Jealousy Rears It’s Ugly Head In Open Marriages
August 17th, 2007 by SexyGalOpen marriage differs from polygamy in that it is legal, except in those states with extremely rigid anti-adultery laws. Unlike polygamy, in an open marriage both spouses agree to allow each other to have extramarital affairs and relationships can extend to people outside of a formally bound group.
In the open marriages of the 1970s, couples would often set rigid rules about whom they would allow to engage in sex with their partners.
Couples would meet in sex clubs or private parties and swap partners. These relationships were almost always purely sexual, and temporary lovers were rarely introduced to spouses.
Contemporary practitioners of polyamory have changed the rules, and in many cases thrown them out all together, said Dossie Easton.
According to Easton, polyamory is as much a reflection of changes in ’70s-style open marriages as it is a reflection of broad changes in attitudes about casual sex. “There has been a real change in attitudes,” Easton said. “We used to make a huge notion that if you picked up someone at a singles bar and didn’t want to marry them in the morning you shambled out of their house.”
“Nowaday, we have all kinds of open sexual connections with people that we call friends that we are not auditioning for marriage.”
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