West Hollywood passed the ordinance Tuesday after it was introduced by Mayor John Heilman. The measure allows people in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Research published in The Journal of Sex Research has challenged the “monogamy-superiority myth” (Getty Images/iStockphoto) People ...

Managing multiple romantic relationships presents unique challenges and opportunities for personal growth. Whether in consensual non-monogamous arrangements or other relationship structures, ...

Polyamorous relationships must be consensual and not involve blood relatives.

Nearly a decade ago when I started practicing polyamory, I remember feeling like a castaway at sea—completely lost. I wanted to be this "perfect" poly person who never got jealous, clearly ...

When people imagine having two long-term romantic partners at the same time, a majority envision two people with similar, well-rounded traits, though monogamous men often show a preference for one ...

When people discover that people like Naomi Allsworth have multiple partners, she says their minds invariably turn to sex. But polyamory, to give it its proper name, is more about loving several ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the US today, multiple-partner relationships have an aura of polygyny, with one man who has several wives basically maintaining a harem. Even though polyamory allows people of all genders to have ...

This article predates the current owners of Science Blog. It has not been reviewed under the current editorial process and is kept as part of the archive. The notion that traditional one-partner ...