The Problem with Polyamory
What's holding it back from being the Next Big Thing? Perhaps the homeliness of polyamorists?
As I’ve been saying for a number of years, the next big thing after trans will likely not be pedophilia but polyamory/polygamy.
There are multiple main constituencies for Poly:
Mormon fundamentalists — This seems like a long shot to develop any social / political mojo, but never say never.
Other cult leaders — There are always charismatic conmen out there thinking about how to set up a cult where they get to sleep with all the women, either exclusively or not. Who knows what plausible sounding grift the next Joseph Smith or Charles Manson will come up with?
Silicon Valley nerds too autistic to get a woman all for themselves, so they are okay with sharing one because they lack the standard human male jealousy gene.
Ugly women.
LGBTQXYZ types
Guys who want a second wife and need a fashionable-sounding rationalization to keep the first wife from divorcing them. A subset include guys with a fetish for girl-on-girl action who hope to induce their two women into putting on a show for them.
Muslims and sub-Saharans who already have multiple wives or would like them. For example, my West African friend at UCLA in 1981 explained to me that, while he wasn’t a Muslim, he though the Prophet was right to put a limit on the number of wives at four. A man should restrain himself. He, personally, already had one wife, whom he’d married back home as a teenager and then kind of forgotten about while pursuing his graduate studies abroad. But one day she showed up in L.A. and set up housekeeping for him. At first he wasn’t sure if he liked this imposition on his freedom, but she’d become a good cook while they were apart. So, his long term plan was to add another wife every decade up to a limit of four. (This is known as “gerontocratic polygamy” among anthropologists in Africa, and is considered the most respectable way to order your life.) One issue was that he’d have to go back to Africa to pursue this lifestyle in a socially-approved manner (he was a conservative gentleman), but that was fine because he was homesick for West Africa. On the rare occasions when the temperature reached 90 F in Westwood, he’d complain vociferously about how hot it was. I pointed out that he was from the equator where it was about 90 everyday. He’d reply in his Geoffrey Holder Uncola Nut baritone: “But, Steven, you don’t understand: that is the sooooooothing African heat.”
Eventually, somebody is going to figure out how to unite enough of these various factions to make them a cultural and political force, the way autogynephiles, drag queens, tomboys, and moody adolescents teamed up to turn transgenderism into a juggernaut for a decade.
The key to the trans coalition’s improbable success was to never let anybody mention the existence of its most formidable element, the AGPs. By hiding the reality of the AGP fetishists, who tend to be examples of high IQ toxic masculinity, nice white ladies could be convinced that all trans people were pitiful victims of bullying who need maternal protection.
In the entire history of the New York Times, the word “autogynephilia” has only appeared twice.
In contrast, “polyamory” is showing up more and more often, although if you read the articles all the way through, it sounds …
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