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[personal profile] innerbrat 2010-08-09 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I think my thinking is along the same lines.

I differentiate between 'relationships' and 'sex'* in which the former defines your familial state (with or without children - a committed, long term partnership of two or more adults is still a 'family'), and the other is no one's business but your own.

To me, monogamy is a state of being in a committed life partnership with one person. Whether sex happens outside (or even within) that relationship is no ones business except the people having (or not having) the sex.

*Academically at least. I am not comfortable with sex outside my own, monogamous relationship. I consider this a function of my own issues with sex and relationships.