Season 1, Episode 17: Making Agreements

Claire and Sebastain, 2 polyamorous people, are talking about making agreements. After fangirling over a great definition of consent - ‘the active collaboration for the pleasure and well-being of all concerned’- Claire and Sebastain talk about the power of making explicit our agreements. Avoiding legalistic hair splitting, moral condemnation, manipulation, and loophole-finding and figure out how to start making the agreements you need to open up your relationship.

Show Notes:
Social Contact Theory is well introduced in Ethics in Law Enforcement by Steve McCartney and Rick Parent 
The difference between agreements and rules by poly coach.
Kitchen Table Polyamory is defined in Jess Mahler’s 2016 article.
One Penis Policy is described here as a version of Polygyny 

Season One of Poly Pages is reading Hardy, J. W., & Easton, D. (2017). The ethical slut: A practical guide to polyamory, open relationships and other freedoms in sex and love (3rd ed.). Berkeley, CA, CA: Ten Speed Press.

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