My college friend group not only drew the "who's having sex with whom" chart, they recorded it as tuples and ran least path analysis algorithms on it.
That's awesome. I actually found one of those sorts of charts from the late 90s while digging through some old gaming books a couple of months ago. Though it included shorthand of the "Person x <-> The entirety of ren-faire" variety, which doesn't make it incredibly amenable to hard analysis.
Here's the thing I really don't understand: why do you care?
My main gripe really is that it serves to muddy the language. I know what someone means when they refer to an object as being of a certain color (philosophical ramblings on the nature of objective reality aside), but if someone refers to themselves as being polyamorous, it's barely enlightening at all. Polyfuckery/swinging/what have you doesn't necessarily involve love (or to my ears at least even imply it), so it's just a bit of a pet peeve when it's used interchangeably with polyamory, which has love as one of the root words in its construction.
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That's awesome. I actually found one of those sorts of charts from the late 90s while digging through some old gaming books a couple of months ago. Though it included shorthand of the "Person x <-> The entirety of ren-faire" variety, which doesn't make it incredibly amenable to hard analysis.
Here's the thing I really don't understand: why do you care?
My main gripe really is that it serves to muddy the language. I know what someone means when they refer to an object as being of a certain color (philosophical ramblings on the nature of objective reality aside), but if someone refers to themselves as being polyamorous, it's barely enlightening at all. Polyfuckery/swinging/what have you doesn't necessarily involve love (or to my ears at least even imply it), so it's just a bit of a pet peeve when it's used interchangeably with polyamory, which has love as one of the root words in its construction.