Poly-

Polyamory is a bastardized bit of Latin/Greek/Latin that translates, more or less as "multi-loving" or "many loves." It's a word coined to represent the practice of being in more than one stable, healthy relationship at once.

I, myself, am bisexual and capable of loving more than one person at once. My idea of fidelity is "whatever rules you and your partner decide on," and involves complete and total honesty. However, I will never ever define myself as polyamorous, because of the poly-people I have known.

My observation of poly-people (which, please understand, is me poking fun in the most affectionate of ways--a good chunk of my friends are poly-) is that most of them aren't even capable of maintaining one healthy relationship at once, let alone more than one. Which is a result of the people, I'm sure, but it reflects on the term.

I hung out with a group of poly-people in Boston who were very nice people, artistic, entertaining, and generally laid-back. Also capable of miserably bad break-ups, but some part of whatever grouping broke up generally left, while the low-key ones hung around dating other poly-people in a pleasantly incestuous mish-mash. These were the ones who had a sense of humor.

And someone's sense of humor has produced this bit of mischief. If you're familiar with poly-people you will just about fall out of your chair, laughing. If not, well, it's very very risqué and definitely not work-safe.

Topical quote of the day (paraphrased): "If either of my two best friends had a penis, we wouldn't be having this discussion."

--source withheld to protect the guilty.