Degenerates Twist Themselves Into A Pretzel To Justify Sleeping Around

Have you heard of “ethical non-monogamy”? What about “polyamory”? Does “throuple” ring a bell? 

If not, permit me to summarize the above terms: Being a pervert. There’s hardly been a better time in history to be a pervert, really. Sexual deviancy is regularly packaged in social justice terminology and presented as praiseworthy. 

New York magazine’s The Cut offers a masterful example of such repackaging with a recent headline: “Could Opening Your Marriage Lighten Your Mental Load?” 

Erica Schwiegershausen, a senior writer at The Cut, spoke to a married mother in an “open marriage.” That is, a marriage in which both spouses are permitted to sleep with people other than their spouses. (RELATED: Polyamorous Relationships Rapidly Gaining Gov’t Blessing) 

Olivia (a pseudonym) and her husband Will decided to “reopen” their marriage seven years after becoming parents, shortly after Olivia “met up with an ex for coffee.”

I suppose Olivia’s actions don’t qualify as cheating. Cheating implies deception or dishonesty on the part of the cheater. Rather, Schwiegershausen describes a man who has willingly submitted to cuckoldry at his wife’s request.

“The most obvious perk of an open marriage is getting to hook up with other people,” writes Schwiegershausen. Exclusive sexual fidelity is one of the defining qualities of marriage. An “open marriage” doesn’t seem like much of a marriage at all.

Oh, Lord. They’re at it again! Being nonmonogamous will help you potty train. Also climate change is causing transphobia (or vice versa…)
New York journalists really want to destabilize your family. Judging from the illustration, esp if you’re black.https://t.co/tbkTPrQliB

— Ann Bauer (@annbauerwriter) March 19, 2026

Schwiegershausen is sympathetic to the idea of so-called ethical non-monogamy as a “co-parenting hack.” She offers examples of non-monogamous moms liberated from stress and guilt. She questions whether non-monogamy is the “the secret to raising kids without completely resenting one’s husband?”

Rather, I’d suggest that the secret to raising kids without completely resenting one’s husband is choosing not to resent one’s husband. 

Schwiegershausen’s anthropological horror story continues with Danielle, a mother of two. 

“She started going out on dates four or five months after her daughter was born, wearing two bras to avoid milk stains. When her husband told her she was beautiful, she’d roll her eyes — it felt like he had to say that. ‘But having another man finding me attractive turned on my desire again,’ she says.” 

Danielle has a sizable social media presence, with over 60,000 followers on Instagram and over 220,000 followers on TikTok. Danielle claims she has been in an “open relationship” for 15 years. Her social media is dedicated to sharing “stories and lessons learned from non-monogamy.” 

Danielle does not seem like a wise woman. Still, I’m amazed that any mother would subject her children to such public humiliation. Imagine the “yo mama” jokes. (RELATED: Modern Dating So Dire, Men Competing For Cheating And Allegedly Abusive Single Mom Of Three) 

Schwiegershausen spoke to Maya, another married woman who is sleeping around. 

“… Maya and another husband were spending more and more time alone together. When she got pregnant, their sex only got hotter.” 

“‘He was so into the pregnancy and how my body was changing,’ she says. Sex with him was erotic in a way that wasn’t possible with the father of her child: ‘It really made me see myself in a very different way.’”

I’m not sure how to sum up my disgust in polite terms.

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