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07/29/09
Now, I'm so monogamous, I don't even dream about men other than my husband. If I need a person in my fantasy, I dream up Faceless Guy #random. I find the idea of sleeping with someone who isn't my husband abhorrent. It strikes me that I am ill-suited for a poly lifestyle.
And yet, poly people have told me that I can't knock it 'til I've tried it, that it's culture talking, that I've been brainwashed. I can't help but resent the implication that my sexual preference is a matter of brainwashing, while theirs is somehow enlightened and "better."
I'm all for letting people do whatever behind closed doors. Doesn't affect me any. I just wish they'd quit trying to convince me there's a right and a wrong where personal preference is concerned.
07/29/09
07/29/09
Another case of blurring the line between personal preference and value judgment, right there.
07/29/09
I feel the exact same way about my husband, and I'm sick of all the messages out there that this is old-school and sooo 1950s. Just as the other side feels that society rejects their lifestyles, I can also see the pendulum "swinging" the other way. Suddenly, even if I am absolutely sure that I never want anything other than monogamy, it's apparently only because I have been "programmed." Nope. Even if polygomy was the only lifestyle I'd ever heard of, it wouldn't be a fit for me and I'd be miserable. My not "being able to choose" the polygamist lifestyle is a result of the way I'M hardwired, and I don't find it the least bit sad.