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My Beginning: A Love Junkie’s Journey into Polyamory
by Michelle Montoro
The last story I shared here discussed some theories on how we as human beings became primarily monogamous creatures. It was meant to set the stage for a series of stories on how I began my journey into polyamory. The next step is to share my personal beginning, my first taste of love and sex, and how it all evolved into my becoming a love junkie of sorts. It is a bit long so I am going to break it into 5 parts.
Part 1: My Beginning
My coming of age happened in the 90’s. There were two presiding beliefs about dating and sex during my generation and in my community. When I was in high school, you were either taking that big jump and giving up your virginity to your boyfriend or you were involved in one of the many religious teenage groups that were preaching no sex before marriage.
When you are a teenager, however, regardless of which school of thought you followed, sex and love sort of went hand in hand. You couldn’t have one without the other. Teenage couples everywhere were having the conversation about how much they loved each other and were beginning to plan their futures together.
If marriage was the intent and the obvious next step then of course having sex was inevitable. Throw in a little bit of peer pressure, the desire to…
