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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, @11:08AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 30 2017, @11:08AM (#533373)

    I don't even know why cuckolding is a thing worried about in general, it's fucking bizarre.

    I'd be happy to enjoy in unrestricted sex with, and impregnate your wife, repeatedly, and let you and her raise my and her kids without costs or tedious upbringing involvement on my side.
    Instead of wasting my time on bringing them up, in the meantime I can find more good people like you, have even more non-guilty pleasure, and father even more children.

    You sir are an altruistic saint!

    Why would any male ever want to be married, then? Well, that's why the women invented marriage or:

    Woman: "You ain't getting any before you commit to help me out with the kids!"
    Man: "Uh, all right, if I must, but then don't make me do chores after other guys too"

    So, in a sense, monogamist relationship is an agreement that both parties set back a little their respective goals to achieve a deal on common ground. If there is a breach of this agreement by one party, the other one gets upset: men get upset if children aren't theirs, women if men are allocating part of their efforts to another women and children (most women don't care if their men sleep around, unless they make more offspring to leech income or cut into inheritance), or stop providing entirely.

  • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday June 30 2017, @03:58PM

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Friday June 30 2017, @03:58PM (#533518)

    most women don't care if their men sleep around, unless they make more offspring to leech income or cut into inheritance

    That hasn't been my observation at all; instead, it seems to be quite the opposite: women are far more jealous of their partners than the reverse. From my observations about polyamory specifically, men are *far* more interested in it than women, even though women actually stand to gain far more from it.