PolyOz

In response to our survey poll indicating strong interest in poly camping trip we have decided hold a weekend event on 14-16 October.

We hope to develop this into a twice yearly event. All Poly Groups / members Invited to attend. Entry is by Donation of $10 per person per night paid on the day to offset costs of camp facilities.

Day visitors are very welcome but we ask a $5 donation per person also pay on the day( bring fold out chairs).

Camping location is a beautiful spot on private property in the Gold Coast Hinterland.
The area chosen if flat , bounded by a flowing mountain creek and quite secluded.We will have a basic camp kitchen, bush showers and loo facilities. You will need to bring all camping gear, food and water, although the river water is drinkable (straight of a national park).

If you have cooking gear please bring it. Small camper trailers may be OK too provided they are behind a 4wd , the 4wd part is about 200 metres long. We will sign the track clearly from the entry off the main road. Access onto the property is fine however access to the camp spot may be restricted to 4wd depending on weather, in any case we will tractor ferry stuff/people down if need be.A few simple rules.people need to clean up afterwords , no rubbish left on site, no fires without checking with organizer first, no excessive drinking. Illicit/illegal drugs are banned, don't bring them please.

We'd like to make this adults only camping for now as its clothing optional / nudism friendly and being the first we'd like to see how the weekend goes.We will look into activities but primarily this is a social event so ALL members can have a nice relaxing weekend away in the company of poly friendly people.We'd like to encourage all members new and old to come along. We'd like to point out this is a POLY social weekend , anyone behaving sleazy or pushy will be asked to leave, Address supplied upon booking in.

Booking is essential so we can allocate spots.

To book in

contact us

... or sms us anytime on 0414 736 253. You can also call us on 0414 736 253 as well after 8.30 pm weeknights or anytime on weekends.

Cheers Gail, Graeme and Simone.

Seems as though polyamory is starting to "come out" worldwide as can be seen by this article from the Jakarta Post

Aside from the huge gasp that reverberates throughout the country, the response toward the sex tape involving television personality Cut Tari and rock star Nazriel “Ariel” Ilham, has been somewhat varied.

Keepers of traditional values were disappointed with what they viewed as “irresponsible” behavior from a wife. Many others criticized her husband for being too soft on her, in spite of an extra-marital affair with another man. But for a large number of trend watchers in Jakarta, the sex tape is more proof that what they term as an “open marriage” is alive and well in the city.

Open marriage, loosely defined as a marriage in which partners agree that each may engage in extramarital sexual relationships, without being regarded as infidelity, is barely a novelty in what is a seemingly conservative society like ours, although it gained less notoriety than the case of polygamy, which has been accepted in the country for decades.

Polyamory is a hybrid word: poly is Greek for many and amor is Latin for love. It has been independently coined by several people, including Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart whose article "A Bouquet of Lovers" (1990) is widely cited as the source of the word, and Jennifer Wesp who created the Usenet newsgroup alt.polyamory in 1992. However, the term has been reported in occasional use since the 1960s, and even outside polygamous cultures such relationships existed well before the name was coined; for one example dating from the 1920s, see William Moulton Marston.

Many of you in in a three way relationship may relate to this article - there are a lot of misconceptions out there as Polyamory Paradigm explains in his Blog

You and me and you, a threesome!
If you have ever had this conversation, raise your hand. . .

Be my Valentine asks Eric Francis Coppolino in his article published @ Chronogram Magazine January 31, 2011

When I first started writing for Chronogram, I succeeded in causing a controversy.

Oh really? you say. And how was that?

Well, I wrote a three-part series on polyamory—that is, on what some call “responsible nonmonogamy” and others call “open relationships.” I guess this was around 1997. It seems like so long ago. I started the first of the three articles by coming out of the closet as polyamorous; I thought it was a good idea to get that fact out of the way. I love relationships and the art of relating, and I like to connect with whomever it feels right to relate to, in whatever way is mutually agreeable. (Trust me, those terms and conditions don’t leave a lot of room for the anarchy you may think is brewing.)

Sometimes, in the course of human events, one needs to go back and clarify one's definitions.  For the term and concept "polyamory," now seems like just such a time: Sex at Dawn has brought the idea of humans as a non-monogamous species into the mainstream, Canada's case against polygamy has brought polyamorous families to the forefront, and people who are interested in multiple intimate emotional entanglements are still struggling to differentiate themselves from swingers.

But polyamory can mean so many things to so many people that some people are struggling to make sure the definition doesn't become too broad.  The Polyamory Paradigm blog, for instance, finds that poly-tantra activist Janet Kira Lessin's descriptions of six-way orgies at the Poly Living Conference seem more swinger-like than poly-like.  Alan at Polyamory in the News has expressed concerns that with the gradual mainstreaming of polyamory, people will try it in uninformed and dishonest ways and make the lifestyle look naive and impossible to those being exposed to it for the first time.  Even Deborah Anapol, pioneer of polyamory in the '80s and author of the original Love Without Limits, allows for the labeling of open or potentially open marriages as "new monogamy."

Single for years but ready for a relationship, journalist Dawn Porter travels the world experiencing some of the extreme ways women find love and live with men.

 Not quite ready to settle down with one man, Dawn Porter explores the world of polyamory, or free love, and lives with people who share their partners. Her journey begins in San Diego, California where a husband and wife run a kind of free love school and try to teach Dawn to open up to free love. Dawn experiments with role playing, some more physical group exercise, and finally a quick session in the school hot tub. Next, travelling to the former Soviet Union, Dawn exposes a Mail Order Bride industry that profits off men hoping to find love in a week.

Having dabbled a bit, Dawn travels to Zegg, a 1960’s style commune isolated in former East Germany, where members live a polyamorous utopian lifestyle. Before she leaves, Dawn witnesses the downside of free love and meets some of its victims. In the end, Dawn herself has the chance to experience one of the most extreme and controversial practices of this strange community.

Then, with international headlines blaring about abuse in the Mormon community, Dawn goes inside a Mormon town and lives with polygamous husbands and wives. Finally, Dawn travels to the heart of Geishadom, Kyoto Japan, where she trains as a geisha and learns the fine art of pleasing men.

Will these experiences teach her more about what she wants to do? What are the costs of living these extreme ways? And does it really make these people happy?

Saturdays at 8:30pm 8.30pm from February 19 on BBC Knowledge

Keeping up with social change is exciting, and important. There is a growing awareness of polyamory as a way to form relationships and families, and it is on the frontier of social change in acceptance of relationships. The more aware and accepting of diversity in relationships the more healthy our society is. It is not to be confused with polygamy, which is associated with religious laws that permit multiple wives, and does not have the same emphasis on an individual’s autonomy and agency.

There was a time, not too many decades ago, when homosexuality was classified as a mental illness, to be out was more dangerous than not, and discrimination was both expected and condoned. To acknowledge a same sex relationship was unthinkable. We have come a long way since then, and still have a long way to go.

Article originally published The Australian November 20, 2010

Three is the new two as couples explore the boundaries of non-monogamy

Polyamory is more widespread than you'd expect and often it has nothing to do with cults or religion

THE Hill-Thompsons* are like any other young family expecting their first baby.

They're buying maternity clobber on eBay, weeping during ultrasounds and giggling when the malapropistic midwife leading their prenatal classes advises them to gouge their birth companions carefully.

There is, however, one thing about the Hill-Thompsons that makes them a little unusual: there are three of them.

Mari (a 33-year-old student doing her second degree), Sara (a 32-year-old uni lecturer) and David (a 35-year-old IT geek) have been a sexually monogamous, three-way unit for six years.

They are not religious, they're not cult members and they're not even that into group sex.

They just happened to all fall in love with each other at roughly the same time.

For the most part, the Brisbane trio have kept the details of their polyamorous private life to themselves. But they are slowly coming out of the closet now Mari is eight months up the duff. Sara is also hoping to conceive in the not-too-distant future.

Telling people about their super-sized relationship is complicated by a lack of unloaded language options. Threesome sounds too sexy and there is no triplicate version of the word couple.

"Usually we just tell people there are three of us," Mari says. "But polyfidelitous might be the best technical term."

Ever wonder what people are thinking of when they hear the word Polyamory? 

We decided to do a little reseach on the internet.........

The following is a list of words that society in general tends to associate with polyamory - these words most commonly appear in internet seaches :-

• polyamory
• marriage
• polygamy