Season 9 Episode 18: Is Monogamy A Thing Of The Past?

Dateable: Your insider's look into modern dating and relationships

Yue Xu and Julie Krafchick

Science, Social Sciences, Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.7 • 910 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Listen as we talk to Cathy about her journey from saving herself for marriage to having multiple partners – at once. We discuss why it’s so difficult to break out of heteronormative traditions, how monogamy doesn’t have to be so binary, and defining your own rules. WE WROTE A BOOK! HOW TO BE DATEABLE (Simon & Schuster) is available now: https://howtobedateable.com/ Want to remove distractions from your dates? Download Brick and get 10% off at https://www.getbrick.app/DATEABLE Our Sponsors: * Avocado Green Mattress: Check out their mattress and furniture sale: https://avocadogreenmattress.com/DATEABLE * Get Rain of Shadows and Endings wherever books are sold or at Kensington Publishing https://www.kensingtonbooks.com * Quince: Get free shipping and 365 day returns at https://quince.com/dateable * Ruggable: Get 10% off your first order, sitewide, with promo code DATEABLE at https://ruggable.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	The dateable podcast is an insider's look into modern dating that the Huffington Post calls
0:04.8	one of the top 10 podcasts about love and sex. On each episode we'll talk to real daters about everything
0:11.2	from sex parties to sex dreptts, date fails to diaper fetishes,
0:14.8	and first moves to first loves. I'm your host U.S.U. former dating coach turned
0:19.3	dating sociologist. You also hear from my co-host and producer Julie Craftchick as we explore this crazy
0:26.0	dateable world.
0:27.0	Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of
0:32.6	Datable, a show all about modern dating. Now in the nine seasons we've done
0:36.9	this podcast we've covered so many perspectives on dating ranging from the
0:41.6	traditional to the non-traditional and of course we've talked
0:44.9	about the stats of people getting married later in life or if that all and to some
0:49.8	are challenging the notions of monogamy while exploring relationships outside this quote-unquote norm.
0:56.4	Kathy is our guest of honor for this episode. She's 34 years old. She's lived in San Francisco for two years,
1:02.0	originally from Huntsville, Alabama and is Holly Amaris. Now this is going to be a very interesting journey story about how you grew up in the South religious to now libertarian sex positive
1:14.8	feminist and polyamory. Let's talk about how this all started. You grew up in the
1:19.4	South, where were your views on dating and relationships when you were younger?
1:23.2	True Love Waits.
1:24.2	So I met one of my boyfriends in high school at an abstinence retreat, actually.
1:28.6	What?
1:29.6	I didn't know there were retreats for abstinence?
1:31.8	There were when I was growing up in Alabama.
1:35.0	Yeah, Southern Baptist.
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