![]() ![]() Maybe bringing home a boyfriend for Thanksgiving finally freed you from the kids’ table, or maybe you just felt like all your couple friends started taking you more seriously once you finally got in a relationship and deleted Tinder. We congratulate our friends and buy them gifts for getting married or engaged, for example, and plus-ones to their weddings are usually reserved for people in similarly “serious” relationships (read: married or cohabiting, presumably monogamous ones). ![]() That status bump may be less obvious than it was in Jane Austen’s day, or even when our parents got married, but we still see it all the damn time-and I’m not even just talking about the many legal perks our government reserves for married couples. Polyamory, Shall We?Īn uncomfortable reality-particularly for those of us who pride ourselves on being modern, independent individuals in loving, equal, and fully radicalized relationships that obviously have nothing to do with patriarchy or any other such sexist nonsense-is that our society still very much rewards marriage and monogamy with what Nona Willis-Aronowitz refers to as a “status bump” in her new book, Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution. ![]()
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