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Re: Open relationship?

Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2017 2:17 pm
by fiby41
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Societal implications of legalizing polygamy

Re: Open relationship?

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 9:49 am
by 7Wannabe5
@fiby41:

I would assume this chart actually visualizes the implications of polygyny (many wives), as opposed to polygamy (many spouses gender-neutrality?) I would also imagine that a similar chart for monogamy would show less movement, and a thicker middle, but would also need sub-model of hidden black-market (clandestine affairs, prostitution, pornography, etc.) for complete accuracy? I would also suggest that a chart for open polyamory (many spouses and/or other relationships, gender-equality) would exhibit a complex, resilient, multi-dimensional web with all sorts of flows up, down and around.

Somewhere in the Quran, something is written along the lines of "There are many good or valid or acceptable reasons to pick a wife. Beauty, money, family connections or shared-faith. Shared faith is the best reason. " If both men and women are doing the picking of up to 4 different partners for 4 different reasons (maybe co-parent, long-term lover, hobby-cuddle-buddy, and next-new-thang?) the possibilities become immense!

Re: Open relationship?

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 12:55 pm
by fiby41
fiby41 wrote:
Mon Sep 11, 2017 2:17 pm
Societal implications of legalizing polygamy
https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1 ... &source=48

Re: Open relationship?

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 2:13 pm
by fiby41
7Wannabe5 wrote:
Tue Sep 12, 2017 9:49 am
I would assume this chart actually visualizes the implications of polygyny (many wives), as opposed to polygamy (many spouses gender-neutrality?)
Polygamy only.
If dowry is the cost women pay to marry up, then women of high socioeconomic status pick mates off the top of the male dominance hierarchy.

The overarching argument is:
1 Muslims are the only group to be constitutionally allowed multiple wives
2 historic practice is used as a justification for it
3 if historic precedence is being used as a justification for modern practices (it shouldn't) then examples from Hindu history can be used to justify polygamy

Example, the Pandava brothers married Kunti in the epic Mahabharata. Swayamvar is a competitive event in which men compete for the hand of the bride-to-be in marriage. Although Arjuna had won Kunti's swayamvar and Kunti approved of him, when they went to his mother, who was in forest-exile, to seek her blessings, she was engrossed in meditation.

Arjuna: Look, I want you see...
Mom: What's there to see? I'm busy, share among yourselves as always...
Now kiss... One at a time, please.
Somewhere in the Quran, something is written along the lines of "There are many good or valid or acceptable reasons to pick a wife. Beauty, money, family connections or shared-faith
1 Muhammad's first wife was a lot older & richer than he. She died soon after (childless) survived by only Muhammad who inherited all her wealth.
2 Pedophile: Ayesha (1 of 13) was married to Muhammad at 6 who consumated (=had sex) the marriage at 9.
Shared faith is the best reason.
3 Love jihad: Marrying a nonbeliever is forbidden, unless the spouse converts first, before marriage, of course.
4 Having sex with that which your right hand posseses ie. a slave, is okay
5 Nikah: One night marriage
6 And on top of that you can have 4 wives... the possibilities become immense!

Re: Open relationship?

Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2017 9:16 am
by 7Wannabe5
@fiby41:

Trust me. I am no advocate of the practice of allowing men 4 wives and women only 1 husband, OR the practice prior to Islam of allowing men as many wives as they wanted. However, I would note that the number 4 was a limitation set by the religion, not a recommendation. Obviously, cuckoo-bananas modern sects of any religion will make use of any misinterpretation of original texts that best serve their purposes.

Anyways, Muhammads' first wife was older and wealthier, but she did not die childless. They had daughters. One of whom was the "mother" of the Shia lineage. Conversion was not always required for marriage, and Muhammad did have a son who only survived to be around 3 years old with a wife who remained Christian. Think of the possibilities for different courses of human history if that child had survived!

That said, I must admit that I was wrongly assuming that the term "hypergamy" referred to females choosing to have multiple sexual partners, not the practice of marrying up the ladder. There is also very little research into what the "natural" choices or practices of females might be over the long run in a situation in which they are granted full legal status. What I am attempting to add to the discussion is the consideration of the possibility that strict monogamy is also an example of "historic precedence being used to justify modern practice." Determining social status of an individual in modern American is a bit of conundrum, but there is some evidence that when women achieve full economic parity at a fairly high level of affluence, and are given leeway to engage in multiple relationships, they switch over to choosing additional males more on the basis of masculine beauty, just like men have always done historically. As the lyrics to the country song go:
A poor girl wants to marry
And a rich girl wants to flirt
A rich man goes to college
And a poor man goes to work

Re: Open relationship?

Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 1:06 am
by fiby41
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Explanation: punchline is statement of the Pythagoras theorem.

Re: Open relationship?

Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 12:33 pm
by liberty
wood wrote:
Tue May 03, 2016 6:10 am
Have any of you been in a monogamous relationship and then made it open/poly? Why and how did you do it? (Cheating doesn't count as a permanent solution!)
Yes, after a few weeks of prison feeling I asked to make it "open" so that I could fuck around again.

Re: Open relationship?

Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2017 4:06 am
by fiby41
Is one partner not the optimal solution to the relationship problem? What reasons there may be for wanting more or temporary relations?

Reasons I can think of : Less commitment, more mobility, primarily sexual reasons, infertility of primary partner or self so you seek secondary partner, wanting more children than what your partner wants or can afford/is willing to rear, thril of it,... Anything else I'm missing?

If one wants to maximize (maximization problem instead of optimization) children, subject to these constraints:

1 It is advised to have a space of 3 years between having two children for the health of both the mother and the children.

This way the wife will be free to have another child when the former child will be put in nursery/kindergarten. Assuming it took 3 months to get pregnant, rounding off, we have 4 years (3mo+9mo+3yrs) before she can get pregnant again

2 Not more than one wife is pregnant in any given year, so that caretaking can be done and expenses met

So it will require 4 fertile wives of child bearing age in an open relationship with one man with average sperm count, provided not more than one such quarter wife is pregnant in any given year

Note that I'm not being an -ist as it is one man having multiple wifes and not the other way round. Even if one woman had m husbands in our above model, she would still have 1 child every 4 years, so it won't be the maximum solution. Even in real life, number of women is the limiting factor for how many children can be borne at a time as n women and m men can have not more than n children every 9 months (disregarding health), but the opposite is not true, because the value of m is immaterial in a society where open relationships are practised (but matters in a monoamous society) provided n & m are both natural numbers.

Re: Open relationship?

Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2017 8:22 am
by Jason
In the history of "ideas that sound great at first but eventually lead to stimulant induced bludgeonings, post-orgy vehicular homicides, cut off penises discovered in scrap metal yards, divorces, broken friendships, domestic disturbance incidents, unwanted children, semi-orchestrated daytime talk show fights, pulled out weaves abandoned in fast food parking lots, arguments about whether fucking each other's relatives is acceptable after fucking each other's relatives has already transpired, naked people seen running down public roads, revenge porn and personal emotional trauma" I think open relationships rises to the top of the list.

Re: Open relationship?

Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2017 11:50 am
by liberty
fiby41 wrote:
Sat Oct 14, 2017 4:06 am
Is one partner not the optimal solution to the relationship problem?
Is one stock in a portfolio an optional solution for investing? No. Because maybe that one company go bankrupt. Maybe it was a really bad company after all, but you didn't understand that when you analized it?

The same thing goes with relationship: Maybe the person you thought was great was an asshole after all. Maybe she scammed you, or fucked another man without you knowing (assuming you had a closed relationship). Diversification in relationships is good in the same way as in investing: If one of the partners turned out to be very bad, you have always others to go to.

Have fun!

Re: Open relationship?

Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2017 12:04 pm
by Jason
liberty wrote:
Sun Oct 15, 2017 11:50 am
but you didn't understand that when you analized it?
In my experience, that's something you should discuss with your partner beforehand.

Re: Open relationship?

Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2017 1:52 pm
by liberty
@Jason, what I mean is that a person who looks to be great can be an evil scammer. I don't want to lay my life in hands of one other person... That's why I prefer to be single or in some kind of poly relationship.

Re: Open relationship?

Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2017 2:14 pm
by Jason
@liberty

I was j/k'ing.

I understand your viewpoint. You want to spread the risk.

But trading in and out of stocks and trading in and out of relationships would seem to have the same issues: high fees, emotional response to short term gains and losses, you could just be diversifying amongst dogs etc.. Warren Buffet does a lot of research on the companies before he buys. As he says, your buying the company not the stock, you are making a commitment through good and bad times. Relationships, your buying the cow not the milk. It doesn't mean you won't make mistakes, but hopefully you'll learn over time. That being said, Warren Buffet, was from a certain standpoint, a polygamist for most of his life.

But ultimately it comes down to what your comfortable with. Marriage has benefited me personally, so I am more inclined to defend the one partner route.

Re: Open relationship?

Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2017 2:54 pm
by liberty
@Jason, I think long term relationships are great, but that is not opposed to being poly. As poly you can for example have "friends with benefits" where you have a friendship + sex. Or just separate open relationships. You can even have a closed relationship with more than 2 partners, example: 2 bisexual women and 1 straight man, 3 gay men etc.

I'm glad marriage have benefited you! But you never know if it would have benefited you even more with multiple partners ;)

Re: Open relationship?

Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2017 4:23 pm
by baska
liberty wrote:
Sun Oct 15, 2017 2:54 pm
You can even have a closed relationship with more than 2 partners, example: 2 bisexual women and 1 straight man, 3 gay men etc.
You have to have energy for all this people and be outgoing. Just thinking about them would exhaust me. For die-hard introvert it's not mentally sustainable. Recovery will take 3 times as much and quality alone time would suffer.Instead sleeping with multipartners I will sleep out from them. Thats for people people thing.

Re: Open relationship?

Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2017 1:32 am
by liberty
@basko, yeah you are maybe right there - this type of relationship is maybe more for extroverts. On the other hand: what if your partners are introverted too? Then you can all have much time alone between the interaction.

Re: Open relationship?

Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2017 5:23 am
by Jason
liberty wrote:
Sun Oct 15, 2017 2:54 pm
I'm glad marriage have benefited you! But you never know if it would have benefited you even more with multiple partners ;)
See, this type of comment leads me to believe that you, as most people who prefer this type of life, just want to fuck around with multiple people and the decision to be poly is not really based on some stock market analogy or thought out calculus. Its really just rooted in hedonism. And I don't mind. Believe me, I've been there. Just call it what it is.

Re: Open relationship?

Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2017 7:30 am
by pukingRainbows
liberty wrote:
Sun Oct 15, 2017 11:50 am

Is one stock in a portfolio an optional solution for investing? No.
I think a better comparison would be jobs rather than investing because the former requires much more effort on a daily basis.

You could be a taxi driver, optometrist, freelance writer, piano player and programmer and it would arguably hedge your bets in one way, but also limit your success in another way. But it could work and it's all about your goals really.

I'm interested in the depth of the human bond and so multiple partners would work against that for me.

Re: Open relationship?

Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2017 7:45 am
by 7Wannabe5
@Jason:

Hedonism (the theory of ethics towards maximization of pleasure) and the Calculus, or more accurately Systems Theory, are not by any means mutually exclusive. Also, the individuals with whom I am acquainted who seem to be naturally tending towards polyamoury (as opposed to polygamy-AKA-just fucking around) are also the least aggressive, because they are attempting to teach themselves to share one of the hardest things to share, which is the variety of love that is like the love of a perfect mother who has abandoned you at age 3 for the new baby she now feeds at her breast. Your jealousy and rage is immense. You writhe about on the floor kicking your legs. You pick up your Tonka truck, and attempt to climb into the crib and bash your rival over the head. Your not perfect, but good-enough mother says "Jason, come bring your picture book and sit by me while I feed your sister. I can't hold the book myself while I feed her, so I need a big-boy helper like you...Can you count how many toes she has? Shhhh...let's tiptoe while we take her to her crib, so she won't wake up while we are working on making our clay volcano together."

I decided to attempt practice of polyamory (previously practiced strict serial monogamy) after ending a significant relationship in which I demanded contract of monogamy with a man who had previously practiced polygyny in accordance with his theory of ethics (Islam.) I found myself driven into a dark, dysfunctional corner of jealousy and resentment, because he was obviously only abiding by the literal letter of our contract. Every thoughtful book I read on the topic of overcoming jealousy suggested that allowing yourself the same freedom of behavior the other party was allowing himself was the best, or only, functional solution. I found this to be true.

Compersion, an emotional state that is highly valued by thoughtful proponents of polyamory and loosely defined as being the opposite of jealousy, is the ability to take pleasure in the thought of somebody else experiencing pleasure in which you do not directly share. This is viewed as entirely natural and beneficial in many contexts, such as when you are one of two adults caring for a child. For instance, it makes you happy to know that Grandma took Billy to the park and they both had a very good time, while you were able to work without interruption on your financial spreadsheets. It's viewed as less natural or beneficial in many contexts where three adults, who can sometimes revert to childish or primitive behavior, are involved. For instance, it makes you less happy to know that Hank took Sally to bed and they both had a very good time, while you were able to work without interruption on your financial spreadsheets, UNLESS you have the maturity to recognize that it was your free choice to work on spreadsheets rather than spend time/energy in bed with Sally yourself. One lifelong problem I have had with monogamy as a female with a relatively high sex drive is I don't like being party to a contract that serves to hold my sexual energy in reserve until the other party is done with working on spreadsheets, or whatever other task he is likely to value over spending time and energy in bed with me, especially since there are so many other men with whom I could partner who would greatly prefer to spend their time and energy in such a manner. IOW, it seems very wasteful to me, except to the extent that I am able to sublimate my sexual energy towards some other activity such as teaching developmentally disabled children or canning pumpkin.

However, I would note for the record that my current primary partner is only open/okay with me engaging in very casual, just-sex interactions with other men, and I have found that does not work for me, so now we are working on reconciling our differences within monogamous contract, but it seems likely to fail unless I Harrison Bergeron myself (again, sigh.)

Re: Open relationship?

Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2017 10:55 am
by Jason
After reading that post, I thoroughly agree.

You really do need to get laid properly.