The celebrated memoirist’s latest book, Adult Braces, has angered cultural reactionaries with its depiction of an open marriage. But it also falls into the trap of wanting to represent an idealized ...

West Hollywood moves toward legal protections for polyamorous relationships, which can face systemic barriers in housing, ...

We asked a relationship therapist about the "toxic" dynamic.

Her efforts to come to terms with polyamory are couched as a political project—part of being an open-minded liberal—as much as a romantic one. And although she describes her husband as a “genius” and ...

I’m off this week. To tide you over until I’m back, the tech-savvy, at-risk youth pulled some classic “PUD” questions from the archives. A PUD, of course, is someone who is “poly under duress.” ...

In the history of sexual dissent, the relationship between politics and sexual freedom defies simplistic categorization.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While monogamy is considered the traditional approach to relationships, not every couple chooses what's conventional. According to ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. For many of us, our mental picture of romantic love is a couple. After all, a firmly ...

New Yorkers are in a lusty state of affairs. With wintery temperatures below freezing and snow piling up to our eyeballs, the randy residents of the Big Apple and beyond are turning up the heat with ...

Unconventional family structures can take a variety of forms. One newer form of unconventional relationship/family structure is that of polyamory, a practice characterized by simultaneous consensual ...

A PUD, of course, is someone who is “poly under duress.” Because while some of us start out poly and some of us achieve poly, others have poly thrust upon ’em. These are their stories. — Dan I’m a ...