Answering Anonymous Questions

Anonymous asked (on Tumblr)...

Do you ACTUALLY know of men/women that asked their parents to be their first sexual experience (for whatever reason)? Isn’t that just a sign of people with poor social skills that could not connect with anyone to it had to come down to this?

Yes I do know people who’ve done this. Not one that I know has regretted it.

Make 2019 a Year of Progress

We're making progress. Let's speed it up!

Every adult on the planet should be free to live out their gender identity, sexual orientation, and relationships.

Every adult who has found another consenting adult who wants to marry them should be free to marry.

People should free to do these things without fear of criminalization, bullying, or other forms of discrimination.

Let's move equality, kindness, fairness, and respect forward.

Happy New Year!

The Kardashians Appearing to Be "Incestuous" Is Nothing New

We've been over this before.

It gets a lot of attention when famous people talk about or touch their family members as if there is something sexual between them.

I am positive that there are celebrities who have experience with consanguinamory, including some who want nothing more than to live with their close relative(s) as spouses. But they're likely to avoid calling attention to that, because of the negative reactions, and ridiculous criminal laws that still exist in some places.

Happy Holidays!

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah (belated), Yuletide Greetings, Solstice Salutations (slightly belated), Happy New Year, and Happy Holidays!

Whatever holidays you celebrate(d), or even if you don't celebrate any, We wish you a fabulous season full of warmth and love.

May you and your loved ones have peace, health, and happiness.

I plan to update this blog as I can over the holidays, so keep checking back. Or better yet, subscribe in the column over there on the right if you haven't done so yet.

As a reminder, if you need someone to talk with or you just want to say hello to Keith, you can do so, as always, by emailing fullmarriageequality at protonmail dot com or message him on Wire at fullmarriageequality or on Facebook.

UPDATE: Jane is creating consanguinamory-themed cards. 

When Polyandry is Natural

Many monogamists and some polygynists and even a few polyamorists will assert that polyandry isn't natural. It is Discredited Argument #5 and at thealmagest.com I found another example of polyandry in nature.

Researchers at Bielefeld University and the Technische Universität Braunschweig are the first to confirm the benefit of multiple paternities for a vertebrate under completely natural conditions. Together with their team, Dr. Barbara Caspers and Dr. Sebastian Steinfartz have shown that female fire salamanders mate with several males under natural conditions (so-called polyandry). This grants them fitness-relevant benefits by increasing their number of offspring. The results of their study are being published this Friday (29 November) in the Early View version of Molecular Ecology.

Since humans have sex for many reasons, not just reproduction, it can have other benefits in humans.

Jane Offers Considerations for Coming Out Consanguinamorous

Jane added this to her blog today.

Here’s something that was posted on this blog.

Have you ever come out or been outed by someone as consanguinamorous or involved in a consanguineous relationship? Have you discovered or realized someone else was engaging in consanguineous sex? You can comment below, and if you prefer you can do so anonymously (as always).

Jane Rips an Unjust Prosecution of Consenting Adults

I'm glad Jane got to this one before I could. She perfectly explains the injustice and absurdity of prosecuting an adult for having consensual (to be redundant) sex with another adult.

These laws, where they still exist, are doing terrible damage to the lives of people who aren't hurting anyone.

The Great Tumblr Logoff

Starting at midnight this morning (Eastern Standard Time), countless Tumblr users logged off to avoid using Tumblr for at least 24 hours. Some will never return, at least not unless Tumblr revises their new restrictions, in effect as of today.

Tumblr hosts blogs and allows for easy following of other blogs and reblogging of entries. It was purchased by Yahoo years ago, and, as a result, is now part of Verizon's corporate empire. Probably for advertising purposes and to comply with new laws in various countries, a sweeping ban of material that could be considered "adult" was announced, even though people could already mark their blogs as being "Not Safe For Work" and thus people who didn't want to scroll through such content could avoid it.

Other services have been scrambling to handle the influx of new accounts of "Tumblr refugees" and at least one new service has started specifically to be a place to "rescue" Tumblr blogs by importing them.

For the time being, this blog's sister Tumblr blog, which, like this blog, is intentionally "Safe For Work," will continue on Tumblr as long as it is allowed. Unfortunately, it is likely that hundreds, if not thousands, of the over 11,000 followers we've connected with there will be gone. But we will stay there as long as we're helping people there.

It's sad to see communities, especially where marginalized and oppressed people have found friends and support and reassurance, broken up. Traffic at Tumblr will undoubtedly shrink significantly. Will enough new users join up to offset the defections? Probably not. It is also unlikely petitions and protests will get a full reversal of Tumblr's new terms, but perhaps there will be a revision.

A link to our Tumblr blog will be added to this post after the day of protest ends.

The Ethically Nonmonogamous Are Everywhere

Laken Howard wrote about non-monogamous relationships in the US at bustle.com...

When it comes to dating and relationships, there's no one 'right' way to do things.

That's a great way to start this article. People need and want different things, and more importantly, have different things to offer others. One size does not fit all.

Due in part to the sex-positive attitude of many Millennials, people in open or polyamorous relationships have been able to be more outspoken about their romantic lives than they might have been in generations past. Sure, the stigma around non-monogamy has not entirely faded, but curiosity and polite interest in something is much better than outright intolerance in my book.

For sure!

According to a study published in the Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, one in five Americans has participated in an open relationship of some kind.

Some polyamorous or polygamous relationships are not open. They are ethically nonmonogamous.

New to This Blog or Looking to Find Out More?

We support the rights of an adult, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, race, or religion, to share love, sex, residence, and marriage (and any other union offered by law), and any of those things without the others, with any and all consenting adults, without fear of prosecution, bullying, or discrimination. These are basic human rights and it shouldn't matter who is disgusted by the relationships of other adults or who doesn't understand why the adults would want to be together.

If you're viewing the desktop/laptop version, you'll see that over there in the column on the right you can find ways to connect and to follow this blog, and at the top of the page are tabs with drop-downs of some important pages, entries, and links. If you're viewing a mobile version, many of the links are below.

You are welcomed and affirmed here regardless of your gender, sexuality, or relationship diversities, and whether you are looking for more information, are in the closet or out about your gender, sexual orientation, or relationship, or want to be an ally. Are you here because of polyamory or polygamy? Perhaps you're here because this blog covers Genetic Sexual Attraction or consanguinamory (consensual incest) or because you think or know your partner has been involved? Do you need help? Whether you're a family member or friend who is looking for more information, or a journalist, or are someone who is looking to help the cause, we hope you are helped by what is here.

There's an About This Blog page, and you can read about the triad who originally inspired this blog.

There's a Glossary so that you can become familiar with terms frequently used here.

We explain why we need solidarity in supporting full marriage equality and we debunk all the arguments that you'll ever hear made against equality, so if you're against equal rights, please carefully read through that page.

On the Case Studies page we feature interviews with people who have been denied their rights, so you can "meet" people who are, or have been, in consensual loving relationships who have are harmed by the lack of equality under the law.

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Myths about Genetic Sexual Attraction
Ten Myths About Sibling Consanguinamory
Bad Reasons to Deny Love
Ten Reasons Why Consensual Incest is Wrong (Sarcastic) 

World AIDS Day

December 1 is World AIDS Day. It is very important to remember those we've lost to AIDS, to care for anyone battling AIDS, and to care for anyone with HIV.

We must continue to work for a cure and continue to fight the spread of HIV.

We should also never forget that stigmas, ignorance, bigotry, sex-negative attitudes and shaming have helped spread HIV and AIDS.

Let's continue to work for a better culture in which people aren't shamed and marginalized for their sexuality, nor stigmatized for getting sick.

Attention Outgoing State Governors

There are state Governors in the US who are rapidly approaching the end of their terms as Governor and will be leaving that office.

We are respectfully imploring you to use your executive powers to pardon any of your residents convicted of crimes due to having consensual (to be redundant) sex with an adult under anti-incest laws, whether they are currently in the justice system or not, even if they have since passed away,

Let's be clear. We're not talking about assault or child molestation. We're talking about sex between consenting adults (or between minors close in age to each other), still criminalized in your states. The laws should be changed, but since they haven't been yet, please have mercy on these people.

This plea is directed at the following Governors:

Matt Mead - Wyoming
Scott Walker - Wisconsin
Bill Haslam - Tennessee
Dennis Daugaard - South Dakota
Jerry Brown - California
John Hickenlooper - Colorado
Dannel Malloy - Connecticut
Rick Scott - Florida
Nathan Deal - Georgia
Butch Otter - Idaho
Bruce Rauner - Illinois
Jeff Colyer - Kansas
Paul LePage - Maine
Rick Snyder - Michigan
Mark Dayton - Minnesota
Brian Sandoval - Nevada
Susana Martinez - New Mexico
John Kasich - Ohio
Mary Fallin - Oklahoma

If we've missed an outgoing Governor, we apologize.


This plea is also directed at Governors of US territories: If you have the power to do so, pardon or at least commute the sentences of those listed as criminals due to consanguineous affections.

If you are the Governor or someone on the Governor's staff, or someone with access to the Governor, please act quickly to get this done. We know time is very limited.

There is no good reason these people should suffer any more for having had a physical relationship.

Let's stop wasting public resources on treating these people like they are a threat to anyone. If they were convicted of additional crimes relating to the investigation, their arrest, prosecution, etc., please consider pardoning them of those, too.

Do the kind, merciful, and just thing as you end your term as Governor. Get on the right side of history!

Please pardon!