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POLYANDRY

I thought this would be a good
dig at Ayn Rand's _Atlas Shrugged_:
Why don't her iconoclastic, non-
conformist geniuses ever consider
abandoning monogamy, since the
male to female ratio in her
utopian community (Atlantis) seems         In fact, you might wonder
to be about 10 to 1?                       the same thing about
                                           Silicon Valley, since it
Reading                                    seems to have a similar
_The Passion of Ayn Rand_                  ratio.
by Barbara Branden, I
discovered that she                        It would seem like the
actually did                               ideal resolution to any
deviate from monogamy                      romantic triangle, but I
in the way she lived.                      only know of one story
                                           that uses it: a play by
                                           Noel Coward, appropriately
When she was about 40 or so,               enough, titled "Design
She set up an open affair                  for Living".              There's 
between her and a guy in                                             a ref. 
his twenties, Nathaniel                                              to this 
Branden (Barbara's husband),                                         in the 
while she was still married                                          Fountain- 
to Frank (a man closer to her     My reaction:                       head... 
age, forties I think).            "All right Ayn!                            
                                  She went for it!  
The reaction of the other three
people concerned was not at all
good, if you believe Barbara.
No one really wanted it this way
except Ayn, and when Nathaniel
finally broke up with *both* Ayn
and Barbara to go with some
bimbette, Ayn seriously freaked.

So, sometimes it doesn't work.

((Other topics... standard male
fantasy is supposed to be polygyny,
multiple women, one man... funny thing
is it seems to be the common female
fantasy as well.  "All women are
bisexual." as the kid in "Murmurs
of the Heart" says... ))

((West magazine reports that Bisexual
women are in high demand amongst
"swingers"... Bisexual men on the
other hand are avoided like -- ))

((Also Anthropology.
The Nyimba or something.))

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