After Lily Allen and Lindy West shared their poly stories, online discourse is giving polyamory a really bad name.

Polyamory — having more than one consensual sexual or emotional relationship at once — has in recent years emerged on television, mainstream dating sites like OkCupid and even in research. And experts ...

Jonathan Van Ness and Mark Peacock have been married for more than five years. Not all of those years have been entirely monogamous, though. Van Ness, best known for his work on Queer Eye, and Peacock ...

According to data from YouGov, 1% of the UK population are currently in polyamorous relationships and 8% would be open to being part of one. For clarity, this means that 680 thousand people are in ...

Open vs polyamory explained simply. Learn key differences, expectations, and challenges to choose the right non-monogamous path in 2026.

Almost every time I speak to a general-public audience about my research on polyamory, someone eventually asks if poly people’s desire for multiple partners means that they don’t really love each ...

Don’t ask, don’t tell is a “somewhat explicitly discussed non-monogamous dynamic” where both partners know the other is ...

We have recently seen public discourse challenge monogamy; messages noting it as unnatural, unrealistic, and breeding infidelity. In a New York Times article, Dan Savage discussed the benefits of a ...

In the United States, nearly one in five people have explored consensual non-monogamy, the practice of openly seeing multiple partners with the knowledge and consent of everyone involved. Despite this ...

Ashley Ashborn was in a polyamorous throuple – until her two partners kicked her out of it and her life came crashing down. "Unfortunately, looking back on the relationship itself, I noticed a lot of ...

While the chaotic juiciness of polyamory and non-monogamy tends to grab headlines, each is part of a broader reconsideration ...