Three in love
Subtitle: ménages à trois from ancient to modern times
By: Barbara Foster, Michael Foster and Letha Hadady.
Contributors: Foster, Michael, 1937-; Hadady, Letha.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
Published: 1997
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 450
Subjects: Group sex -- History.
Description: Barbara Foster, Michael Foster, and Letha Hadady are writers and scholars who themselves are involved in an ongoing, loving partnership and are thus remarkably well suited as commentators on this unconventional lifestyle. In this book based on extensive research, they trace the menage a trois over the centuries - both in real life and as portrayed in art - and offer a deft and compelling portrait of threefold love.

In addition, they reveal the truth about the world's best-known trios, from biblical patriarch Abraham, his wife Sarah, and the handmaiden Hagar to Henry and June Miller and Anais Nin and even Beat writer Jack Kerouac and Neal and Carolyn Cassady.

The authors differentiate clearly between a love triangle and a menage a trois: the "bloody" triangle generally springs out of an affair or adultery, and one of the three is excluded. In a menage, on the other hand, all three participants have equal status and input, and, most important the relationship is entered into by mutual decision and consent.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 431-440) and index.