491 - What We Can Learn About Love from the Animal Queendom with Owen Ever

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Sexuality, Self-improvement, Relationships, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Education

4.9 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Today we're welcoming guest Owen Ever to the show to discuss insights they have learned from researching the animal queendom's social-sexual dynamics. Ever is a community-oriented artist and educator committed to wonder, history and healthcare justice. They were previously a curator and historian at the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum, worked in HIV support and prevention at a community clinic and were a research associate with the CDC's national HIV behavioral health survey. They are a theatre maker, therapeutic medical clown and find queer joy in birdwatching. If this show is helpful to you, consider joining our amazing community of like-minded listeners at patreon.com/Multiamory. You can also get access to ad-free episodes, group video discussions, bonus episodes, and more! Get access to “What’s Your Jealousy Trying To Tell You?” a workshop by the author of Polysecure, Jessica Fern. Head to heyplura.com/multiamory and enter the invite code “Multiamory” during onboardingPractice love every day with Paired, the #1 app for couples. Download the app at paired.com/MULTI. Multiamory was created by Dedeker Winston, Jase Lindgren, and Emily Matlack.Our theme music is Forms I Know I Did by Josh and Anand.Follow us on Instagram @Multiamory_Podcast and visit our website Multiamory.com. We are a proud member of the Pleasure Podcasts network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.3	I think that I think I've mentioned to you or wrote about that I think a lot about is like the ways that we as humans have opportunity to sort of follow libido into surprising and new relationships
0:47.0	outside of our social sphere.
0:49.0	All of a sudden, you can develop kinship with people that you wouldn't necessarily if your
0:55.4	prerogative was finding your lifelong soulmate partner and that was going to be
0:58.8	the only person you had sex with or if you were limited to only the people within a certain like rank, education,
1:05.6	socioeconomic, language, cultural background, racial background, these things.
1:10.2	And I think animals really show that they disrupt that.
1:13.0	They're like, oh, who's around and who wants to have sex?
1:17.0	And like that is really liberating.
1:19.0	That's really freeing.
1:20.0	And can lead to a lot of revelations about like what your needs are, what your wants are, what your desires are,
1:26.0	what your holdbacks are, what your prejudices are, when you just start to be like, what if sex was this way of getting to know other people. What if I was really open?
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