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I left a trail of rose petals from the front door, up the stairs, and to the bedroom. I sprinkled some more over the bed. I sat in the corner wearing nothing but her beautiful silk robe with a bottle of vintage wine on ice on the end table. I heard the door open and her walking up the stairs, I wanted this to be the most romantic evening ever. I was quite nervous…
Now all I needed was the perfect way to introduce myself.
”— Hopeless Romantic. (via thisisthehorrorshow)
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WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY’VE CANCELED THE ASTRONOMERS-ONLY DANCE-OFF AND EMCEE BATTLE?
I’VE BEEN PRACTICING FOR MONTHS. MY MOVES ARE TIGHT. MY BODY LOOSE AS A COMET’S ION TAIL. I INTENDED TO STEP OUT OF THE BOOTH SMELLING LIKE BURBERRY COLOGNE, THEN GRIP THE MIC AND SERVE THOSE BASTARDS FROM OBSERVATIONAL COSMOLOGY.
Megan Amram: Quiz: Do You Have Cancer?
Do you have cancer? Find out with this fun, flirty quiz!!
1. It’s the middle of class and your crush looks over to see you:
a. Texting him!
b. Paying attention to the teacher. Come on – it’s class!
c. Picking at a large new mole that has recently developed on your forearm!
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Megan Amram: Shakespearean Spam
URGENT REQUEST FROM MOOR OF VENICE
O Hello !
I am a Moorish prince ! It is with heart full of hope &tragedye that I explain this tragedye.
my wife Desideminna was killed with a stab &and I tragically cannotget in her will which left me many of her possessions: moneyes,…
BY DAYBREAK WE'LL BE GONE: Young Adult novels someone should write
- Bob and Alice are together, but Alice also loves Jill. Oh no! Whatever will they do?? Just kidding Bob and Alice and Jill are polyamorous and live together and it’s awesome.
- Alice is pregnant. Oh no! Whatever will they do?? Just kidding she gets an abortion after discussing the issue with…
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Boy meets girl. Boy and girl fall in love. Boy and girl live happily ever after. It is a very standard formula that everyone has heard. Of course there are substitutions, sometimes it’s “boy meets boy” or “girl and girl fall in love”, but the formula remains constant. Monogamy is taught from day one of socialization, reinforced throughout life by family tradition, pop culture, and the government. But is there only one formula for love?
Meet the working formula that is polyamory. Polyamory literally means “many loves”. Morning Glory Zell introduced the concept of polyamory in her 1990 article, A Bouquet of Lovers. Essentially, Zell gives a new word to the previous term “responsible non-monogamy”. The basic concept behind polyamory is that the amount of love a partner can give and experience is not a tangible, finite amount. Polyamory holds that love is infinite and individuals are capable of loving multiple partners equally at the same time, which may or may not include sexual intimacy.
The free associations most people have after hearing the phrase “multiple partners” fall along the lines of “slut”, “whore” and “promiscuous”. Polyamory seems nothing more than a ploy to give a pretty name to deviant behavior. But Zell clearly outlines in her article the foundation of a polyamorous relationship as being honest and open with all partners involved. It is a common assumption that a polyamorous relationship would be riddled with jealousy, deceit and cheating. Yet those same feelings and events plague monogamous relationships. Dossie Easton and Catherine Liszt, in their book, The Ethical Slut, combat some of these misconceptions: “…[If] something goes wrong in a monogamous marriage, nobody takes that as evidence against the practicallity of monogamy — but if something goes awry in an open relationship, many folks instantly take that as proof that non-monogamy doesn’t work.”
Society has assigned one pattern of loving (heterosexual and monogamous) as not only preferred and morally right, but also politically correct. Who has the authority, though, to assume there is only one formula that everyone should be able to fit into? Monogamy tends to focus on a very romanticized idea of a “better half” and “one true love”, and these concepts do not work for every person. Culture teaches that to be single is to be incomplete, to not raise a family is unfulfilling, and that to express true feelings of love lacks self-restraint and sacrifice. Although polyamory by nature means multiple loving relationships, at the heart of it, polyamory is really about loving oneself first. It teaches not to hide or change the individual for others, but to be honest and accepting of one’s own desires and feelings; then applying those feelings and desires towards a practical and ethical relationship of choice. Polyamory is about creating a formula of love for each person; the factors to that unique equation is up for individual choice, evaluation and implementation.
”— Jeremy LaMaster, “Polyamory”. Quoted from FLY Magazine, a publication produced by students at Penn State. (via brownsugaar)