Mic
By Kate Hakala
What kind of relationship do you have?
It may seem like perplexing question — there are different kinds? But in fact, in an era of the growing acceptance of casual sex, a better understanding of polyamory and a curiosity about open relationships, there has never been more freedom and opportunity to figure out what works for you.
Because, as one epic chart shows, the kind of relationship that works for one person may not be the kind that works for someone else.
Settling with one person isn’t the only way: The chart, designed in 2010 by polyamory and BDSM activist Franklin Veaux and recently shared by sex researcher and New York University professor Zhana Vrangalova, demonstrates how much more complicated and nuanced the options are.
“It’s a great reminder that there are different strokes for different folks and no one relationship constellation that works from everyone,” Vrangalova told Mic.
The idea for the chart came to Veaux when someone asked him why we even need the word “polyamory,” when it seemed like a synonym for open relationships and swinging, he told Mic. “This idea seems to assume that there’s really only one kind of non-monogamy, which is kind of silly,” Veaux writes in a blog post on Xeromag. …