Designer relationships
Subtitle: a guide to happy monogamy, positive polyamory, and optimistic open relationships
By: Mark A. Michaels and Patricia Johnson
Contributors: Johnson, Patricia, 1964- author
Edition: First Edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9781627781473; 9781627781497
Subjects: Open marriage; Non-monogamous relationships; Dating (Social customs)
Description: Contemporary relationships are in a state of rapid evolution. These changes can and should empower people with the opportunity to develop partnerships based on their own sexualities, understandings, and agreements. This makes it possible to create what Kenneth Haslam, founder of the Kinsey Institute's Polyamory Archive, has called "designer relationships." Designer relationships may encompass: people who bond emotionally but not sexually; people who agree to be non-exclusive; single people who have occasional lovers or friends with benefits; multiple partner configurations where long-term bonds exist among all or some; partnerships in which people are kinky and that make room to explore kink.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: What is a designer relationship?; title: What is monogramy?; title: Mononormative myths; title: Misconceptions about consensual monmonogamy; title: Relationship skills for everyone; title: For couples and others; title: Ethical considerations in designer relationships.