Article: 6 celebrities who have opened up about their polyamorous relationships

Al99

Al99

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I saw a link to this on my FB page and thought I would share it as I suspect it reflects a gradually growing public awareness and acceptance of CNM and poly.

Although personally I share Robert Heinlein's view of celebrity opinions:

"The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance."

And might as well include the rest of the western world with the US in that folly also. Nevertheless, the celebs coming out as poly probably does signify a step along the way to greater public acceptance - just as it did when the first celebs starting coming out as LGBT.

6 celebrities who have opened up about their polyamorous relationships
Canela López Nov 12, 2019, Insider.com

The web page is a bit clunky with ads - but is usable.

https://www.insider.com/celebrities...oztEdXuL4WjBHVRyI1WfNT2ND8GQz3xNxL4pFx3ePsU9c
 
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I thought it was a good article. To be honest, acceptance by celebrities pretty much has to happen before most people will accept. Most people look to celebrities to decide what is acceptable behavior, what is in the range of "normal." A dysfunctional state of affairs perhaps, but unlikely to change any time soon. So, I am encouraged whenever a celebrity is polyamorous/nonmonogamous and is out about it.
 
I was looking forward to seeing which famous folks had come out to help normalize poly and...I have honestly never heard of any of these people...
 
Me neither, but I don't much follow who's famous, so I figured that part was just me.
 
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Me neither, but I don't much follow who's famous, so I figured that part was just me.
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Same here - I don't follow current pop culture at all, so it was not surprising to me that I wasn't familiar with anyone of their list. However, I do recall that a somewhat "bigger" celebrity - Nico Tortorella - recently came out as poly. I don't know who he is either, but saw some some mentions of of his poly situation on the FB poly groups.

Al
 
LOL I was feeling old for a second but I see I'm not alone in not knowing who these people are. I guess we'll just have to wait a whole generation for poly to become acceptable.
 
Al99 said:
Although personally I share Robert Heinlein's view of celebrity opinions:

"The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance."
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He did have a way with words. Didn't he? I wonder if celebrities who talk poly are the real thing or just another tabloid story. What poly culture needs is a film that competes by translating the the same key scenes into a poly culture version. It would be awesome.
 
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Al99 said:
Although personally I share Robert Heinlein's view of celebrity opinions:

"The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance."
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Yay! Heinlein quote! Luvs!

But, yes, why does a celebrity voice earn so much more cred?!

One idiotic celebrity anti-vaxxer and it's now a "thing"! (If anyone wants to argue the vaccination thing - please PM me, so I don't have to call you an idiot in public!)

So Poly is okay because someone that you are a fan of is "doing it"?

I end up swinging between - "It's okay as long as they are saying what I agree with." and "Why do they get a say, they are clearly idiots!?!" Which makes me hate my own hypocrisy!!!
 
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