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The New Intimacy: Open-Ended Marriage and Alternative Lifestyles

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At a stage in my life where I thought I was going crazy, this is what I needed. married with children, but not wanting to split my family, I think that open marriage is a great altrnative, and it's great knowing that I'm not alone in this dilema. Only one problem: getting my straying husband to read it!

Ronald Mazur
The New Intimacy:
Open-Ended Marriage and Alternative Lifestyles

(Boston: Beacon Press, 1973) 134 pages

A brief but comprehensive book
dealing with all dimensions of open relationships:
varieties of non-traditional relationships; changing social expectations;
relatives, colleagues, & friends; children;
sexual and sensual problems; pregnancy and STDs;
jealousy and possessiveness; communication and honesty;
moral and religious problems; homosexual relationships;
ending relationships; divorce and divorce-reform.

This is a book of theory rather than practice.
The author believed we were about to enter
a new age of "open-ended marriage".
Even tho no major shifts have occurred,
his careful thinking about multiple relationships is still worth reading.

Search the Internet for similar books:
"Multiple Loving Bibliography".

James Leonard Park, author of
New Ways of Loving: How Authenticity Transforms Relationships.

This is a really basic book. So many better ones around. Not worth reading unless you are very isolated.

What a wonderful book. While reading this book, one can see for herself certainly Poly Amory and Open Relationship education has evolved in a wonderful peaceful, loving mature way. My book was in excellent shape when it arrived at my home. Thank you for a beautiful copy, as well as thank you for carrying this book in your store..Keep up the good work. Peace

The first edition was in 1973. The 2nd was in 2000. It reads like a 1973 hippie idea of marriage.