Monogam-ish: Should You Try an Open Relationship? Tom Corbett Elizabeth* was basking in postcoital bliss when her husband, Chris, turned to her and asked, "Would you ever want to have sex with someone else?
" They had been married for six months, together for nine years before that, and monogamous the whole time. True, they had toyed with the idea of a threesome, usually during dirty talk, but this was different. "I was appalled," says Elizabeth, a 30-year-old TV producer living in Los Angeles. "I assumed this suggestion opened the floodgates to any number of horrible things that would doom our marriage. " Faced with Elizabeth's tears, Chris, 33, tried to explain that it was only an uncensored inquiry. Chris and Elizabeth seem like the poster couple for a happy marriage. BROKERING A BEDROOM DEAL Elizabeth and Chris are among a growing number of couples who are reconsidering the terms of their commitment. The idea is for both partners to come clean about what they feel emotionally capable of handling, often through ongoing conversation.
Sex at Dawn. The book generated a great deal of publicity in the popular press, where it was met with generally positive reviews.
A number of scholars from related academic disciplines such as anthropology, evolutionary psychology, primatology, biology, and sexology have commented on the book; many have been critical of the book's methodology and some of its conclusions, although some academics have praised the book. Summary[edit] The authors argue that human beings evolved in egalitarian hunter-gatherer bands in which sexual interaction was a shared resource, much like food, child care, and group defense.[1][2][3][4] They think that much of evolutionary psychology has been conducted with a bias regarding human sexuality. The authors believe that the public and many researchers are guilty of the "Flintstonization" of hunter-gatherer society; that is to say projecting modern assumptions and beliefs onto earlier societies. Reception[edit] Popular media reception[edit] Scholarly reception[edit] The Ethical Slut. The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities (ISBN 1-890159-01-8) is an English non-fiction book written by Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy (given as pseudonym Catherine A.
Liszt for the book's first edition). The book discusses consensual non-monogamy as a lifestyle, and provides practical guidance on how such long-term relationships work and are put into practice. Content[edit] The authors define the term slut as "a person of any gender who has the courage to lead life according to the radical proposition that sex is nice and pleasure is good for you.
" The term is reclaimed from its usual use as a pejorative and as a simple label for a promiscuous person. The Ethical Slut discusses how to live an active life with multiple concurrent sexual relationships in a fair and honest way. Adaptation[edit] In 2013, Ben Fritz (producer/director) raised funding privately and via Kickstarter to create an episodic web-series inspired by the book with input from Easton and Hardy.
Sex at Dawn.