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stonebenderSubject: We're famous! (Sorta)
loracs found this in a novel given to her by a friend. The author clearly hasn't read alt.poly and is clueless on the subject. Yet, I got a kick out of it. In the same way I get a kick out reading a book set in a place I'm familiar with or a movie shoots in a place I know.
(a Mommy-Track Mystery)
During the investigation of a murder, the main character finds the husband is having an affair with someone he met on-line in alt-poly.
Snippet:
"Turns out this creep is sleeping with this woman, Nina Tiger, or "tigress," as she likes to call herself. They met about a year ago on a newsgroup for people interested in polyamory."
"Poly what?" [main character's husband responds]
"Love relationships among more than two people."
"Ick."
"My feelings exactly. Anyway, they met on the Web, and pretty soon were having very public and very raunchy Internet sex. Finally, it wasn't enough for them. They decided they needed to consummate their cybersex. The whole time, mind you, they kept the entire population of their newsgroup apprised of every single sordid detail of their relationship. They started sleeping together, sneaking around behind Abigail's [the murdered wife] back.
Within a couple of months, the newsgroup freaks started hounding them. Remember, the whole point of this movement or whatever it is is that they are supposed to by polyamorous, not just adulterous. Tigress and Coyote - yes, that is indeed his nom de guerre - finally succumbed to the pressure and decided to include Abigail in their little love nest or cesspool, whaterever you want to call it. And, get this, they decided, with the help of their comrades in arms - and legs, for that matter - that the best way to get Abigail to go along with their multiple-partner thing is to have her walk into her bedroom one find day and find ol' tigress and Coyote waiting there, buck naked."
"Are you kidding?"
"Nope. They planned their moment, and one fine evening there they were, waiting for Abigail when she walked in from work. Surprise, surprise. Abigail was less than thrilled with the little Wild Kingdom tableau awaiting her. In fact, she freaked out - which, by the way, totally confused everyone in the newsgroup, all of whom apparently were under the impression that she would rip off her clothes and jump into the sack with the fabulous twosome."
loracs found this in a novel given to her by a friend. The author clearly hasn't read alt.poly and is clueless on the subject. Yet, I got a kick out of it. In the same way I get a kick out reading a book set in a place I'm familiar with or a movie shoots in a place I know.(a Mommy-Track Mystery)
During the investigation of a murder, the main character finds the husband is having an affair with someone he met on-line in alt-poly.
Snippet:
"Turns out this creep is sleeping with this woman, Nina Tiger, or "tigress," as she likes to call herself. They met about a year ago on a newsgroup for people interested in polyamory."
"Poly what?" [main character's husband responds]
"Love relationships among more than two people."
"Ick."
"My feelings exactly. Anyway, they met on the Web, and pretty soon were having very public and very raunchy Internet sex. Finally, it wasn't enough for them. They decided they needed to consummate their cybersex. The whole time, mind you, they kept the entire population of their newsgroup apprised of every single sordid detail of their relationship. They started sleeping together, sneaking around behind Abigail's [the murdered wife] back.
Within a couple of months, the newsgroup freaks started hounding them. Remember, the whole point of this movement or whatever it is is that they are supposed to by polyamorous, not just adulterous. Tigress and Coyote - yes, that is indeed his nom de guerre - finally succumbed to the pressure and decided to include Abigail in their little love nest or cesspool, whaterever you want to call it. And, get this, they decided, with the help of their comrades in arms - and legs, for that matter - that the best way to get Abigail to go along with their multiple-partner thing is to have her walk into her bedroom one find day and find ol' tigress and Coyote waiting there, buck naked."
"Are you kidding?"
"Nope. They planned their moment, and one fine evening there they were, waiting for Abigail when she walked in from work. Surprise, surprise. Abigail was less than thrilled with the little Wild Kingdom tableau awaiting her. In fact, she freaked out - which, by the way, totally confused everyone in the newsgroup, all of whom apparently were under the impression that she would rip off her clothes and jump into the sack with the fabulous twosome."
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Date: 2005-10-30 05:14 pm (UTC)Just feeling the need to ask said author why she didn't _research_ said group before writing this book...
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Date: 2005-10-30 05:18 pm (UTC)"Very curious as to how autobiographical this book is! Many of the facts of Juliet's life match those that I know of Waldman's;
--- Both Harvard Law grads
--- and former public defenders
--- who quit work to become SAHM's (or maybe WAHM's)
--- both married to men in nontraditional writing jobs (Chabon - Pulitzer-winning author of Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. Peter, screenwriter)
--- both hubbies interested in comics, action figures
--- Neither Juliet nor Ayelet took hubby's last name
--- both live in upper echelons of large Californian cities"
(http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/157490552X/103-9406170-2177410?v=glance&n=283155&v=glance)
Might explain a lot about her opinion of a.p, if the book is even partly autobiographical... (ie, if the way she learned about it was through the poorly translated opinion of someone who _wanted_ to believe that poly people thought cheating was ok)
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Date: 2005-10-30 07:49 pm (UTC)Oh, and