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Below are resources (books, articles, etc.) in the Connexions Library related to this topic. Clicking on an item's title takes you to its bibliographic page, which typically contains author, publisher, and cataloguing details, an abstract where available, and a link to the full text if available online, as well as links to related topics in the subject index. You can also search for materials through the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, Library of Congress, and Format indexes.
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  1. Affairs: The Secret Lives of Women
    Resource Type: Book
  2. Alternate Sources
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1996
    A safe sex manual for SM Play. The authors, all experts in SM play, dispel the stereotypes and myths about sadomasochism with this introduction to a hitherto hidden world of human expression. Safe Edge is a pan-sexual book structured to answer the questions a novice might have as he or she begins to explore safer SM play, and those of experienced players as they try new ways to play. It provides an understanding of how SM play can be a positive, safe, and healthy expression of sexual fantasies.
  3. Breaking the Bonds
    The Realities of Sexually Open Relationships

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
  4. The Civilized Couple's Guide to Extra-Marital Adventure
    Resource Type: Book
  5. The Ethical Slut 
    A guide to infinite sexual possibilities

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    A guide for anyone who dreams of having all the sex and love and friendship they want. Explores the skills and issues of a life beyond tradiational lifetime monogamy, from scheduling dates to handling jealousy, finding partners, resolving conflict, and raising children.
  6. Group Marriage
    A Study of Contemporary Multilateral Marriage

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
  7. Group marriage
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Is a form of polyamory in which more than one man and more than one woman form a family unit.
  8. Interview with Ulli Diemer
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990
    Jeff Orchard interviews Ulli Diemer about socialism, capitalism, life, and social change.
  9. Loving More
    New Models for Relationships

    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Organization and resource for people who who wish to move beyond traditional monogamy.
  10. Monogamous Voles
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2004
    Vole reversal.
  11. Non-monogamy
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A blanket term covering several different types of interpersonal relationships in which some or all participants have multiple marital, sexual, and/or romantic partners.
  12. Open marriage
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Open marriage typically refers to a marriage in which the partners agree that each may engage in extramarital sexual relationships, without this being regarded as infidelity.
  13. Open Marriage: A New Life Style for Couples 
    Resource Type: Book
  14. Open relationship
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    An open relationship is a relationship in which the participants are free to have emotional, spiritual and/or physical relationships with other partners.
  15. Our Promiscuous Prehistory
    A Review of Sex at Dawn

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Most otherwise topnotch evolutionary psychologists, primatologists and anthropologists come up with flip, vague or convoluted ways to explain away unpopular evidence. They seem to be trying to squeeze the square peg of monogamy into the round hole of humanity. Ryan and Jethá have chosen a more well-rounded term to characterize the essence of human sexuality as practiced by our prehistoric progenitors: promiscuity.
  16. PEPCON
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990
  17. Peptalk
    Periodical profile published 1989

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
  18. Polyamory
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
  19. Polyamory Society
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Promotes and supports the interest of individuals of multipartner relationships and families.
  20. Polyfidelity
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A form of polyamorous group marriage wherein all members consider each other to be primary partners and agree to be sexual only with other members of this group.
  21. Radical Digressions 3
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2001   Published: 2006
  22. Rebellion of Yale Marrat
    Resource Type: Book
  23. Responsible Polyamory
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
  24. Sex and Marriage in Utopian Communities in Nineteenth Century America
    Nineteenth-Century America

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    A look at original approaches to sex and marraige in the utopian communities of nineteenth-century America. Many of these communities abolished monogamy and individualism and sought ways of dealing with the sexual life of the group as a whole.
  25. Sex at Dawn
    The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    Ryan and Jethá contend that humans evolved in egalitarian groups that shared food, child care, and, often, sexual partners. Weaving together evidence from anthropology, archaeology, primatology, anatomy, and psychosexuality, the authors argue that monogamy is by no means part of human nature.
  26. Take your partners
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Monogamy is not necessarily the best policy.
  27. You and I...Searching for Tomorrow
    Resource Type: Book

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