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29 N.Y.U. Rev. L. & Soc. Change 277 (2004-2005)
Manogamy's Law: Compulsory Monogamy and Polyamorous Existence

handle is hein.journals/nyuls29 and id is 287 raw text is: MONOGAMY'S LAW: COMPULSORY MONOGAMY AND POLYAMOROUS EXISTENCE' ELIZABETH F. EMENSt I. Introdu ction .................................................................................................. 2 78 II. Com pulsory M onogam y ............................................................................... 287 A . M onogam y's M andate ....................................................................... 287 1. The Western Romance Tradition ................................................. 288 2. Stories from Biological Anthropology ........................................ 294 B . M onogam y's R eality ........................................................................ 297 1. The Failures of Supermonogamy ................................................ 297 2. The Failures of Simple Monogamy ............................................ 298 III. Contem porary Polyam ory ........................................................................... 300 A . Term s and M odels ............................................................................. 303 B . R elationships ..................................................................................... 309 1. A Woman with Two Husbands: April Divilbiss .................... 310 2. A Four-Partner Family: Eddie Simmons .................................... 312 3. A Mormon Wife: Elizabeth Joseph ............................................. 317 4. An Ethical Slut: Dossie Easton .................................................. 318 C . T heory ............................................................................................... 320 1. Self-K now ledge .......................................................................... 32 1 2. R adical H onesty .......................................................................... 322 3. C onsent ....................................................................................... 324 4. Self-Possession .......................................................................... 325 5. Privileging Love and Sex ............................................................ 328 IV . The Paradox of Prevalence ......................................................................... 330 A. Possible Factors in Response to Polyamory ...................................... 331 1. This title borrows from Adrienne Rich. See Adrienne Rich, Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence, 5 SIGNS 631 (1980). t Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law, University of Chicago School of Law, 2003-05. J.D., Yale Law School, 2002. Ph.D. in English, King's College, University of Cambridge, 2002. I am grateful to the following people for their contributions to the development of this project: Lisa Van Alstyne, Ian Ayres, Katharine K. Baker, Brian Bix, John Bronsteen, Mary Anne Case, Derek Dom, Moon Duchin, J. Richard Emens, Katherine Franke, Carolyn Frantz, Kent Greenfield, Philip Hamburger, Bernard Harcourt, Adam Hickey, Morris Kaplan, Amy Kapczynski, Gregory Khalil, Sarah Lawsky, Liz Loeb, Sam Miller, Martha Nussbaum, Brett Phillips, Eric Posner, Jeff Redding, Bill Rubenstein, Natasha Rulyova, Reva Siegel, Rachel Smith, Sonja Shield, Stephanie Stem, Geof Stone, Lior Strahilevitz, Jeannie Suk, Julie Suk, Cass Sunstein, Beatrice Wolper, Kenji Yoshino, and participants in workshops and classes at UCLA, the University of Cambridge, the University of Chicago, and Yale Law School. I also wish to thank the excellent staff of the N. Y. U. Review of Law & Social Change, especially Sonja Shield and Kate Griffith, and of the D'Angelo Law Library at the University of Chicago, especially Greg Nimmo. All errors and omissions are of course my own. 277 Imaged with Permission from N.Y.U. Review of Law and Social Change

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