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How Non-Monogamous Relationships Find Success

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

Phoenix666 writes:

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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Original Submission

• Re:seriously? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 30 2017, @06:13AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 30 2017, @06:13AM (#533317)

  Imagine I hadn't seen your prior posts and journal. From that one sentence, I can tell you are pretty damn liberal. You failed to support your president in his election.

  Why, oh why, you totally irrevelant cocksucking AC, would that matter? I am liberal, and I fucked your mother. She is rather disappointed in how you turned out, but we will leave that for Thanksgiving.

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  You fucking cunt! I will resource YOUR ass, me matey! What makes you think that you have ANY property in you descendants? Sure, they will use you for a property claim, whether you are the genetic pere or not, you cuckolded bastard, but more likely they will arrange you premature death, so as to avoid clamming up the heir queue or potential inheritors. I say, cut the old man's balls clean off!

  Sexual desire for a mentally healthy male follows a rule from Star Trek. A man desires to boldly go where no man has gone before.

  This is your excuse for why so many men are interested in your asre? Weak, AC, very weak.

  Basically, it is impossible to fully clean a woman. You can't get a soapy washcloth all the way up into the end of the Fallopian tubes. Once a woman has sex, she is forever tainted.

  Ah, at last, here we are. We are dealing with a cuckold. A man so weak, so clueless, that he cannot trust women. I see that you are in fact a faggot, a poofta, a . . . now before any LGTB, etc. friends take offence, there is a certain class of males who are, um, submissive. They cannot be a equal partner in a heterosexual relationship. Some, like Maggie Thatcher's husband, just get used to being a drone. Others react, and go on to the internet, become anti-feminist, since feminism is actually a challenge for them to actually be real men, which we real mean have nearly no problem with, but these Red Pillars, perpetual Cuckolds, non-reproductive wastes of human existence, cannot deal with the reality human relations. Here, suck my cock, it will make you feel better.

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