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posted by martyb on Friday June 30 2017, @02:26AM   Printer-friendly
from the Search-the-personals? dept.

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?


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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 30 2017, @03:52AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 30 2017, @03:52AM (#533258)

    That's quite a bit strange.
    First of all, most men and women are probably more comfortable living in a monogamous relationship, so two-thirds are off the bat.
    Secondly, why would only men have three wives? Many women would prefer to have openly sexual relations with many men. And what about, say, two wives for three husbands, with women strictly heterosexual, one man gay and one man bi? How does that count in the imbalance scenario?

    BTW, if You equate marriage with love, then You need to get out more.

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  • (Score: 2) by chromas on Friday June 30 2017, @04:09AM (2 children)

    by chromas (34) Subscriber Badge on Friday June 30 2017, @04:09AM (#533267) Journal

    He mentioned Mormons (FLDS). They're probably not too fond of teh gayz.

    • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Friday June 30 2017, @06:44AM (1 child)

      by kaszz (4211) on Friday June 30 2017, @06:44AM (#533320) Journal

      Their marriage strategy essentially forces some men to be gay or monks..
      (or just extramarital material)

      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 30 2017, @09:55AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 30 2017, @09:55AM (#533363)

        Or to defect their religious community, or to recruit more neophytes (the latter was probably the main goal)

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 30 2017, @04:48AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 30 2017, @04:48AM (#533286)

    There's several issues with that. For one thing, bi and gay men aren't anywhere near that common. If they did go together it would be through coercion or because they had no other choice.

    Additionally, it's usually 3 wives to a man in the FLDS for reasons that are too stupid to go into. But, if they went with 4 or more, it would just compound the problem as boys and girls are born and roughly the same rate. Every man that marries 4 women would deprive 3 men of the possibility of having a wife.

    Additionally, the main religious groups that still engage in this sort of thing are the FLDS and some Muslims in some parts of the world. Neither of which has a particularly good reputation for tolerating homosexuality. And the Mormons and Muslims that do tolerate or accept homosexuals aren't typically ones that are tolerant of polyamory.