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A Basic Personal Freedom Library—Freedom of Relationships

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Most of the books Robert H. Rimmer wrote dealt one way or another with interpersonal sexuality, the deleterious effects of our strictured relationships upon ourselves, our children, and society as a body. That the books shown on this page represent only a smattering of the literature available beyond his writing shows the immensity of interest they represent in this severely limited area of our individual freedoms.

There are so many variations and possible applications of socio-sexual relationships that any discussion of it soon boils down to a 'yabut' session (where someone makes a statement and somebody else says, "Yabut."). All of these relationships and potential relationships (including monogamy) are considered 'perverted' by somebody, and something to be desired only by dirty-minded individuals.

None of them, including monogamy, seem any more or less apt to be stable or successful than any of the others. Like any of the best things in life, the choice to gamble on an outcome ought to be up to the individuals involved, requiring only that they arrive at an agreement they can accept the responsibility to uphold and nurture, that they have been completely honest with each other all the way around (and, with themselves), and that they fully understand whatever they are intending to undertake. That kind of understanding only comes with experience, most of which western societies have worked very hard to prevent.

Of a couple of things I feel certain: One is that, whatever kinds of arrangements you can think of, someone in this country already has found a way to do them, and they're not likely to be bragging about it much. If you train your cameras with their telephoto lenses on my house, you will be disappointed to find only one woman and one man, quite often holding hands—and one hell of a lot of books! If you feel that interested, come on down to the house and bring your friends. There's always hot tea to be shared. We've been married nearly half a century, we still love each other, and we'd enjoy some company.

Plural Marriage for
Our Times: A Reinvented
Option?

Choose a button to browse a library room. Let yourself be surprised at what you can find.

Women Can Win the
Marriage Lottery: Share
Your Man With Another Wife

Polyamory: The New
Love Without Limits: Secrets of Sustainable Intimacy

Boston Marriages: Romantic but Asexual Relationships Among Contemporary Lesbians

Our Families, Our
Values: Snapshots of  Queer Kinship

The New Intimacy:
Open-Ended Marriage
and Alternative Lifestyles

Out of the Ordinary: Essays on Growing Up With Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Parents

The Lesbian Polyamory Reader:
Open Relationships,
Non-monogamy, and Casual Sex

The Way We Really Are: Coming to Terms With America's
Changing Families

The Way We
Never Were:
American Families
and the
Nostaligia Trap

Polygamous Families in Contemporary Society

Sex, Love, and
Marriage in the 21st
Century

My own books are below the color bar:

Are there natural ethical reasons against our matrimonial practices? You bet there are, and they go all the way to the roots of creation and existence.

Read The Other Way and the Complete Universe of Memes to see why.

Science Fiction, too:

Witchcraft vs. prudery