The Next Future Marriage Classifications

Monogamous, Polygamous or Polyamorists? Sure all types of relationships have existed, exist and will continue to exist. In fact this list could easily be expanded or delineated into its various forms. What is notable with the new definitions of ‘Christianized’ Western Culture ‘marriage is that there is a peeling back of the Christian facade covering the current culture.

The Brussels Journal said there was little flap over the Dutch trio-marriage of one man with two bi-sexual wives. What is striking is the so-called polyamorous description. In a traditional marriage there is an exclusive sexual relationship between one man and a woman. This could be symbolized by a ’straight’ line where there is that one connection. In a polygamy it would be represented by a ‘V’ where one man had sexual relationships with two (or more) wives but the partners didn’t have any sexual relationships with each other. What the Next Marriage expansion did was to bring to the forefront a ‘marriage’ where each partner is sexually involved with all the others in the marriage. In this case it would be represented by a triangle.

Polyamorists would call the De Bruijn union a ???triad.??? In a polyamorous triad, all three partners are sexually connected. This contrasts with a three-person ???V,??? in which only one of the partners (called the ???hinge??? or ???pivot???) has a sexual relationship with the other two. So the bisexuality of Bianca and Mirjam classifies the De Bruijn union as a polyamorous bisexual triad. In another sense, the De Bruijn marriage is also a gay marriage. The Bianca-Mirjam component of the union is gay, and legalized gay marriage in Holland has clearly helped make the idea of a legally recognized bisexual triad thinkable.

While the love triangle marriage gave little reason to raise eyebrows in progressive Europe, the ‘traditional’ (??) polygamous family which has 30 children from one man who has three wives. Recreational pleasure seems easier to take than the procreational aspects which caused a population boom by one ‘family’.

Stanley Kurtz (quoted throughout the Brussels Journal has this quote which I find most insightful to the possible future of marriage.

It???s easy to imagine that, in a world where gay marriage was common and fully accepted, a serious campaign to legalize polyamorous unions would succeed ??? especially a campaign spearheaded by an organized bisexual-rights movement. Yet win or lose, the culture of marriage will be battered for years by the debate. Just as we???re now continually reminded that not all married couples have children, we???ll someday be endlessly told that not all marriages are monogamous (nor all monogamists married).

It is becoming obvious that the future of marriage, unless something drastic happens, what has happened in Europe will again find its way to America.

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