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  • "Polyamorous" isn't synonymous with "open" or "casual," from what I've seen -- it truly depends on the household in question and how the individuals in question have agreed to meet the others' needs and by that I mean "needs" in general - not just sexual.

    Philocrites: We have no position. Yet. 2004

  • The band dug deep into the vaults of their first EP for the hard-rocking "Polyamorous" and Burnley and Fink took seats center stage for an amazingly credible cover of "Stairway to Heaven," before settling into the hits from their previous album.

    Berks county news 2010

  • The Unitarian Universalists for Polyamorous Awareness hope to make their faith tradition the first to recognize and bless polyamorous relationships.

    Elizabeth Marquardt: Get Ready for Group Marriage Elizabeth Marquardt 2011

  • Polyamorous lifestyles, in my opinion, are a break from social constructs, which forms the belief that opposite-sex people cannot be friends, and they allow me to have a connection with friends simply because they are friends and have a deep love.

    Amy Shiner: Polyamory: What Is Legal, Ethical And Comfortable? Amy Shiner 2011

  • Polyamorous familial situations are also not uncommon today, as people learn that loving another doesn't mean the lover is enslaved or owned by their partner and discover in themselves the capacity to love more than one or two other individuals at a time.

    On Same-Sex Couples and Catfish Derbies 2009

  • Polyamorous lifestyles, in my opinion, are a break from social constructs, which forms the belief that opposite-sex people cannot be friends, and they allow me to have a connection with friends simply because they are friends and have a deep love.

    Amy Shiner: Polyamory: What Is Legal, Ethical And Comfortable? Amy Shiner 2011

  • The Unitarian Universalists for Polyamorous Awareness hope to make their faith tradition the first to recognize and bless polyamorous relationships.

    Elizabeth Marquardt: Get Ready for Group Marriage Elizabeth Marquardt 2011

  • Polyamorous familial situations are also not uncommon today, as people learn that loving another doesn't mean the lover is enslaved or owned by their partner and discover in themselves the capacity to love more than one or two other individuals at a time.

    On Same-Sex Couples and Catfish Derbies 2009

  • Polyamorous people, some would have you believe, have emotionally evolved beyond jealousy.

    Menachem Kaiser: Kink and the City 2009

  • Scroll down to the headline: “Trinitarian Tango: Divine Perichoretic Fecundity in Polyamorous Relations”.

    The Anglican Church of Canada: the argument for Triad Marriages « Anglican Samizdat 2009

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