West Hollywood moves toward legal protections for polyamorous relationships, which can face systemic barriers in housing, ...

The celebrated memoirist’s latest book, Adult Braces, has angered cultural reactionaries with its depiction of an open marriage. But it also falls into the trap of wanting to represent an idealized ...

West Hollywood’s so-called “throuples” are pushing an anti-discrimination law to protect polyamorous partnerships. WeHo City ...

In the history of sexual dissent, the relationship between politics and sexual freedom defies simplistic categorization.

Many people are set on monogamy and the idea of being in a non-monogamous relationship seems absurd. But times are changing and while it may not be your cup of tea, more and more people are choosing ...

Lindy West would like you to believe she is perfectly happy in her throuple, living with her husband and another woman. But she’s clearly coping. The comedian’s new book is proof that she’s given into ...

Her efforts to come to terms with polyamory are couched as a political project—part of being an open-minded liberal—as much as a romantic one. And although she describes her husband as a “genius” and ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. For many of us, our mental picture of romantic love is a couple. After all, a firmly ...

In the context of polyamorous relationships, women are sometimes able to regain their sexual subjectivity, transgress standard gender roles and power relationships and recreate their own social roles.

A Florida couple married for 20 years say opening their relationship helped strengthen, not weaken, their bond. Sometimes, all a relationship needs to stay strong is to break the rules. A Florida ...

In this interview, therapist and popular podcaster Sarah Stuteville answers essential questions about different ways of living a non-monogamous life. Stuteville draws on distinctive expertise about ...