative sex to amuse themselves"

I've been having nonprocreative sex to amuse myself since 1973

Frank "wearing glasses since 1974"

[Dr. Ed 2]

ROTF,L.....

[F.D. Wolf]

They should move the "T" to the front of "LGBTQ" because they are definitely the ones driving that train.

[John F. Carr]

Dave Chappelle has a good segment about the alphabet people sharing a car. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHpnc0oDauc#t=180

[Commenter_XY]

Ethical non-manogamy. Quite the phrase.

[Dr. Ed 2]

"Slut" a promiscuous person : someone who has many sexual partners—usually used of a woman.

[Bubba Jones]

Marriage fails 1/2 the time.

“Long term relationships” at least as often.

Polyamory is just roommates who fuck. NTTIAWWT But we don’t need a pretentious discussion of it.

[Bubba Jones]

Let’s please recall that it was considered a disingenuous red herring to suggest that gay marriage was a gateway to polyamory.

[Jon Rowe]

I’m going to continue to “distinguish” between the two as though it were not a gateway.

Like what you said above about the roommate dynamic. I don’t care if Jack, Janet and Chrissy want to have a kinky threesome. But there is good reason, separate from same sex marriage, to permit Jack to have to choose one (and nothing would stop him from having the other as a mistress).

Where ever polygamy exists — and it’s quite a traditional form of marriage — it’s in the Old Testament for crying out loud; it’s invariably with rare exception one man, multi wives and it leads to a shortage of marriageable women for the displaced men.

This is part of human nature and I don’t think it has changed.

[Toranth]

Gay marriage should have led to legal poly, because the government has no business regulating it in the first place. (/rant)

That said, your post made me go look for male/female ratios in polyamorous relationships. And wow, did I get an eyeful.
Are you talking Vs vs triads, poly-fi vs unicorns, are FMF and FFM the same, and oh thank GOD that there are image filters on today's search engines.

The best I could find is a Psychology Today article that claims that 40% of poly-active people surveyed were in a relationship that involved at least 2 males. Make of that what you will.