Poly; an aspect to sexuality

[JaneQSmythe]

So...some of us are older, and our history and experiences DO shape our perceptions...

Just 25 years ago (longer than some of our posters have been alive!) one of our college roommates got beat up walking home from the "gay night" at the bar just for being gay. The next year our (different complex) apartment door was handsomely decorated with "FAGGOT" in spray paint. This was a college town of the large State University.

So...now, to me, it feels like L&G (and possibly, but not really, B - and only for women) seems to be "socially acceptable" (if monogamous) but it still feels like "open season" on T&Q in small-town Appalachia. I don't, personally, see "Poly" on the same spectrum here, BUT I think that is largely because it is not on the social "radar" yet - no one is looking for it! I moved to the country and don't talk to my neighbors (nothing to do with poly). I have lived here 8 years and don't know the last name of the guy that that lives on the next 40 acre lot - just the way I like it!

 

[ElMango]

So...some of us are older, and our history and experiences DO shape our perceptions...

I think that's true for everyone, I'm sorry if I came across differently!

So...now, to me, it feels like L&G (and possibly, but not really, B - and only for women) seems to be "socially acceptable" (if monogamous) but it still feels like "open season" on T&Q in small-town Appalachia. I don't, personally, see "Poly" on the same spectrum here, BUT I think that is largely because it is not on the social "radar" yet - no one is looking for it! I moved to the country and don't talk to my neighbors (nothing to do with poly). I have lived here 8 years and don't know the last name of the guy that that lives on the next 40 acre lot - just the way I like it!

There have been a few poly articles on my cities local news. So, my city is kinda getting there? Calgary is a weird city. Super conservative but also really not.

I know my neighbours are furries, but that's because they left their fursuit paw on their back deck....I know nothing else about them besides one is from Australia and I THINK they're poly.

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