Re: [UUPoly-L] Too many circles, lines, triangles.....

[John Ullman <jsu627@earthlink.net>]

David VanHorn wrote:           (On 06:58 AM 12/5/2006)
> >
> >
> > 1. The practice of poly, swinging, etc. This would be the formal
> > definitions, i. e. the Morning Glory Zell definition of poly which is
> > roughly multiple, concurrent, consensual, sexual, loving, relationships.
>
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> I would even drop "sexual" from the list there. I don't see any requirement
> that they be sexual though they certainly can be.  I have an intimate
> relationship with J that used to be sexual, but we brought that to a close,
> and we continue just as intimate, without being sexual.

Do you advocate continuing to call an ex wife a wife? IMHO, if a 
relationship stops being sexual, but love is still there, it becomes 
platonic. MG Zell's original description of poly included sexual. 
When I say I have poly relationships I mean my relationships which 
are currently sexual, not may or may not be sexual. If you don't like 
"platonic" for a love, but not sex relationship, then propose another 
word for it, rather than destroy the sense of poly.

John U