One could also argue that characterizing people who want casual sexual relationships as commitment-phobic and non-safer-sex-practicing is both prejudicial and non-factual. At least, I would certainly argue so, for the sake of the longstanding relationship commitments I have with two partners who also engage in casual sexual relationships, and whose safer sex practices are beyond reproach.
Here's why *I* care: I worry that when it comes time for large-scale political battles, like formalizing financial commitments for groups larger than two, or simply guaranteeing the standard parental rights for adults audacious enough to have non-standard romantic or sexual relationships... we'll all be here infighting over whether having had a non-romantic sexual relationship last year makes you too immoral to sign our petition.
In any case, I think we're the only ones for it to possibly reflect badly to. The argument "we're not just having sex; we're having relationships" IME doesn't work well for convincing strictly-monogamy-minded people that polyamory is ethical; from my experience, their insurmountable issue with it is not generally sex outside of relationships, but simultaneous sexual relationships, whether casual or committed.
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Date: 2008-06-09 04:21 pm (UTC)Here's why *I* care: I worry that when it comes time for large-scale political battles, like formalizing financial commitments for groups larger than two, or simply guaranteeing the standard parental rights for adults audacious enough to have non-standard romantic or sexual relationships... we'll all be here infighting over whether having had a non-romantic sexual relationship last year makes you too immoral to sign our petition.
In any case, I think we're the only ones for it to possibly reflect badly to. The argument "we're not just having sex; we're having relationships" IME doesn't work well for convincing strictly-monogamy-minded people that polyamory is ethical; from my experience, their insurmountable issue with it is not generally sex outside of relationships, but simultaneous sexual relationships, whether casual or committed.