The Normalization of Polyamory
By Jonathon Van Maren, European Conservative.
Polyamory gives people who wish to cheat on their partners the language they need to justify it.
I have been covering the push for the normalization of polyamory for several years now, as human interest stories on formalized cheating came into vogue. In California during 2017, a ‘throuple’ of men first successfully petitioned a judge to put all three of them on the birth certificate of a little girl named Piper before authoring a book titled Three Dads and a Baby. Several U.S. cities, including Somerville and Cambridge, Massachusetts, have approved family benefits for polyamorous clusters over the past few years. These stories seemed to fizzle swiftly.
Over the past several months, however, the media campaign to normalize polyamory has ramped up in earnest on both sides of the Atlantic. In a recent column titled “Still searching for The One when polyamory is more fun?” The Guardian reported that “Polyamorous relationships are having a moment” and that while “only” 10% of Brits report being willing to consider a polyamorous relationship, anybody who has used a dating app will tell you that “folks searching for not The One but The Several seem to be everywhere.”
Last month, the Daily Mail published a similar piece titled “We have been polyamorous for 20 years—here’s how we make things work.” It was a profile of Texas couple Andrea and Brandon Peters, who described happily cheating on each other for two decades and the various rules (most of which were broken) for doing so. Andrea even dropped this gem: “I don’t experience jealousy often. When I do, I try to figure out what is maybe causing it for me.” The cause could be anything, apparently, except for the fact that her husband is sleeping with someone else.
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