Polyamory Weekly
Summary: Minx and her listeners discuss loving more and polyamory, the lifestyle of being involved in more than one commited, long-term, loving relationship with the full knowledge and consent of all parties involved. In this community-driven show, each week Minx talks sex, relationships, communication, family, erotica, psychology, orgasms and anything else that comes up in the ins and outs of the daily polyamorous lifestyle.
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Podcasts:
What do you do when your partner gets so jealous that you feel compelled to give up your boyfriend, while your hubby happily dates away? Can you still be poly if your husband's emotions don't enable it?
Koe Creation grew up in a polyamorous home and has just written a new memoir, This Heart Holds Many, answering frequently-asked questions about raising kids in a poly space.
We chat with Laura Zielinsky, author of a new poly erotic novel, We Are Three.
Sex therapist Dr. Liz Powell rejoins us to talk about how she became a sex therapist and why she wrote her new book, Building Open Relationships. We talk about sex therapy, polyamory, and of course, communication.
Joseph Pred shares the Consent Framework, a tool for community organizers to get and enforce consent at events. Plus, polyamory in the news, including on NPR!
My partners and I agreed to live together and have kids, but now I'm not so sure. Our poly relationship isn't that solid, and I like my space. Do nonmonogamous families have to live together?
Kevin Patterson, Chris Smith, Lusty Guy, and Minx discuss what we mean by "toxic masculinity" and how we should respond to both the term and the thing itself as well as how it relates to polyamory.
What do you do when your long-distance partners move into town, and you find yourself with too many poly partners and too little time? Do you break up with some of them? Minx and Lusty Guy give advice on putting yourself first and on respecting others' agency when your polycule becomes unwieldy.
Lawyer Melissa Hall shares exciting news about the new poly-friendly parentage act being enacted in Washington state. It enables a third or fourth parent for third-party adoptions and defines "de facto parent" for adults who have acted as and whom the child recognizes as a parent. And this is a uniform law, meaning it's intended to be adoptable as law in all 50 U.S. states. While it's intended to benefit the GLBTQIA community, it holds definite benefits for poly families and polycules as well.
Kevin Patterson and Alana Phelan have come out with a new superhero novel in which queerness, polyamory, and people of color are normalized.
Listener Kate asks if her partner wants to date a long-time monogamous friend without that friend's monogamous partner's explicit consent, how does Kate object without imposing her poly ethics on her partner?
A listener from Germany calls in to ask if his relationship with his girlfriend is healthy except he wants sex more often and to explore his bisexuality, will poly work for them?
Chloé is pregnant and now feeling possessive of her husband. Is it OK to ask her metamour to find someone else to date so the metamour is not so in love with Chloé's husband?
A queer man writes in to ask how to cope when his partners buy a house and consider adopting a teenager with little to no input from him and his partner. Lusty Guy and Minx give advice on how to communicate your needs and wants and to assume goodwill all around.
Sex educator and author Allison Moon cohosts this episode offering advice to a listener who wants to know when to give up on polyamory that is making everyone involved unhappy.
