The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships, and Other Freedoms in Sex and Love
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Sexual energy pervades everything all the time; we inhale it into our lungs and exude it from our pores.
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Some can be sexual with any gender but romantic with only one, or vice versa, and so on, throughout the universe of bisexual attractions and choices.
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do you really have to stay over and have breakfast together the next day, or would an hour or two of cuddling and talk be just as nice?
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when you blame someone else for how you feel, you disempower yourself.
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Was it with a polite and friendly but unmistakable “No, thanks”? Or was it with “Not tonight; I’ve got a headache” or “Maybe another time” or “I’ll think about it”? We strongly suggest you work out a “No, thanks” that feels comfortable to you; expecting the interested party to read your mind and somehow know that your “maybe…” means “no” is neither ethical nor slutty.
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(which must,
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according to the rules, be handed back after due admiration, just like adult toys).
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The binary nature of monogamy-centrist thinking tends, we think, to cause problems: you’re either the love of my life or you’re out of here.
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Khalil Gibran wrote something truly profound about the nature of pain: “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”
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it is very, very worthwhile to learn to have your feelings without foisting them on someone else.