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  Four Steps To Opening A Marriage

  Being in a successful open marriage is about four things: 1) finding the support you need, both within your marriage and from the people around you; 2) accepting that jealousy is a manufactured emotion that, with enough conscious effort, you can learn to let go of; 3) treating an open marriage as you would a "traditional" one—that is, normalizing it as a choice for everyone; and 4) overcoming ...

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  Suzanne Portnoy: Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Jefferson: A Sex Blogger Fights for Custody of his Kids

  "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." The phrase came to me this morning while musing over the predicament of my friend, the sex blogger Jefferson. Because his ex-wife recently discovered he is bisexual, he is now fighting for custody of his kids. It's an ironic twist that the man who took as his pseudonym Jefferson, in homage to freedom-loving Thomas Jefferson, should have that man's ...

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  The Daily Californian - Sharing the Wealth

  I'm told that if something seems too good to be true, it probably is. That's likely why I've never given polyamory a second thought. Openly dating two (or more) people without drama or moral conundrums sounds great, but there's got to be a catch, right? Further research, however, indicates that there isn't, really. I mean, yeah, it's certainly not for everyone, but you can't really accuse ...

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  Nine Signs That You’re Dating A Narcissist

  How To Know If You're Dating A Narcissist

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  30 Places To Have Sex Before You're 30

  30 Places To Have Sex Before You're 30

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  Practical Polyamory: John Edwards, Cheating and the Ethics of Polyamory

  Certainly our society's fetish for monolithic, life long monogamy as the be-all and end-all of relationships creates fertile ground for cheating. This doesn't let the cheater off the ethical hook, but it does go a long way toward explaining why people in western society - and especially in the puritanical United States - cheat in such significant numbers. With those cultural underpinnings in ...

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  Polyamory: Family First's 'Phantom Menace'

  Christian Right lobby group Family First and pathetic gutter "journalist" Ian Wishart have attacked Labour's SocialDevelopment Minister, Ruth Dyson, over a non-existent social policy 'speech' that she never made 'endorsing' polygamy and polyamory.

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  Like the love triangle in 'Vicky Cristina,' real-life trios see all sides

  On Friday, Scarlett Johansson, Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem hit the big screen as a trio of volatile lovers in Woody Allen's "Vicky Cristina Barcelona." In the movie, Bardem kisses Johansson. Johansson kisses Cruz. Then, they all fall for each other. But in real life, far from the jaunty shores of Allen's Barcelona, the mechanics of a "three-way-tionship" are more complex.

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  Dating In A Triad, A Polyamourous Relationship

  I really didn't know what polyamory was until I fell into it at 27. I was arguing one day with a couple I'd been sleeping with for about a month, when BAM! I ended up in a three-way relationship. I've always been open-minded as far as sexual relationships were concerned and was sleeping with a male/female couple. That day, Dan was being overly critical of Ellie. I told them the nit-picking was ...

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  Using the Squat Toilet

  Rule One: Exhaust all other possibilities.

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  Mapping Iran’s Online Public: Politics and Culture in the Persian Blogosphere | Berkman Center

  This case study is part of a series produced by the <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/publications/2008/Mapping_Irans_Online_Public/Iranian_blogosphere_map>Internet and Democracy project. The initial studies include three of the most frequently cited examples of the Internet's influence on democracy. The first case looks at the user-generated news site, OhmyNews, and its impact on the 2002 ...

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