Emens Flashcards
1
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Five Principles of Polyamory
A
- self-knowledge
- radical honesty
- genuine consent
- self-possession
- privileging love and sex
2
Q
Self-knowledge
A
knowing oneself and emotions
consider one’s identity, recognizing and interrogating emotions like jealousy
3
Q
Radical Honesty
A
definitional to polyamory, openness about relationships
4
Q
Consent
A
consent needs to explicit and detailed, deliberate negotiation
5
Q
Self-possession
A
priority of autonomy, rejection of a “we-identity”
about the self, not the “we”, making one’s own decisions
6
Q
Privileging Love and Sex
A
loving more people is better than loving fewer, engaging in various sexual relations
7
Q
Polyamory
A
we choose and nurture love through deliberate action
no form for the concept of grand passion
no room for the concept of a soulmate]
love needs to be negotiated (deliberate quality)
