Hi there, I'm Lale Arakoglu.

It's Valentine's Day this week, and it's a time where romance is being thrown at us in all these syrupy, very traditional ways.

It's a little bit boring, so we're going to explore a growing trend.

It's polyamory and how it relates to travel.

With me is my friend and journalist Anna Silman.

Anna wrote a piece for business insider about the 2020 book,

Polysecure, which has become, in her words, the new Poly Bible.

And in that research, she dove into the world of polyamory. So, how do non-monogamous relationships vacation?

What got you interested in polyamory?

Because I feel like it's a word that obviously I've always known about,

but it's getting thrown around a lot right now.

Yeah.

I think that polyamory or consensual non-monogamy,

whatever you want to call it, has been in the zeitgeist a lot.

You know, there was a big New York

magazine cover story. There was a New York Times story about a 20-person polycule. It was on Succession,

The White Lotus, Riverdale, you know, from couple to thruple, which is a crazy reality show that

I've never seen. That sounds interesting. It's just, it's something people are talking about a lot.

People are just more interested in exploring non-conventional ways of being in relationships, being in community.

And at the same time, in my own social life, I was seeing a lot of friends who were feeling like the traditional model of like heteronormative dating and coupling

wasn't serving them, which didn't necessarily mean everyone was suddenly in a big polycule and

had five boyfriends or whatever it may be.

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