The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships, and Other Freedoms in Sex and Love
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People have been succeeding at free love for many centuries—often quietly, without much fanfare.
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If you dream of freedom, if you dream of intimacy both hot and profound, if you dream of an abundance of friends and flirtation and affection, of following your desires and seeing where they take you, then you’ve already taken the first step.
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In most of the world, slut is a highly offensive term used to describe a woman whose sexuality is voracious, indiscriminate, and shameful. It’s interesting to note that the analogous words stud or player, used to describe a highly sexual man, are often terms of approval and envy.
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To us, a slut is a person of any gender who celebrates sexuality according to the radical proposition that sex is nice and pleasure is good for you.
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because they have a lot of it to share, because it makes them happy to share it, because sharing makes the world a better place.
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Imagine living in sexual abundance!
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Maybe you want monogamy but a kind of monogamy that you and your partner have created according to your own desires and not the blueprint handed down by the greater culture.
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Since the end of that marriage, she has not considered monogamy an option for her.
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BDSM/leather/kink
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We think we’re a great example of what can happen if you don’t try to force all your relationships into the monogamous ’til-death-do-us-part model.
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We may not always know what fits without trying it on, so we tend to be curious and adventurous.
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Sluts are not necessarily sexual athletes—although many of us do train more than most.
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our programming about love, intimacy, and sex can be rewritten.
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By breaking the rules, we both free and empower ourselves.
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We are writing this book from a sex-positive position, in the belief that we are working for a healthier and happier and safer world.
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“loving many,”
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Pansexual means including everyone as a sexual being: straight, bi, lesbian, gay, asexual, nonbinary, trans, queer, old, young, disabled, pervert, male, female, questioning, transitioning.
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His books Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953)
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if our desires do not fit into that constraint, we are morally deficient, psychologically disturbed, and going against nature.
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This means we enjoy too many sexual partners. We’ve also been called “indiscriminate” in our sexuality, which we resent: we can always tell our lovers apart.
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Kinsey once defined a “nymphomaniac” as “someone who has more sex than you”
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We measure the ethics of good sluts not by the number of their partners, but by the respect and care with which they treat them.