Comments on: 09/13/2017 http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=6883 Tue, 20 May 2025 03:13:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Peter Rogan http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=6883&cpage=1#comment-295832 Peter Rogan Wed, 13 Sep 2017 23:20:22 +0000 http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=6883#comment-295832 And yet we do have polyamory relationships, some of which the participants call 'marriage.' Such arrangements function very much like Antarctic research stations, where select people live in intimate conditions for months on end. It helps to be undisturbed by the mess of other people and to not respond to even deliberate jabs. This isn't a formula most people can live with, hence its scarcity. But group intimate arrangements are a thing today. Just not as joyfully provocative as Heinlein certainly wished them to be. And yet we do have polyamory relationships, some of which the participants call ‘marriage.’

Such arrangements function very much like Antarctic research stations, where select people live in intimate conditions for months on end. It helps to be undisturbed by the mess of other people and to not respond to even deliberate jabs. This isn’t a formula most people can live with, hence its scarcity. But group intimate arrangements are a thing today. Just not as joyfully provocative as Heinlein certainly wished them to be.

]]> By: ronald http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=6883&cpage=1#comment-295831 ronald Wed, 13 Sep 2017 14:49:17 +0000 http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=6883#comment-295831 On another note, it's Sophie, another woman, and a man, right? I'd hardly call two people a "harem." IIRC back in the 1970s both Gene Roddenberry and Robert A. Heinlein presumed that, in future decades, uh, I guess you'd call them "multiple-partner marriages" (of three or more) would be commonplace. Well, not so far. Hey, some people have enough trouble attracting just ONE person... On another note, it’s Sophie, another woman, and a man, right? I’d hardly call two people a “harem.”

IIRC back in the 1970s both Gene Roddenberry and Robert A. Heinlein presumed that, in future decades, uh, I guess you’d call them “multiple-partner marriages” (of three or more) would be commonplace. Well, not so far. Hey, some people have enough trouble attracting just ONE person…

]]> By: llirium http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=6883&cpage=1#comment-295830 llirium Wed, 13 Sep 2017 14:40:47 +0000 http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=6883#comment-295830 Maybe Dije just likes being punny about her relationships and that's all there is to it. Easier to troll friends on an FPS than in person, though... Maybe Dije just likes being punny about her relationships and that’s all there is to it. Easier to troll friends on an FPS than in person, though…

]]> By: ronald http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=6883&cpage=1#comment-295828 ronald Wed, 13 Sep 2017 14:09:28 +0000 http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=6883#comment-295828 Oh, that's such an obvious (if you'll pardon the expression) straight line: "You don't know yourself, Dije? The rest of us should BE so lucky..." Oh, that’s such an obvious (if you’ll pardon the expression) straight line:

“You don’t know yourself, Dije? The rest of us should BE so lucky…”

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