Recent content by Myrddin

Very healthy attitude. To clarify: I can imagine myself coming out as gay or bi (if I were gay or bi). I can imagine myself coming out as poly if I were poly. I can't imagine myself coming out as "involuntarily poly." Until I have more solid information to go on, I think I'll give bkreader...

Oh, and... Understatement of the freakin' century.

Mono, I like that survival guide. Tonberry, BlackUnicorn, good questions. Without wanting to seem like a game-show host, I might discreetly scribble out a list of those before our next meeting. The fluid-bonding thing is a non-issue, certainly for the foreseeable future. I have no intention of...

Erm, that is usually what evolutionary biologists mean by natural. Have you read The Selfish Gene? Of course, natural doesn't mean right. There must be some evolutionary influence on behaviour, otherwise different species wouldn't have such different (usual) sexual patterns. For example, the...

Thanks for the commentary, folks. You're doing a lot to help me get over the culture shock. I think it's more than that. From what I've read so far, the poly approach to relationships seems qualitatively different to the classic mono approach. It's like the difference between metallic and...

Hi all, First, can I say you guys run a really useful forum. I've been thoroughly enjoying reading round it. I'm in kind of a weird situation (well, for me it's weird), and I'd appreciate your take on it. I've been meeting up with a girl for a couple of months now, in a date-like fashion. We...