Dr. Deborah Anapol, co-founder with Ryam Nearing in the early 1990s of
Loving More and author of
Polyamory: The New Love Without Limits (now out of print) has just announced the following:
"...in case you’re still wondering whether polyamory has gone mainstream, I’ve just been asked to blog about polyamory for Psychology Today. My new blog, Love Without Limits: Reports from the Relationship Frontier will be up soon. Please visit me there, offer your own views in the 'comments' section, and share this link with your friends."
No wondering on my part, other poly leaders and I have been discussing and writing about the mainstreaming of polyamory for more than three years now. It's gratifying to see that the polyamory movement has now reached a place where mainstream psychology is taking note and recognizes that this trend is important and substantial enough to warrant regular, high visibility commentary.
Anapol must have a good publicist to land such a plum writing opportunity. Her re-entry into the world of polyamory is also being fueled by publication next month of her new book,
Polyamory in the 21st Century: Love and Intimacy with Multiple Partners, about which I've heard good things and will post a review here once I've purchased and read it. She asked me to write a piece for it on recent polyamory leadership initiatives, which I did. It will be interesting to hear what she has to say about the current state of the practice of polyamory, especially since she dropped out of polyamory circles and remained pretty much silent on the subject for the last several years, seemingly focusing on other things. Younger poly leaders, used to the fast pace of the flow of information via the internet and social networking sites, seem to barely know who she is, if at all. Still, for ten years or so
Polyamory: The New Love Without Limits and
The Ethical Slut (1st ed) by Dossie Easton and Catherine Liszt/Janet Hardy, were the only books available by which to navigate the waters of polyamory. For their existence I will always be grateful, especially Anapol's section on jealousy. We'll see whether this new book has the chops to rate up there with
Tristan Taormino's Opening Up and the vastly expanded and improved 2nd edition of
The Ethical Slut as a staple reference resource on polyamorists' book shelves. If you are one of those polyamorists who knows little or nothing about Anapol and would like to know more, visit her
website.
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