ISBN:
9781560232926
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (423 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Plural Loves : Designs for Bi and Poly Living
DDC:
306.76/5
Keywords:
Bisexuality
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Bisexuals
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
When limitations are removed from loving (and from lovemaking), new worlds of possibility are opened. This book presents insiders' viewpoints on bisexual/polyamorous living!With historical and theoretical perspectives, testimonials, reports from the field, and creative writing, Plural Loves: Designs for Bi and Poly Living examines group marriage, polyfidelity, cheating, solo-sex (and group solo-sex), utopian communities, tantric expression and sacred eroticism, transculturalization, and much more. This book explores the common ground shared by the bisexual and polyamorist movements, and addres
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; About the Contributors; Introduction; Plural Loves: Bi and Poly Utopias for a New Millennium; Part One: Perspectives; Sweet Dreams: Sexual Fantasies in J.K. Huysmans's Against the Grain and Leopoldo Alas's La Regenta; Introduction; Sexual Fantasies: Against the Grain; Sexual Fantasies: La Regenta; Conclusion; Other Kitchen Sinks, Other Drawing Rooms: Radical Designs for Living in Pre-1968 British Drama; The Power Dynamics of Cheating: Effects on Polyamory and Bisexuality; Introduction; The Cultural Response to Cheating
Description / Table of Contents:
Cheating Is Commonplace and ExpectedCheating as a Spectacle; Cheaters Are Marked and Punished; The Monogamy/Cheating System; The Conceptual Apparatus of Cheating Enforces Monogamous Standards; Cheating and Monogamy: A False Duality; Interpersonal Power Dynamics in the Monogamy/Cheating System; It Takes Two to Cheat; Cheating as a Way to Take Power and Create Personal Happiness; It Takes Three to Cheat; The Monogamy/Cheating System and the False Duality Between Couples and Three-Person Cheating Situations; Polyamory and Bisexuality Provide Three-Person Structures Not Modeled on Cheating
Description / Table of Contents:
Cheating and PolyamoryPolyamory and the Monogamy/Cheating System; Legal and Financial Penalties of Cheating and Polyamory; The Success of the Polyamory Movement and Its Escape of the Cheating Label; Cheating and Bisexuality; The Myth of the One True Love and Bisexual Invisibility; Concurrent Bisexuality Compared to Cheating; The Bi/Poly Alliance; Polyamory and Bisexuality Aid Each Other; Polyamory and the Production of Bisexual Visibility; Conclusions; Is Bisexuality Becoming Extinct?; Three and More in Love: Group Marriage or Integrating Commitment and Sexual Freedom
Description / Table of Contents:
Monogamy or Nonmonogamy?The Search for Sexual Freedom: From Church to Parliament; Promoting New Ways of Living Together; What Sociologists Say; "Do it!": The Communities Movement; Oneida; The Harrad Communities; Sandstone Retreat; Kerista; Twin Oaks; Komaja: The Community of the Future; The Philosophy; The Community; Polyamory and Bisexuality From the Viewpoint of Komaja; New Forms of Relationships for a New Society; The Tantric Groups as Examples of Zajednas; Children and Parenthood in Komaja; Makaja: Profile of a Spiritual Tantric Master; The Schooling; Komaja Spiritual Schooling
Description / Table of Contents:
The Art of LoveLove-Erotic Therapy; Conclusion; Remembering the Kiss . . .; A Glimpse of Harmony; A Bridge from Past to Present; A Rainbow of Relationships; Unraveling the Mystery; Making Right; Part Two: Testimonials and Reports from the Field; In the Forecourt of Paradise: A Report on the Possible Love-Erotic Future of Humankind; The Past; Cherry Blossom; The Reconciliation of Opposites; Take the Magic Wand of Life!; The Technology; What Makes the Wise Man Rise, Makes the Fool Fall; The Green-Eyed Monster; In the Forecourt of paradise …
Description / Table of Contents:
Love Is Born from the Pulse of God's Heart: An Insight into the Polyamorous Circle Kamala
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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