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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 30 2017, @04:44AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 30 2017, @04:44AM (#533283)

    The men need to be identical twins. (preferably the women too)

    In that case, one man's kid is just the same as the other man's kid. The DNA is all the same.

    If your twin's jizz is in the woman, who cares? It's the same as your own jizz. Heck, he could jizz on your belly, and it's no different from you masturbating.

    NOTE: the twin must be identical!!! With a fraternal twin, it's more like gay incest.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 30 2017, @02:53PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 30 2017, @02:53PM (#533471)

    Yes of course you are correct. And there could be, very small, chance that two brothers born years apart could have identical genetic make-up. Genetics...

    Anyway, as not an identical twin, I would not consider the situation you describe OK. But identical twins do have different pathology than other people. They view each-other differently, often not as a different person. This may be an evolved way to account for situations as you describe, and is a bit spooky to the rest of us.