Quote Originally Posted by Nightstriker
While I guess it can break down into polyamory I really did not think of it......Must go and do more thinking.....As well as try to prevent brain from exploding.
On a wider front, polyamorous or polygamous relationships tend to be cultural and hence economic which is why it is widely assumed it is a male privelege but that is only because in most cultures the male has the economic power. You have to be able to afford or be financially independant to pursue multiple lovers. In modern western culture the female is just as likely to be financially solvent as a male so it is accepted. However if one digs deeper, women have always have had polyamorous relationships in western culture. Historically in higher stratas of society once the wife had calved a son and a heir and the husband had lost interest, usually because marriage was a business contract, a blind eyes was turned to the female's peccadillos as long as she was discrete and didn't cause social embarrassment. In the lower orders where there was no property involved, there really wasn't any social restraint on a female pursuing her physical pleasures. What we think of as modesty and restraint amongst women, usually belonged to the women of the aspiring middleclasses who was after capturing a gentleman of value. A gentleman with money wasn't going to bestow his wealth on a woman who had been round the houses so to speak. In fact the idea of a woman being modest sexually was a repressed Victorian invention like the word pornography. In the middleages it was even known for ladies with power to kidnap a young lover. Hmm I could go on and on etc etc. So as in vanilla relationships so in D/s relationships I guess.