Category: Polysexuality
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Radically Candid Interview: Tackling Polysexuality
by Jason Stotts I was interviewed by the Radically Candid Podcast again recently and the show is now up! As is always the case with Radically Candid, we talked about a lot of different topics, but we primarily talked about polysexuality and various issues as related to it. It was a lot of fun recording…
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On Polysexuality (Revised)
by Jason Stotts Summary: Our language related to sex must be expanded to capture all of the variations that we see in real life. And we need to understand this because sex is good and a valuable part of a human life. The way we structure our relationships and sex lives has a lot of optionality…
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Polysexuality and Cultural Acceptability
The current US population is 313,914,040 people, 313 million people. If you put all those polysexual people in one state it would be the 5th most populated state in the US. That those 5% of the US population, those 1 in 20 people feel ashamed at their desires and feel like they’ll be rejected by society…
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Sexuality and Privacy
by Jason Stotts I think that some of the ideas that people hold about sex are quite interesting. Some people think that monogamy is natural (it isn’t, although it still might be an optimal form of relationship for some people). Some people think that the purpose of sex is reproduction (that’s only one possible end…
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Question: The Moral Hazard of Bisexuality
by Jason Stotts I love getting questions from readers, even though I don’t always feature them on Erosophia. This question is one that many people probably have, so I thought I’d share it and my response for those of you who won’t ask, but still want to know. Today’s question is on the moral hazard…
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Aporia: Sexual Identity
by Jason Stotts What is sexual identity? Is it simply being gay or straight? Is it all possible facts about our sexuality? Is it how we structure our relationships and love as well? Does my sexual identity include facts about whether I’m monogamous or practice polyamory? Should it include whether a person has sexual integrity? …
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Formspring: Sex without Love?
by Jason Stotts Another question from a reader from Formspring: What are your thoughts on relationships that are purely sexual in nature and in which there is no expectation of romance or dating? This is a complicated question. From a moral standpoint, this can be done perfectly morally. I’ve talked about the criteria for this kind of relationship before…
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Sexual Distinctions: Candaulism, Cuckold, Threesomes
by Jason Stotts In this post, I want to draw some distinctions between different, but somewhat similar, sexual practices. Candaulism Candaulism is a term that comes to us from the Greek myth of King Candaules. In the myth, the king surreptitiously reveals his wife to one of his ministers. The sexual practice, then, is when…