Hmmm...this post seems a little familiar from earlier today! u/tosser_5409, I know we went our separate ways in the last conversation, but I'll bite...really, I'm not a toddler, and enjoy diplomatic discourse. Thanks for the jab though.

The best part about this discussion is it's extremely dynamic at this point in history. There are no universal hard and fast rules. There is no governing committee that sets the actual definitions and ideologies behind these alternative lifestyles. With that said...here is a quick diagram that shows how we (my spouse and I) have defined everything for ourselves: http://imgur.com/H7Vn3g3

I didn't expand on the unethical side of that diagram, because we're not really talking about that. And I listed the ethical stuff in no particular order. For what it's worth, my spouse and I are swingers first. But the reason we put all of these activities under the umbrella of polyamory (or many loves) is because of the insufficient definition of Love. What is love? What does it mean when we say we "love" something? I love tacos, I love my cat, I love my spouse, I love my kids. And what does it mean to have many loves? Google searching the word love brings up myriad definitions...many of which we feel are absolutely valid in their application to polyamory - strong affection, warm attachment, affection, sexual embrace, amorous episodes, to name a few. And, the application is very much constrained by culture as well.

So, when