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My Polyandrous Relationship Is Not Taboo
Most discussions of polygamy center on men with multiple wives. What about women with multiple husbands?
Part two of a series on poly lifestyles in Black America. See part one here.
A friend recently reminded me that I was “way ahead of [my] time” in high school.
Aside from the fact that I wrote my final paper on BDSM in our tenth grade psychology class, I was also the first person she knew who had multiple concurrent partners — partners who knew one another and were cool with sharing. She was fascinated by it. She couldn’t get enough of my stories about my boyfriends and that year, for my birthday, she even gave me two books in their honor — one to suit each relationship.
Specifically, I had two boyfriends. Let’s call them “L” and “M.” I had two hot, black boyfriends and I loved each of them in their own way.
M absolutely adored me and I thought he was the sweetest thing ever. He was ever so slightly shorter than I was, brown-skinned with his hair in short box braids (think Larenz Tate in Menace II Society), and had an athletic body that could often be found bouncing off the walls and monkey bars around Washington Square Park.
