juliaoceania -> RE: Cheating, Lying Kinksters (1/10/2008 2:04:07 PM)
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I have to say, I have never understood the term "cheating" being applied to open relationships or poly relationships. There are plenty of people all over the world that live in these sorts of relationships.... women with multiple husbands (yes, rare, but it does happen), men with multiple wives, cultures that have serial monogamy as the norm are rather common in hunter/gatherer societies that have been recorded. Cheating is when someone is being dishonest with their partner. Cheating implies elements of a lack of consent. Some dictionaries say that adultery is cheating, but what about those societies that allow more than one spouse? Just because we do not allow for more than one spouse does not mean it is wrong, or dishonest to have more than one spouse. Here is my working definition for "cheating?" quote:
1: to deprive of something valuable by the use of deceit or fraud2: to influence or lead by deceit, trick, or artifice3: to elude or thwart by or as if by outwitting I disapprove of real cheating because it deprives a person of knowledge that they need to decide whether or not to continue in a relationship. It is a nonconsensual action on the part of the cheater. In my world of ethics it is wrong to have some partake of my kink nonconsensually, perhaps being exposed to diseases, and forcing them to live an inauthentic life. That being said, I do not think that people who do not live as I do, or by a different ethical code are evil or terrible people, but I do believe that behavior is wrong. I do not believe having open relationships or being poly is at all wrong, and I draw a huge distinction between these situations based upon consent
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