Only this group can take a serious discussion of open relationships and turn it into a discussion about ice cream and virginity!

(Normally we go the other direction.)

Heres my 2 cents on the whole "no sex till marriage"thing: I really didnt wanted to marry a skank, but I also didnt want to marry someone who could not preform sexually...aka ded fish. I by no means am calling my wife a skank BTW. but as a 31 year old guy I think the virginal wife stigma is old and out dated. i blame it all on rap music!!

Just because you have been bedded a few times, it does not make one great IN bed.

But it increases probability by at least a few hundred percent.

Remember TM I was in the Navy and we did go from port to port. you are right though it doesnt make you great in bed....but practice makes perfect right?! that and a heavy collection of "research" material so you can learn new and wonderful moves like "the angry dragon".

You will have to teach me that one at the convention. ;)

I got a Big Ole Bag o' Tricks baby!! ;)

I have a few myself...

"Angry Pirate"

"Frothy Walrus"

and the one I will teach you...

"The Drain Cleaner."

Game on Toots!!!

Do I even want to know?

I think it comes from culture, too, with the idea of "paternity uncertainty." That is, a man doesn't want to raise a kid that isn't his and, until recently, doesn't have any way to be certain it is.

Personally, I could become physically and emotionally attracted to multiple women, but I don't think I could handle the idea of them being with other men. And I'm sure most women couldn't handle the idea of me being with other women.

For me isn't so much about the sex as it is about the emotional connection.

I hold myself to a high standard. I couldn't become emotionally close to anyone but my wife, otherwise I would consider this cheating. I know if I found out that my wife was emotionally intimate with someone other than me I would be more heart-broken than if she was merely having sex with that person.

Well, here's my two cents.

Polyamory is fine by me. Hell, a few net friends of mine are poly, and it doesn't bother me in the slightest. If you love a man and a woman, or two men, or two women, why should it bother me?

That said, I doubt I'm poly... not sure yet, though. If I found both the perfect boy and girl... not sure. Doubt it, though.
However, if I were, I'd talk to my partners, explain about sex, boundaries, friendship, etc., and then see what happened, I guess. The way I see it, love isn't finite - it's a boundless thing, and some people have so much love that it'd be almost unfair to restrict them to loving only one person. Love and sex are things that should be appreciated and shared, no matter the number of people involved.

Never heard of those before, however after one-too-many Tequila's I become a master of a technique I refer to as "The Limp Noodle"

Yes, we have that over here.

I have been exposed to "Whiskey d**k!"