SCOUT· 64%48m·2026-07-30·News PoliticsIs Polyamory Right for You?
Elisabeth “Eli” Sheff is a polyamory expert. When she first heard about polyamorous relationships, back in the early ’90s, hardly anyone was talking about this stuff. But Sheff became fascinated, and for the past 30 years, she’s been studying the lives of kids who grew up in polyamorous families. On this episode of…
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“have never met a beautiful, attractive, cute, gorgeous, or stunning poly person.”
“This seems like literally all this column is ever about anymore; upper-middle class people blowing their lives up with polyamory. Didn’t the Lindy West episode settle this?”
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“You know, as someone who grew up with parents that never had hard conversations with one another or even talked about feelings, I would much rather have healthy poly parents”
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