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Contemporary relationships are in a state of rapid evolution. These changes can and should empower people with the opportunity to develop partnerships based on their own sexualities, understandings, and agreements. This makes it possible to create what Kenneth Haslam, founder of the Kinsey Institute’s Polyamory Archive, has called “designer relationships.” Designer relationships may encompass: people who bond emotionally but not sexually; people who agree to be non-exclusive; single people who have occasional lovers or friends with benefits; multiple partner configurations where long-term bonds exist among all or some; partnerships in which people are kinky and that make room to explore kink. The possibilities are limitless, and thinking about a partnership as something people can craft allows for flexibility and change. Relationships can open and close or have varying degrees and kinds of openness as circumstances demand. In the context of a designer relationship, decisions are made mutually, consciously, and deliberately. Best-selling authors and nationally known relationship experts Patricia Johnson and Mark A. Michaels are exemplars of this life choice, and have studied polyamo

Who reads Designer Relationships : a Guide to Happy Monogamy, Positive Polyamory, and Optimistic Open Relationships?

Author

Mark A. Michaels and Patricia Johnson

Publisher

Cleis Press : Made available through hoopla

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781627781497

Category

self-help

Subjects

Sociology, Gender Studies, Social_sciences

Rating

3.76 / 5 (88 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14