SPN Poly Bingo Lexicon

## Lexicon

Get a term on your card that you don’t know?  Here are definitions of the poly-specific terms we’re using as prompts.  Let us know if you have further questions!

* **Adelphogamy** - *(Literally, adelphos brother + gamos marriage)* A specific form of polyandry, practiced historically and occasionally still practiced in some portions of Tibet and Nepal, in which a set of brothers is married to the same woman.
* **Adult Buffet** - A specific type of group sex in which a group of consenting adults gets together for the purpose of sex, and each person in the group is free to have sex with any of the other members of the group he or she chooses.
* **Bigamy** - *(Literally, bi two + gamos marriage)* A relationship in which one person is married to two spouses, regardless of the sex of those spouses.
* **Bipoly** - Of or related to a person who is both bisexual and polyamorous.
* **Candaulism** - Sexual arousal from watching one’s spouse have sex with or engage in sexual activity with another person.
* **Cluster Marriage** - A polyamorous relationship in which two or more married couples cohabitate and exchange partners.
* **Compersion** - A feeling of joy when a partner invests in and takes pleasure from another romantic or sexual relationship.
* **Cross-Couple** - Of or relating to activities between a member of one couple and a member of another couple; as, for example, cross-couple relationship, a relationship between one person who is part a couple and a second person who is part of another couple.
* **Cuddle Party** - A social gathering of adults which encourages consensual physical affection, such as cuddling, massage, and other forms of physical expression, but which forbids overt sexual activity or sexual stimulation.
* **Four-Cornered Marriage** - A group marriage with exactly four adult members; usually but not always a group marriage with two men and two women.
* **Group Marriage** - A relationship in which three or more people consider themselves married to one another; in the polyamory community, most often a relationship involving more than one man and more than one woman, who may live together, share finances, raise children together, and otherwise share those responsibilities normally associated with marriage.
* **Hot Bi Babe** - *(Also called Unicorn)* A bisexual person, usually though not always female, who is willing to join an existing couple, often with the presumption that this person will date and become sexually involved with both members of that couple, and not demand anything or do anything which might cause problems or inconvenience to that couple. The term is often used to be dismissive of a couple seen to be only superficially polyamorous, as ‘They’re just looking for a hot bi babe.’
* **Key Party** - A specific type of play party, usually attended by couples, in which each male deposits his keys into a container as he arrives. As the guests leave, each female draws a set of keys at random from the container, then goes home with the male to which they belong that night.
* **Menage a Trois** - *(Literally, French, house of three)* Sexual activity involving three people.
* **One Penis Policy** - An arrangement within a polyamorous relationship in which a man is allowed to have multiple female partners, each of whom is allowed to have sex with other women but forbidden to have any other male partners.
* **One Vagina Policy** - An arrangement within a polyamorous relationship in which a woman is allowed to have multiple male partners, each of whom is allowed to have sex with other men but forbidden to have any other e partners.
* **Parallel Play** - Of or related to two (or more) couples or groups having sex in the same room, without members from one couple or group having sexual contact with members of another couple or group.
* **Play Party** - In the swinger community, a party, often hosted at a swing club but sometimes hosted at a private residence, at which swingers get together for the purpose of recreational sex.
* **Polyamory** - *(Literally, poly many + amor love)* The state or practice of maintaining multiple sexual and/or romantic relationships simultaneously, with the full knowledge and consent of all the people involved.
* **Polyandry** - *(Literally, poly many + andros man)* The state or practice of having multiple wedded husbands at the same time.
* **Polygamy** - *(Literally, poly many + gamos marriage)* The state or practice of having multiple wedded spouses at the same time, regardless of the sex of those spouses.
* **Polygyny** - *(Literally, poly many + gynos woman)* The state or practice of having multiple wedded wives at the same time.
* **Poly Triad** - A polyamorous relationship composed of three people.
* **Poly Vee** - A polyamorous relationship involving three people, in which one person is romantically or sexually involved with two partners who are not romantically or sexually involved with each other.
* **Puppy-Pile Poly** - Polyamorous relationships in which all the people involved are to some degree physically and/or romantically involved with one another, with the implication that the people involved may share sex and/or sleeping space (hence, “all in one puppy pile”).
* **Sororal Polygyny** - A form of polygyny where a man marries two or more women who are sisters.
* **Swingers** - The practice of having multiple sexual partners outside of an existing romantic relationship, most often with the understanding that the focus of those relationships is primarily sexual rather than romantic or emotionally intimate.