Deconstructing the Ideal of Fidelity: A View from LGB Psychology. Issue 1 (26th November 2012)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hegarty, Peter
• Is Part Of: Analyses of social issues and public policy. Volume 13:Issue 1(2013)
• Page Start: 31
• Page End: 33
• Publication Date: 2012-11-26
• Subjects: Social policy -- Psychological aspects -- Periodicals; Social psychology -- Periodicals; 361.6105
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-2415.2012.01298.x
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1529-7489

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main"> <title> <x xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <p>This commentary on The Fewer The Merrier (TFTM) adopts a lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) lens. Although LGB people commonly construct successful consensual nonmonogamous (CNM) relationships, the focus on opposite‐sex relationships obscured some aspects of U.S. society that are actively resisting the stigmatization of CNM relationships. I call attention to the historic ways that "adultery" has been legally defined in gendered terms, and argue for an analysis of social stigma that engages substantively with qualitative research about how CNM is lived among people of diverse sexualities.</p> </abstract>