These reasons include honesty, women gaining access to multiple partners, and the challenge CNM poses to conventional heterosexual nuclear families

Traditional monogamy was a practice in which very young women and men married as virgins and were each-others’ sole partner for life, becoming celibate when the other died

Having sex for pleasure or recreation is immoral – according to many Christian religious traditions

there are at least three real reasons for this deviance assigned to polyamory, including honesty, women negotiating access to multiple partners, and the challenge it poses to heterosexual nuclear families

he most popular academic books on the subject of love and relationships are based on theories that describe the dynamics of monogamous relationships

They consider people who are polyamorous as devoid of the significant psychological resources necessary to establish good relationships

psychologists and sexologists perceive polyamory as incompatible with the principles of healthy love

it is conceivable that these relationships could be more likely to pass for monogamous partnerships or cover an individual’s polyamorous identity than secondary relationships, providing one potential reason for more acceptance from family for primary relationships

highlighted the fact that polyamory is not widely accepted and is a socially stigmatized relationship

Approximately 25.8% of individuals who practice polyamory have experienced discrimination