This medicine wheel shows the different types of relationships. In the North is open paired sharing, which is when multiple couples choose to share a home together and marry or commit to each other. They may be heterosexual or bisexual, and they enjoy the commitment and safe sex of the partners within the group marriage. In the East is celibacy - not abstinence. Celibacy means to celebrate yourself, to know your own body's orgasticness.
Abstinence is to refrain from any type of masturbation or self pleasuring.
In the South is the triad relationship. This is when two individuals of one sex and one individual of the opposite sex decide to create a sexual relationship with partners sharing equally, i.e. 2 men and 1 woman or 2 women and 1 man. Their sexual engagement may be heterosexual or bisexual. A triad can also be with a gay or lesbian preference and it is three individuals of the same sexual preference committing into a relationship. In the Center of the medicine wheel is free dancing or dating.