This seems remarkably high. Is this including "cheating", the very name of which implies it's not considered ok?
> A YouGov poll of more than 23,000 Americans finds that about a quarter (25%) of Americans say they would be interested in having an open relationship.
https://today.yougov.com/topics/society/articles-reports/202...
"On a scale where 0 is completely monogamous and 6 is completely non-monogamous, how would you describe your current relationship?"
The results were:
0 (completely monogamous) 71%
1 4%
2 3%
3 4%
4 5%
5 2%
6 5%
Not sure 6%
* Occasionally kisses other people
* OK with oneself and SO dancing with other people with physical contact
* One of the members of the partnership does some form of sex work (including phone-sex operator, webcam peformer, exotic dancer, etc)
* Occasional threesomes
None of these would be monogamous by some definition, but some would consider these different from a style of nommonogamy where someone dates entirely separately from their partner(s)
No ring, no alimony and no child support has free love written all over it in the 21st century.
Its obvious that it takes a lot of synergy nowadays to not be a statistic :)
For most of us, I think it's generally accepted that unless both parties explicitly say they want to be in a relationship, they aren't in one. Sex by itself means nothing with regard to the actual status of the relationship.
I and a lot of my friends have been in/are in open or semi-open relationships.