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Originally Posted by janwonders
Question for you; one blogger applicant sounds quite promising but would like to write from a polyamorous point of view (I'd never heard this word before!) basically she has a fiance of 9 years but they both date other people through the internet. Do you think this would work for this site or should I stick with a single girl seeking single guys?
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I have a female friend who is polyamorous, so maybe I can lend a hand here. She was married for 3 years, and would date other guys (openly, not on the sly) and so would her husband. She slept with the guys she dated, and her husband slept with the women he dated. This blew my mind at first, but then I got a better understanding of it after spending some time living on their couch (long story). Basically, to be polyamorous is to accept that you're in love with your husband/wife/fiancee/etc, but that you still have certain, shall we say, carnal needs that require you to go out and chase tail. Poetic, isn't it?
That being said, I think it might hurt your blog to have the main "character" be polyamorous, just because so few people know what it is/what it means (yourself included), and the idea of anything other than the 1950s-Leave-It-To-Beaver famalial unit would probably scare most average people. It seems like a strange concept to them, or worse, seems like the person they're reading about is cheating on their partner, because they have no other way to associate the experience. (Finally, all the years I spent studying psychology in college pay off.)
I'd kindly ask the blogger if she'd be willing to write, but leave out the part about her fiancee and being polyamorous. Just ask her to write her experiences, truthfully, without that bit of backstory.
BTW, I really like the idea for your blog. I've been following this thread since it started, and your idea inspired me to post (My first post on WickedFire, even though I've been coming here for what, a year? Hah, go figure.)
SEO_Mike - is there going to be a No Excuses 3? I was waist-deep in about a half dozen projects when this one started and I didn't have the time to devote to it... I wouldn't have been able to do anything during the 30 day limit. But I'd definitely get down with the next one, now that my schedule is back to "normal".