{"id":291387,"date":"2016-09-01T17:11:13","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T21:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=291387"},"modified":"2021-01-09T17:17:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T22:17:16","slug":"right-to-free-love-activists-fight-for-polyamory-to-be-recognized-as-sexual-orientation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/right-to-free-love-activists-fight-for-polyamory-to-be-recognized-as-sexual-orientation\/","title":{"rendered":"Right to \u2018free love\u2019: Activists fight for polyamory to be recognized as sexual orientation"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
Yes!!! Support them and the right to live the sexual or sentimental life of your choice, with as many people as you wish, without any marriage, civilian or religious, without it being \u201csanctioned\u201d or \u201cofficialised\u201d by any authority. Freedom!<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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The ever-growing acronym of LGBTQI might be adding a \u2018P\u2019 if polyamorous rights activists get their way and become officially recognized as a sexual orientation.<\/p>\n

The term, which means\u00a0\u2018true love\u2019\u00a0in Latin and has been described as\u00a0\u201cconsensual non-monogamy,\u201d\u00a0describes those who have more than one sexual partner, but only if all those involved are aware and supportive.<\/p>\n

The model of nuclear relationships involving cisgender men and women having a few children and settling down for life faces competition from the emergence of other orientations into the mainstream, prompting discrimination, intimidation, and violence from those threatened by the redefinition of what\u2019s considered to be\u00a0\u201cnormal.\u201d<\/p>\n

The polyamory community has experienced some of that backlash and, as a result, certain activists want to receive the protections offered to their gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer counterparts.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Vice, polyamorist Melissa Marie Legge said she always knew she was different.<\/p>\n

\u201cConsensual non-monogamy gives me the freedom to involve people in my life on my own terms and to negotiate relationships individually and contextually without having to follow a social script,\u201d\u00a0she said.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s something that I value highly and that I would say is a big part of my sexual identity overall.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the US, around 500,000 people are believed to be in polyamory relationships, according to\u00a0Newsweek.<\/p>\n

Across the border, the Canadian Polyamory Advocacy Association, which calls for the rights of the\u00a0\u201cPoly Majority,\u201d\u00a0says the community has\u00a0\u201ccustom-made\u201d\u00a0relationships.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe every adult should create her own relationships,\u201d\u00a0the group says on their\u00a0website.\u00a0\u201cNo loving, life-enhancing possibility is out of bounds. That means women or men can have more than one partner\u2026 if everybody involved agrees it\u2019s best for them. That\u2019s not empty theory; we live all gender combinations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many of the same religious conservatives who oppose the LGBTQI community are against poly relationships, but recognition of poly as an orientation has also faced push back from the popular sex columnist Dan Savage, who identifies as gay, when he said polyamory is \u201cnot a sexual orientation… it\u2019s not something you are, it\u2019s something you do.\u201d<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.rt.com\/viral\/357799-polyamory-recognized-sexual-orientation\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Yes!!! Support them and the right to live the sexual or sentimental life of your choice, with as many people as you wish, without any marriage, civilian or religious, without it being \u201csanctioned\u201d or \u201cofficialised\u201d by any authority. Freedom!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":291388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}