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- Title
Negotiated Nonmonogamy and Male Couples.
- Authors
SHERNOFF, MICHAEL
- Abstract
One issue that has the potential to confound family or couples therapists working with male couples is the issue of nonmonogamy. For many therapists, sexual nonexclusivity challenges fundamental clinical assumptions that “affairs,” or extra-relationship sex or romantic involvements, are symptoms of troubled relationships and are always a form of “sexual acting out.” This article explores the issue of sexual exclusivity and nonexclusivity within male couples. In order to achieve both clinical and cultural competency in work with male couples, therapists need to challenge their cultural biases regarding monogamy.
- Subjects
NON-monogamous relationships; POLYGAMY; LGBTQ+ couples; SEXUAL intercourse; LIFE partners
- Publication
Family Process, 2006, Vol 45, Issue 4, p407
- ISSN
0014-7370
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1545-5300.2006.00179.x