It isnt revolutionary, but it is good that there is an alternative to monogamy, and dating multiple people makes it easier to survive under capitalism in a lot of cases.
I just remembered a thread where people were being kind of shit about it and felt the need to post
Not grilling you or asking for proof but is there any guides on how to do this properly? Downloaded a book on this topic a while back called the ethical slut and haven't really got a chance to read it. If you read this would this be a good source or could you provide something.
Personally when it comes to child rearing I think the more stable adults around the better. I always hated the mentality guys have thinking I don't want to take care of some other man's kids. They're kids they're meant to be taken care of. Idk I want to blame capitalism for monogamy and this attitude.
Ethical Slut is good, gives a good overview of everything. Also try the Multiamory podcast if you want more in depth and up to date stuff on particular topics.
I totally totally agree with your point about kids. I don't think I want my own biological kids but I want to be involved in raising them. There's lots of beautiful new kinds of family structures we can create that provide for our children's needs much better.
Multiamory podcast I'll check this out. I don't mind reading tbh but I can't sit down for long to read since short attention span and busy. But yeah I remember a book that was interesting called here's looking at Euclid. It mentioned that in these small isolated tribes people didn't really count how many kids they had just that the kids were everyone's kids. The phrase it takes a village comes to mind. I'd be down for helping to raise kids too just as long as we all clear on rules like discipline and rewards for the kids if that makes sense. I don't want to undermine anyone or be undermined in my authority.
Yeah definitely. Opening that kind of stuff up into a more social space means moving to more social approach to our kid' discipline, diet, media content, etc. with some agreements in place. Although it's not like this doesn't happen anyway - grandparents are notorious for spoiling kids behind the rents' back.
Remember a boomer music teacher saying they spoil the grandkids to get back at their own kids, joking yes but not really.