Polygamy in Primetime

Bennion, Janet

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“…Of those who had children, there was a tendency to find childcare within the polycule and with others in the poly community, rather than pay for childcare outside the group. This is true of what I found in polygamy groups, as well, where women would rely on each other to babysit their children while they ran errands, attended college classes, or worked part-time (Bennion, 2012). 9 Education levels were also above average (66% highly educated (graduate level degree), 22% undergraduate, 12% high school), suggesting, especially among the cis-gendered whites, that class privilege is indeed correlated to polyamory (Klesse, 2013).…”

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confidence: 76%

“…Iwanowska (2018) of a small subset of polyamorists, testing the strength of metamour connections. There was also a limited graph (tree) application of kingdom building in Mormon polygamy (Bennion, 2012) and M. Burton’s (1981) analysis of polygamy and agriculture, using a log/linear analysis, a multivariate technique that tests for bivariate relationships among culture, polygyny, and female labor participation. In the non-scholarly world, there was a fictive lesbian poly network mapped by the makers of the television series, the L Word, and a self-designed program created by two members of the Paris polyamory group, called Rhizome, depicting the varied links of sex, love, childcare, and BDSM, among 78 participants.…”

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Polyamory in Paris: A social network theory application

Bennion

2020

Sexualities

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Multiple sexual partnerships can be viewed as networks in order to assess the nature of links between lovers and metamours (lover’s lovers) as well as the larger population. In such non-monogamous networks, where participants share sex, friendship, ideas, and economic resources, there exists a vast web of nodes connected in much more intimate and complex ways than one finds in the mono-normative landscape. This study explored gender dynamics in network centrality on a sample of 62 polyamorists in Paris, France using participant-observation, informal and structured interviews, and social network analysis. Though evolutionary psychology and pornographic film tend to reinforce heteronormative stereotypes of males as central social actors with multiple sexual partners and women as sexually passive, feminist theorists have argued for a more “agentic female sexual subjectivity”. My data showed that cis- and trans-women, with a strong sense of family and skills in interpersonal communication, score highest on network metrics of density/degree, homophily, indirectedness, and transitivity. The network data also indicate high modularity and endogamy with clustering tendencies for both cis-men and cis- and trans-women linked to kink, atypical intelligence, sexual and gender non-conformity, and mitigating factors of socioeconomic advantage and racial privilege.

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confidence: 76%

Section: Objectives and Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%