Polyamory, the Ruling Class's Latest Fad - The Atlantic
Americans who most reap the benefits of marriage are the same class who get to declare monogamy passé and boring. Listen to this article 00:00 20:24 Produced by ElevenLabs and NOA, News Over Audio, using AI narration. This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. The chattering class has a new fixation: polyamory. What began as a trickle of discourse a few years ago—as shows including Succession and Scenes From a Marriage streamed open relationships into our living rooms—has become a veritable flood. The past weeks and months have seen stories ranging from wide-eyed to prurient in The New Yorker, The New York Times, the Financial Times, NPR, The Wall Street Journal. At the center of the recent discussions is More: A Memoir of an Open Marriage, by Molly Roden Winter, an unsparing account of a polyamorous life—at least, a polyamorous life as lived by a white, wealthy, heterosexual Brooklynite. More—and the present interest in polyamory more bro
Listen − 1.0 x + Seek 0:00 22:12 This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here . T he chattering class has a new fixation: polyamory. What began as a trickle of discourse a few years ago—as shows including Succession and Scenes From a Marriage streamed open relationships into our living rooms—has become a veritable flood. The past weeks and months have seen stories ranging from wide-eyed to prurient in The New Yorker , The New York Times , the Financial Times , NPR , and The Wall Street Journal . At the center of the recent discussions is More: A Memo
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