Polygamy isn’t about “freedom”, it’s as much about commitment as monogamy is, just with more than one person.

Many people think that polyamorous people are looking for FREEDOM and DETACHMENT from other people. This is not at all what polyamory is about, at least not to all people. I personally prefer to use the word polyGAMY rather than polyamory, because it clearly states an alternative to monoGAMY, a type of marriage, a commitment shared between more than one person, but that is still exclusive from random partners. I also recognize that just like there can be a polyamorous COUPLE, there can be a polyamorous SOUP, which means that although there is a permanent, committed union between two or more people, they may, in ADDITION, be polyamorous together.

Polyamorous people don’t necessarily seek detachment, although that is not excluded from the possibilities of polyamory – which is why I tend to refer to polygamy when I mean the idea of commitment to more than one person at a time.

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