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In reply to the discussion: I see right wing arguments on both sides [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)some heterosexual behaviors, adultery was often against the law, oral sex, anal sex, group sex. Then, starting in 1975 in CA, States passed laws permitting all sexual activity between consenting adults while repealing their 'anti sodomy laws'. As of 1975 any consenting adult relationship was allowed in CA. This very obviously did not create the right to marriage for same sex couples, as such marriages continued to be outside of the law. The relationships, perfectly legal. Allowed. Unhindered. And yet marriages were not part of that paradigm.
Currently, anyone is free to have any relationship between consenting adults they wish to have. Polyamory is perfectly legal. It's that other poly, polygamy, which is not legal nor is it synonymous with polyamory.
I just think it is supremely bogus to conflate polygamy and polyamory when most US and global polygamy is not polyamory. The women are monogamous, denied any polyamory. Denied the pleasures of their fellow wives, allowed only the one partner, who is in turn allowed as many as he wants. I'm not going to call that polyamory for you. Because that's not what it is.