Poly Is Not Non-Stop Orgies (Poly Is Not, Part XV)

Poly Is Not Non-Stop Orgies (Poly Is Not, Part XV)

Illustration from De Figuris Veneris by Édouard-Henri Avril overlaid with a dark screen and a restricted sign on top.

Although, for some people, it may be orgies once in a while.

It’s not dating many multiples of blissful, exciting people. Except for when it is.

It’s not never being lonely. It’s often not being lonely. Sometimes it’s even needing space, and being alone.

It’s not jetsetting around the world footloose and fancy free. Sometimes it is.

It’s more often figuring out childcare and working around busy work schedules and life…

Just multiplied in complexity.

Signing legal forms, rearing children, cleaning up puppy poop, realizing that you double booked, or that you need alone time, getting to date night totally exhausted, feeling too ill to play or too overworked, small and large dramas, laughter and tears, craving cuddles or hot sex, and finding it everywhere or nowhere…

Poly. It’s your life, just with a bigger cast.

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