“A lot of individuals who want numerous concurrent relationships feel slut-shamed or feel a sense of shame about having that desire,” says Heath Schechinger, PhD, a licensed guidance psychologist at UC Berkeley. “imagine if our culture moved toward giving an answer to polyamory differently? exactly What when we came across it with a feeling of interest as opposed to condemnation and shame?”
For several of us, that’s easier said than done. However for Schechinger, it is exactly that interest that fuels their work—both in personal training, where he focuses primarily on providing support into the consensual nonmonogamy, kink, queer, and gender-nonconforming communities, as well as in their research. He hears great deal about pity, shame, and judgment both in.
If any one of those feelings appear you’re hardly alone for you just thinking about polyamory. Continue reading “A Therapist on Polyamory and nonmonogamy that is consensual”