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Individuals in polyamorous relationships report more commitment and investment with their primary partners and report more time spent on sex with their secondary partners, a new study authored by Western researchers has found.
While previous research suggests that consensually non-monogamous relationships do not significantly differ from monogamous relationships on a number of relationship-quality indicators, this is one of the first studies to examine potential differences in the relationship dynamics between an individual's multiple partners, said lead author Rhonda Balzarini, a PhD candidate in the Psychology.
The authors asked 1,308 people in online questionnaires (drawn from polyamorous affinity groups on social media) about the dynamics of their polyamorous relationships.
"The study suggests people who are 'primary' partners – those who share a household and finances, for example – experience greater commitment and investment in the relationship. However, the secondary partnership experiences greater proportion of time spent on sex, and this remains a factor even when we account for relationship length and living arrangements," she said.
Does this explain why kings and sultans had harems?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 30 2017, @08:19PM (1 child)
Oh great, more of that postmodernist bullshit that I keep seeing everywhere.
This isn't learned behavior, this is behavior that's encoded in our DNA. I didn't want to have kids at all until I was an adult and my hormones told me that that's what I wanted. Being a man, I count on a woman being honest with me about whether or not I'm the father to know. In this day and age I have the option of an accurate paternity test, but those are really awkward to get as you're basically telling the woman that you think she's a liar.
Polyamory is not desirable for social reasons for the same reason that polygamy isn't desirable for social reasons. If it was so desirable, you'd think that it would be spreading to be more common rather than the reverse.
(Score: 2) by etherscythe on Monday July 03 2017, @09:08PM
Really? We've located the "jealousy" gene? Or are you just talking out of your ass based on "common knowledge"? I provided a book to read which refutes the notion of hard-coded jealousy - because that's not where we came from. Kindly provide sources or leave the debating to adults who have some actual knowledge.
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