Open
In an open marriage, what happens if your husband or girlfriend falls in love with someone else?
A writer from AOL interviewed me a month or so ago. The interview was posted on their health page for a week or two and then when a piece on polyamory came out on Newsweek.com, AOL moved my interview to their homepage. Within a matter of minutes, my inbox was bursting with comments and questions; the interview itself had more than 1500 comments posted on it. I would love to be able to email every single person individually, but since that would be humanly impossible, YourTango.com has been gracious enough to let me answer questions and reply to comments … Read More
Meet Robyn: a polyamorist, suburbanite and mother. Could she be your next-door neighbor?
What would you do if you found out that the mom you shared carpool duties with was a dominatrix at night? Or what if that cute couple next door wasn't really a couple—but a threesome or a foursome? How would you react?
Well, you better get used to it, because all across America, in sleepy suburbs just like yours, moms are hiding secrets. In Part 3 of momlogic's "Secrets in the Suburbs" series, we pierce the veil of secrecy surrounding the mysterious and often secret world of polyamory. In Relationships, Does "Normal" Exist?
Meet Robyn. She's … Read More
Can you imagine taking pleasure in your boyfriend's feelings for someone else? That's compersion.
Amidst a crowded dance floor, a slender blonde woman leaned over to whisper in my ear. "You're a very attractive couple," she purred. I smiled at her—an ego boost is always nice—and continued dancing with my boyfriend. The man with her gave me a high-five and kept flashing smiles my way. Was he trying to hit on me? It could not have been anymore clear: I was there with my boyfriend.
For the next half hour every time I looked up, I felt one of them trying to make eye contact with me. When we left the bar my boyfriend … Read More
Jenny Block does it differently.
If Bill was suggesting a sexual relationship with me, he was coy about it. The man I had interned for in college met me for coffee, ostensibly to talk advise a young sprout on her career. He's brilliant, attractive and a leader in his field. But when Bill began talking about how he sleeps with women other than his wife, I panicked at any hint of a subtext. What threw me off was when he told me that the wife knew about it.
That was the first time someone I knew confessed to an "open marriage," and it challenged my … Read More
Jenny Block answers your questions about open marriage.
I'm in an open marriage and my new book, Open: Love, Sex, and Life in an Open Marriage is hitting the shelves as we "speak." That's the short of it. You can read the full story right here on the Tango website. First, there's the piece called "Portrait of an Open Marriage" that was actually the inspiration for the book. And then there's the follow-up piece that I wrote two years later called "Portrait of an … Read More
College students love sex and magazines, so this is really a no-brainer.
Yeah, crazy name 'Rice,' but there is a country called 'Turkey' so all bets are off. So, Rice is in Houston (pronounced hew-ston not how-ston, New Yorkers) and Newsweek refers to it as one of the 'New Ivies.' Though Texans claim that they are not southerners they still have sweet accents and good-looking blond gals. We digress. Like a number of more Northeasternly colleges, The Houston Chronicle is reporting that Rice is launching a sex magazine.
The book (it's an industry term that means magazine) is called Open and is the brainchild of Rachel Solnick. … Read More