Published by Dr. Elisabeth Sheff, PhD, CASA, CSE
One of a handful of global experts on polyamory and the foremost international expert on children in polyamorous families, Dr. Elisabeth Sheff has studied gender and
families of sexual minorities for the last 16 years. 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. By emphasizing research methodology and findings in her discussions, Dr. Sheff presents the kind of public intellectualism that encourages audience members to think critically regarding gender, sexualities, and families.
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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