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Open Non-monogamies

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This chapter discusses the recent literature1 on open non-monogamies, or non-monogamous arrangements that are known about by, at the very least, all the involved intimate partners. (This specifically excludes a consideration of the growing parallel literature on secret non-monogamies (e.g. infidelity adultery and cheating) addressed in relation to monogamy and marriage in Ziegler, Conley, Moors, Matsick, & Rubin, Monogamy, this volume.)

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Rambukkana, N. (2015). Open Non-monogamies. In: Richards, C., Barker, M.J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of the Psychology of Sexuality and Gender. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137345899_15

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