79 Quotes About Monogamy

We drove to the hotel and said goodbye. How hypocritical to go upstairs with a man you don't want to fuck, leave the one you do sitting there alone, and then, in a state of great excitement, fuck the one you don't want to fuck while pretending he's the one you do. That's called fidelity. That's called monogamy. That's called civilization and its discontents.

Some women's love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can't give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop's license to receive it.

When I tell her I feel like the other woman, she laughs, that's just learned sexist bullshit. We are all in charge of our own bodies and what we decide to do with them. We are all our own. I believed it when she said it, like she'd opened up a new valve that had been stuck. I felt unconfined and open-minded and totally confused. Intellectually, non-monogamy made complete sense; emotionally, it felt like sandpaper across my eyelids.

The forbiddenness of a fruit makes even the taste of a lemon sweet.

The idea that we are better off with one person for the rest of our lives is not an innate truth of existence. It’s a belief we want to be true.

O poliamor não vem definido pelo número de relações, e sim pelo tipo de relação que têm os meta-amores entre si: se é de cooperação e cuidados mútuos, ou de confrontação e batalha pelo topo.

But every one belongs to every one else.

give up on monogamy with another and begin solitary love affair with brain

Monogamy used to mean one person for life. Now monogamy means one person at a time.