Dr. Eli Sheff is an Educational Consultant and Expert Witness Serving Sexual and Gender Minorities.
In my most recent blog on Psychology Today I explore the reasons why people might to come as polyamorous out at work — or not — the issues it might bring up, and how to deal with them.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-polyamorists-next-door/201710/polyamory-work
Sheff’s television appearances include CNN, and the National Geographic, and she has given more than 20 radio, podcast, print, and television interviews with sources from Radio Slovenia to National Public Radio, the Sunday London Times to the Boston Globe and Newsweek.
Hello Elisabeth – Can you help us to find a number of how many are polyamorous in the USA? Can anybody else help?
Hi Gregor, The best answer I have formulated so far is here https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-polyamorists-next-door/201405/how-many-polyamorists-are-there-in-the-us
I recently read some research, I think it was Terri Conley at the University of Michigan but I am not sure right now,that showed some incredibly high number of people had been in a consensually non-monogamous relationship at some point in their lives. Reading that research made me want to update that post on Psych Today, but I was involved in something else at the time and have not yet gotten to it. So thanks for the poke, I am happy to get to that post as soon as I finish these other 253 things 🙂
If you beat me to it and find the Conley research on lifetime engagement in CNM, please send me the cite.
Cheers,
Eli