The celebrated memoirist latest book, “Adult Braces,” has angered cultural reactionaries with its depiction of an open ...

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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 ...

I’m off this week. To tide you over until I’m back, the tech-savvy, at-risk youth pulled some classic “PUD” questions from the archives. A PUD, of course, is someone who is “poly under duress.” ...

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

New Yorkers are in a lusty state of affairs. With wintery temperatures below freezing and snow piling up to our eyeballs, the randy residents of the Big Apple and beyond are turning up the heat with ...

Andrea, a 43-year-old software engineer, was once open about being polyamorous. She told family and friends that she maintained multiple romantic relationships simultaneously, with the full knowledge ...

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 ...

A PUD, of course, is someone who is “poly under duress.” Because while some of us start out poly and some of us achieve poly, others have poly thrust upon ’em. These are their stories. — Dan I’m a ...