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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. Americans talk about love: How we chose an open marriage
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Bowe presents an American couple's conversation revealing their history of polyamory.
  4. Anxious Pleasures (excerpt)
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1986
  5. Beyond Monogamy
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    A newsletter dedicated to exploring and facilitating alternatives to traditional monogamous relationships. There is a collection of these newsletters from 1980 through 1982 in the Connexions Archive.
  6. Breaking the Bonds
    The Realities of Sexually Open Relationships
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    An examination of the lives of (American) people involved in socially and/or sexually open relationships.
  7. The Civilized Couple's Guide to Extra-Marital Adventure
    Resource Type: Book
  8. Connexions Library: Sexuality Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on sexuality.
  9. 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.
  10. Group Marriage
    A Study of Contemporary Multilateral Marriage
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    A study of more than 100 group marriages in the United States, exploring the psychology and sociology of this form of marital relationship. The study looks at how group marriages are established, who enters into such relationships, how they communicate, how children and adults relate, how conflicts are resolved.
  11. Group marriage
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Is a form of polyamory in which more than one man and more than one woman form a family unit.
  12. The Harrad Experiment
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1966   Published: 1967
  13. Interview with Ulli Diemer
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990
    Jeff Orchard interviews Ulli Diemer about socialism, capitalism, life, and social change.
  14. Intimate Friendships 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    Examines various forms of intimate relationship, from monogamy, to monogamy with adultery, to polygyny, polyandry and group relationships.
  15. Kerista
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A religion founded in 1956 by John Peltz "Bro Jud" Presmont. Throughout much of its history, Kerista was centered on the ideals of polyfidelity (called "responsible non-monogamy") and creation of intentional communities.
  16. Loving More
    New Models for Relationships
    Resource Type: Website
    Organization and resource for people who who wish to move beyond traditional monogamy.
  17. Loving More
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1991
    A newsletter published by PEP (Polyfidelitious Educational Productions), a group marriage journal and network. Previous title was PEPTALK; name was changed to Loving More starting with the Spring 1991 issue (Issue #26), and to Loving More Magazine ins 1994. Some copies of this publication are in the Connexions Archive.
    See also the Loving More website www.lovemore.com.
  18. Monogamous Voles
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    Vole reversal.
  19. Non-monogamy
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A blanket term covering several different types of interpersonal relationships in which some or all participants have multiple marital, sexual, and/or romantic partners.
  20. Open Marriage 
    A New Life Style for Couples
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    The authors propose open marriage as a way to help couples realize that there can be both relatedness and freedom in marriage, and that freedom, with the growth and responsibility it entails, can be the basis for intimacy and love.
  21. Open marriage
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
  22. Open relationship
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    An open relationship is a relationship in which the participants are free to have emotional, spiritual and/or physical relationships with other partners.
  23. Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Drawing on in-depth interviews with over a hundred women and men, Opening Up explores the real-life benefits and challenges of all styles of open relationships — from partnered non-monogamy to solo polyamory.
  24. Our Promiscuous Prehistory
    A Review of Sex at Dawn
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
  25. PEPCON
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990
  26. Peptalk
    Periodical profile published 1989
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
  27. Polyamory
    Resource Type: Website
  28. Polyamory and Polygamy: Is the Media Right?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    There are a few of repeated themes emerging in many of the articles railing against polyamorous marriage.
  29. Polyamory Society
    Resource Type: Website
    Promotes and supports the interest of individuals of multipartner relationships and families.
  30. Polyfidelity
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
  31. Proposition 31
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
  32. Radical Digressions 3
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2001   Published: 2006
  33. Rebellion of Yale Marrat
    Resource Type: Book
  34. Responsible Polyamory
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
  35. 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.
  36. 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.
  37. SexSources.ca
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2017
    A web portal featuring sexuality resources: articles, websites, books. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
  38. Take your partners
    Resource Type: Article
    Monogamy is not necessarily the best policy.
  39. Think the Left Won the Culture War? Think Again
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    With the recent AshleyMadison leak and Gawker.com's notorious naming and shaming of an obscure, married publishing executive, deBoer questions who really won in this culture war.
  40. When Will the Media Really Get Polyamory?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Why do the media so often miss the mark when they write articles or do a feature on polyamory? Why do so many approach the subject with a ready-made idea of what they are looking for?
  41. Why Not Have Sex With People Who Aren't Your Partner?
    Infidelity is treated as selfish, while monogamy is celebrated. But what's so great about living in self-denial?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Although open relationships are not as shocking a concept today as they were 50 years ago, they’re still regarded with overwhelming skepticism and even disdain. The usual assumption is that polyamorous people are selfish, immature, incapable of commitment, and their primary relationship is therefore doomed to failure.
  42. You and I...Searching for Tomorrow
    Resource Type: Book
    Letters to author Robert H. Rimmer about non-traditional sexual experiences and explorations, such as group marriage.

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