Gender issues have been a cultural issue for many years, but there are signs that the media is moving toward a new topic: polyamory.
Molly Roden Winter’s Sneaky Details More information: Memoirs of an open marriage attracted the attention of of atlantic ocean, new york times, new yorker and washington post It suggests that marriage is about to be redefined once again. But to understand that this is not a fad, you need to look beyond the bedroom. more” author was dating his mistress, friend with benefits, or “ethical slut” as polyamorists sometimes call themselves.
more This is the latest in a series of recent Book, TV program and celebrity Over the past few years, the virtues of polyamory have been extolled. Now, is becoming accepted And the normalization of consensual non-monogamy. This arrangement was until recently considered immoral and depraved, involving kink, sex clubs, and wife-swapping.
Following a strategy established by gay marriage and transgender rights advocates, polyamory is poised to become the next sexual identity to seek legal recognition. The movement’s leaders ultimately hope to achieve full societal acceptance, and their strategy requires an emphasis on happy polyamorous families. if you can With well-adjusted children.
If it looks like this déjà vuThat’s because the polyamorous rights movement is consciously modeled on its successful predecessors, who erased perverse stereotypes with a family-friendly image.The Polyamory Legal Defense Coalition recently published Local government awareness of polyamory As a domestic partnership Somerville, Massachusetts. , and cambridge, massachusettsconsiders this an important development, precisely because same-sex marriage began to be legally accepted before the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in 2015, and there was a “huge shift in social attitudes.” “It led to change.”
The group is currently collecting cases of discrimination against polyamorists for legislative advocacy, according to its website. The group files lawsuits in court challenging housing discrimination, employment discrimination, denial of hospital access, denial of health insurance for multiple partners, and child custody, deeming polypartners morally unfit to raise children. We are considering this. Because polyamory overlaps considerably with gay and queer sexuality, there is no problem with the case that polyphobia affects LGBTQ people differently.
and increasingly likely to be legally recognizedand with academic support, Social science and law journals, all it would take to spark a national culture war would be for an enterprising Republican lawmaker to propose a bill to outlaw polyamory. Transgender rights exploded onto the national stage in 2016 when the Charlotte, North Carolina City Council legalized transgender access to public accommodations and the state Legislature responded with the infamous bathroom bill HB2. It was for a reason.
The transgender experience is an objective lesson in the speed of cultural change in the age of social media, and a lesson to keep in mind when it seems unthinkable that multiple-partner marriage will become legal. is. It is noteworthy that among his dissenting opinions, Obergefell vs. HodgesSame-Sex Marriage Case, Chief Justice John Roberts warned“It is surprising how much of the majority’s reasoning applies with equal force to the assertion of a fundamental right against plural marriage.” Why is there such a lack of dignity in the bond between these three people?”
In 2022, a New York judge offered a glimpse of that future when examining poly relationships. eviction case. Opposing polyamory was not just a disagreement, but a type of bigotry motivated by “majority hostility.”
Poly rights give marginalized people the dignity of living a private life, but rights often involve the rest of the population in a new moral paradigm. If the past is any indication, we should expect battles over multi-themed picture books in grammar schools, multiple affirmations of churches and liturgies, and a diversification of society as a whole. As we have seen with past invocations of the sacred word “rights,” when social subcultures acquire protected status, areas of speculation that were once a matter of opinion are reclassified as oppression and hate speech. There is a tendency to