Bringing something non-human into it is one way to avoid the instability that adding more and more people into a relationship can foster. Not a healthy or good way, but it is a way....
Actually, as a side note (and entirely as an intellectual exercise -- I'm monogamous, date within my species, and taken) I've read from time to time that dolphins will attempt to initiate mating with swimmers if there's enough of a degree of trust/companionship there. If a swimmer were to reciprocate, would it then be consentual? Does the lack of recognized sapience automatically mean consent isn't possible when a species is right on the cusp?
And yes, I know it's a really weird question. I just don't often have a reason to think about polyamory (my friends relationships are their business unless they decide otherwise), much less polyamory with a horse, and I don't want to waste the opportunity.
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Date: 2007-03-15 06:11 am (UTC)Actually, as a side note (and entirely as an intellectual exercise -- I'm monogamous, date within my species, and taken) I've read from time to time that dolphins will attempt to initiate mating with swimmers if there's enough of a degree of trust/companionship there. If a swimmer were to reciprocate, would it then be consentual? Does the lack of recognized sapience automatically mean consent isn't possible when a species is right on the cusp?
And yes, I know it's a really weird question. I just don't often have a reason to think about polyamory (my friends relationships are their business unless they decide otherwise), much less polyamory with a horse, and I don't want to waste the opportunity.