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Im interested to know.
What exactly is the difference between polygamy and polyamory?
Other than the obvious technicalities that one translates to 'many marriages' and the other 'many loves'.
They seem to be the same to me... In the same way 'omnisexual' and 'pansexual' ended up merging.... Im very stupid when it comes to this.... Transforming old-age terms into new age terms because we don't like the association cultures and religions have slapped onto them.
I mean. TECHNICALLY. Polygamy still labels individuals who are united or married with multiple other people.... And if polyamory is literally just... loving many others. Then.. What is there to legalize/illegalize? Hah. Having consensual sex with as many people as you want has never really lead to arrest. Just very pissy women who find out their husbands have been cheating.
So if there is a major difference that I don't know about other than:
A.) one sounds glittery and cooler than the other.
B.) one doesn't give us mental images of hairy old foreigners collecting as many P.Y.Ts as they can fit on the wedding aisle
then I legitimately want to know.
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