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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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• Re:yep, and this changes culture in a bad way Re:yep, and this changes culture in a bad way (Score: 2) by etherscythe on Friday June 30 2017, @07:43PM (2 children)

  by etherscythe (937) on Friday June 30 2017, @07:43PM (#533644) Journal

  ...or the failing men follow the Japanese model and sit at home all day comfortably by themselves, and your whole argument falls apart.

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• most of us aren't Japanese most of us aren't Japanese (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 30 2017, @08:11PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 30 2017, @08:11PM (#533662)

  There is a testosterone difference, as you might guess from the difference in body hair and testicle weight. The Japanese, and Asians in general, have less than the rest of the world.

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  • Re:most of us aren't Japanese (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 02 2017, @09:32AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 02 2017, @09:32AM (#534130)

    Because Genghis Khan was a stay in the basement geek uninterested in girls. Naturally all his decedents are too.

    Handwave the whole reason he had so many descendants...
    Also don't notice there are over a billion Chinese. That doesn't usually happen without plenty of sex. Except that one time, (ask your priest.)

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