Polyamory on Purpose Archive

Category: Polyamory

  • Facts About Mental Illness for Polyamorous Partners

    Before we get into the intersection of mental illness and polyamory I want to take a look at a few facts about mental illness. This post is primarily written for the poly partners of people dealing with mental illness, but will be generally useful to anyone interested in the basics of mental illness. What is…

  • Polyamory and Mental Illness

    Hey folks. This week we’re starting a new posting series about the intersection of mental illness and polyamory. We’ll be covering everything from facts about mental illness, to disclosing mental illness, to the impact of mental illness on jealousy, and a great deal more. I asked Clementine Morrigan, who inspired this series, to kick us…

  • Moving in Together: Wrap Up

    I haven’t covered everything involved in moving in together, but over the past month+ we’ve covered a good range. From “Yours and Mine” to “Yours and Yours and Mine” Should you get a new home? Personal Space Schedules and Patterns Social Dynamics Sleeping Together (or Apart) And one bonus “moving in together post” written as…

  • STIs: Syphilis

    For centuries syphilis was the bogey-man of Europe (and probably other parts of the world—but I can only speak of Europe for a certainty). In fact, it would not in anyway be an exaggeration to call syphilis the HIV of 15th century Europe. Today, syphilis is far less of a threat. The development of effective…

  • STI: Scabies

    Scabies is the common name for a parasitic infection, specifically this parasite: These microscopic invaders not only make a meal of dead skin, like most mites, they actually burrow into human skin to create little dens for laying eggs. Picture a field for of rabbit burrows. Now picture that field is your skin and the…

  • Moving in: Sleeping Together (or Apart)

    A few years back I did a write up on all the various ways I knew of for polyfolk to arrange their bedrooms. At some point, I need to go back and expand it a bit to include sleeping arrangements for solo polies, but aside from that it is still a fairly comprehensive list. If…

  • Moving in Together: Social Dynamics

    CW: Most anarchists will not like this post. Deal with it. Especially in the US, we tend to fetishize freedom and equality. We congratulate ourselves on how egalitarian our society is, get really het up at any suggestions that we are not the freest people on Earth—and then we go and cheer the Patriot Act.…

  • STI: Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID)

    (Edit: Sorry for the late post! This was supposed to go up yesterday but didn’t due to a technical glitch.) Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is an infection of the cervix, uterus, Fallopian tubes and/or ovaries. PID is not a specific sexually transmitted infection, it is more like the common cold or pneumonia—a disease that can be…

  • Moving in Together: Schedules and Patterns

    Almost everyone’s life is built around schedules and patterns. Some patterns are as simple as going food shopping every Tuesday and doing the cleaning on Thursday. Others need by-the-minute calendars to keep track of what is going on when. When a poly family moves in together everyone’s patterns and schedules are going to be disrupted.…

  • Polyamory Book Review: The Husband Swap

    This week I had the chance to read an advance reader copy of the second edition of The Husband Swap, by Louisa Leontiades. The Husband Swap is the story of Louisa’s journey into polyamory, and her first poly relationship, a quad between herself, her husband and another couple, Morten and Elena. It was a difficult,…