In much of society, we are expected to hold one romantic relationship at a time. There’s even a term for it: default (or compulsory) monogamy. In monogamy, we typically move through relationships, ...

Elise Wandering Hummingbird, a 32-year-old massage therapist, had an inkling she was polyamorous at a young age. A former Jehovah's Witness, however, the Seattle resident didn't settle into her ...

Just a few years ago, the question of opening up a relationship was mostly asked in hushed tones. “So, they’re sleeping with other people now?” one person might whisper. “Wait, you’re dating how many ...

Two women and a man lying in the grass in Los Angeles in 1967. (Sulfiati Magnuson/Getty Images) Everyone seems to be talking about polyamory. But are they practicing it? Journalists have lately ...

So much of what we understand about relationships and love comes not only from the people we know, but the TV shows, movies, and books we consume. The problem is, pop culture doesn’t always get ...

Family is everything for Chaneé Jackson Kendall. But her family doesn't look like what society has told us it should. That's because she's Black and polyamorous; the influencer space and mass media ...

Do you remember when polygamy was retrograde and conservative? You only have to go back to about 13 years, when the gay marriage debate was hitting its climax. If we rewrote the definition of marriage ...

Recently, I became interested in theorizing what I’m calling “post-work polyamory.” This concept arose from a relatively simple question: how do people manage to hold down a job, or multiple jobs, ...

Thanks to many cultural shifts and an increase in more progressive worldviews over the past few decades, heteronormative monogamy isn’t necessarily the standard anymore when it comes to relationships.

In its simplest definition, polyamorous dating means dating one or more people in a variety of different capacities from casual to more serious connections. And I embarked on my polyamorous dating ...