Quick Hit: Let's Talk about Sex Baby
Check out Virginia Rutter's interesting post over at Girls w/ Pen about the dwindling incidence of infidelity. An excerpt to wet your appetite:
Are people really having less sex? Well, at the very least, it looks like they are having less sex outside of their committed relationships, according to a new study written up in Scientific American. But it also looks like people may be making up for having less sex outside of committed relationships by talking about it more.
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This article mentions "non-monogamy" but I would like to see the statistics for "cheating". if you are in a committed poly amorous relationship, having sex with some one else is not cheating.
Monogamy is being held up as THE way to have relationships. It is GOOD that people are more monogamous according to this article. I propose it is good that people aren't cheating so much. (which is probably true as well, but is an inclusive statement)
I didn't understand exactly where they were going with this.
I think talking about sex usually leads to better sex eliminating a need for "cheating" but the article seems to put an emphasis on monogamous partners talking about sex with other people rather than just talking about sex in general. Couldn't this just mean that poly partners are being forced to stay in the closet and fulfill their sexual needs through fantasy instead of acting on them?
I don't get it...
"if you are in a committed poly amorous relationship, having sex with some one else is not cheating. "
Is not NECESSARILY cheating. It's still possible to cheat in a poly relationship, depending on what parameters have been set.
/nitpick
I find it interesting that all the comments are focused on the poly issue when that was not even a part of the article, though it probably should have been. Most people (vast generalization) are not even aware of this relationship type.
I would like to see some surveying information about reasons people listed for not cheating. Talking about it helped, but I wonder what other reasons people listed.