The celebrated memoirist latest book, “Adult Braces,” has angered cultural reactionaries with its depiction of an open ...

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

West Hollywood’s so-called “throuples” are pushing an anti-discrimination law to protect polyamorous partnerships. WeHo City Council voted unanimously this month to advance a plan allowing ...

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

Lindy West would like you to believe she is perfectly happy in her throuple, living with her husband and another woman. But she’s clearly coping. The comedian’s new book is proof that she’s given into ...

In the context of polyamorous relationships, women are sometimes able to regain their sexual subjectivity, transgress standard gender roles and power relationships and recreate their own social roles.

'We decided we could write our own rules.’ ...

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 ...

A Quiet Coastal Revolution “Why only two?” The question, posed six years ago by J.T. Scott, a member of the city council of Somerville, Massachusetts, is at the heart of the debate concerning ...

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 ...

In this interview, therapist and popular podcaster Sarah Stuteville answers essential questions about different ways of living a non-monogamous life. Stuteville draws on distinctive expertise about ...

Jonathan Van Ness and Mark Peacock have been married for more than five years. Not all of those years have been entirely monogamous, though. Van Ness, best known for his work on Queer Eye, and Peacock ...