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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, @02:09PM (1 child)
You are silly. The outcomes of polygamy are self-evident the world over, yet you simply do not care for them, yet somehow cannot find a reason as to why someone who doesn't have their head up their ass would try to prevent these outcomes...
There exists study after study that would back-up the fact that give opportunity ALL WOMEN would only mate with top 10-20% of men. Do you not realize the result of this? In order for there not to be a whole-sale collapse of the government, the most of draconian measures would have to be introduced. Simply asking men to only have one wife is the least draconian of all.
Or maybe you consider yourself one of these elite 10-20%. Even if, such a man would get tired of dealing with BS of 5 women pretty quickly.
(Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Friday June 30 2017, @06:32PM
I do not care about them because they are not relevant to your rights. If a bunch of people want to get into a relationship with a particular person, and if that does indeed decrease the amount of partners available to you, then that is just too bad; you don't 'own' those other people, and at most have the right to try to convince them to enter into a relationship with you. What part of this is hard to understand? As long as it's all consensual, these people are neither doing anything wrong and nor are they somehow violating your rights.
For this same reason, I don't care about the studies which you say exist, even if I generously assume that they are not just more unscientific social science garbage (like this silly online questionnaire), which they probably are.
Just like we 'have to' have mass surveillance to combat terrorism. Just like we 'have to' have any number of other authoritarian measures in order to combat Bogeyman X. Or you can choose to support individual liberty above safety.
But still far too draconian. And what are you going to do if people just engage in these types of relationships without marrying? Ban that too? You don't actually need marriage, you know.
What I care about are individual liberties, not your probability of finding a partner. I will not sacrifice individual liberties just so you can increase your chances of entering into a relationship with someone else. Stop being an authoritarian moron, something that is far worse than "silly".