The celebrated memoirist’s latest book, Adult Braces, has angered cultural reactionaries with its depiction of an open marriage. But it also falls into the trap of wanting to represent an idealized ...

West Hollywood moves toward legal protections for polyamorous relationships, which can face systemic barriers in housing, healthcare, education and other services.

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. For many of us, our mental picture of romantic love is a couple. After all, a firmly ...

Max* walked into my consulting room and sat towards the far edge of the couch. His foot began rapidly tapping the hardwood floor beneath him, betraying an anxiety uncharacteristic of his generally ...

Justin and Myron from the Louis Theroux manosphere documentary are both in one-sided polyamorous relationships, so let’s unpack what that actually means and the wild rules. Louis Theroux’s new ...

Andrea, a 43-year-old software engineer, was once open about being polyamorous. She told family and friends that she maintained multiple romantic relationships simultaneously, with the full knowledge ...

A PUD, of course, is someone who is “poly under duress.” Because while some of us start out poly and some of us achieve poly, others have poly thrust upon ’em. These are their stories. — Dan I’m a ...

I’m off this week. To tide you over until I’m back, the tech-savvy, at-risk youth pulled some classic “PUD” questions from the archives. A PUD, of course, is someone who is “poly under duress.” ...