On “polyamory,” “ethical non-monogamy,” and all the other depressing ways to pretend you aren’t just cheating

Guest Post by Alex Berenson

I read about this wannabe trend so you don’t have to

After Tuesday’s piece on how the United States is headed down the greased pole to the hell that was 1972, only with electric cars and stronger drugs, I decided I’d better read up on the current version of free love.

Aka wife-swapping. Or swinging. Or dropping ‘ludes and balling each other’s old ladies, man.

Spoiler alert: it’s all nonsense.

Nonsense dressed up in fancier names this time, as nonsense will. With a side of what’s good for the gander is good for the goose nonsense this time too. Progress!

But you probably already had figured all this out.

I must confess: I had to cut my research short because the nonsense is so tiresome. I couldn’t even get to the book by the Brooklyn lady who improved her marriage by having sex with lots of guys who aren’t her husband. Yay for her! I’m sure her kids are very proud. (The book’s called More. I’m not linking to it. Find it yourself, if you must.)

But here’s what the New Yorker (not exactly the heart of conservative ideology) had to say about More:

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY – Religious founder Joseph Smith killed by mob – 1844

Via History.com

Joseph Smith, the founder and leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (more commonly known as Mormonism), is murdered along with his brother Hyrum when a mob breaks into a jail where they are being held in Carthage, Illinois.

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