"... and so many more possibilities emerge — only one of which is an equilateral triangle. Although the Third slept between us in bed, sat across from us at dinner and walked between us holding both of our hands, the angles in our throuple kept shifting."
From a NYT "Modern Love" essay, "A Throuple’s Tricky Geometry" by Evan Sterrett.
I found this story hard to believe — 3 men and a chihuahua sleeping night after night in a queen-size bed?
One early July morning, I opened my eyes to my boyfriend making out with the guy who had been living with us for the past month. Not really a fan of sex before tooth-brushing, I smiled, mumbled “hot” and turned over....
I see I have a tag for "geometry." When did I ever blog about geometry before?
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It's hard to see how a throuple could last. Each person needs to be into the other two more or less equally and also not get jealous at being left out of the occasional one-on-one that will inevitably happen. If two are fighting, which one does the third console? And how could that not create its own bad feelings?
No, only a couple can be stable over time absent an extreme power imbalance such as you see in polygamous societies.
Three points always make a triangle
TGDR
(Too Gross, Didn't Read)
https://youtu.be/X3Qve4nXMYI
This geometry of a "throuple" (an unknown word, according to Apple) is the basis of the famous three-body problem in astrophysics, which frustrated even Newton's awesome intellect. Newton eventually gave up and postulated the intervention of angels to keep his clockwork universe from blowing a mainspring.
The arrogant ignorance of these perverts seeking to "explore non-binary relationships" is astounding. Do they really believe they are the first to tread that ground, that multitudes of failed attempts to defy Nature do not litter the backroads of history? Just like in Newton's problem the third body inevitably gets ejected into the Void.
Well, at least he wasn't making out with the chihuahua.
Not then, anyway.
Do dogs carry the pox, or is it just monkeys? Asking for a friend.
Modern "Love".
A throuple. As my wise grandfather was fond of saying "what could possibly go wrong?"
I found this story hard to believe — 3 men and a chihuahua sleeping night after night in a queen-size bed?
A Queen?!?! I agree with you, Althouse. A queen mattress is only 60” wide — even if the guy in the middle is always spooning (or being spooned) and the three of them are very skinny, that’s pretty tight.
@Kylos, if the three points are collinear then there is no triangle.
A gay / single-sex throuple is a nothing. All the members weren't going to reproduce, and are dead ending their DNA. They might as well be members of a mountain climbing team, a military, or a gang. They might die on an adventure, die in combat, or die from a disease. Same outcome. Risk-taking males often die these ways.
A reproductive throuple with at least one male and female is a romantic cliché. Love triangle. Jealous woman. Cheating husband. Ménage a trois. These either work or fail based on those involved, but are surely the best source of content for romance dramas. Still, when pregnancy arrives the female(s) involved are highly likely to seek security/grow jealous if they don't have enough assets to survive. But, some Mormons and practitioners of Islam make polygamy work too.
Disgusting.
More trash from the NYT.
And by the way, where do they find these people?
If you lie down with dogs, you get up with dogs.
Three points in a line make a degenerate triangle.
throuple sounds All Modern.. UNTIL you see that they're talking about male homosexuals..
THEN, you remember that male homosexuals are (and have ALWAYS been) Wildly promiscuous.
IF,
your gay partner is (Mostly) confining himself to sex with guys he brings home consider yourself lucky
It seems to me that the person in the middle is in charge.
Just do what feels good. Chances are you'll have no regrets.
The NYT celebrates mental illness and perversion because that’s who their readers are.
Morning titillating tantalizing topics for Trumpsters.
I found this story hard to believe — 3 men and a chihuahua sleeping night after night in a queen-size bed?
Isn't that the sequel to Three Amigos? The movie's not going to be made. Steve Martin and Martin Short as Mexicans is cultural appropriation, and nobody wants to see Chevy Chase ever again.
Wouldn't the point of a throuple or quadrouple be that one gets a night off and some "me time" every now and then? Or that things aren't the same every night? Otherwise, why not just be monogamous?
Men are pigs.
male homosexuals are Wildly promiscuous.
You mean "get to be wildly promiscuous."
Throuple? I'm going to thromit.
All the news that's fit to print? The NYT has now become a porn site.
Triumvirates have a powerful history, but they chose a modern term that is so lame.
Non-monogamous romantic relationships tend not to work for very long. I suppose there are some people who can make it work, but it usually just devolves into infighting and inevitable breakup. It is difficult enough to make a long-term connection with one person with conflicting needs and wants. Adding more people just adds more conflicting needs and wants such that it is usually impossible to come up with a compromise that works. But, you know, monogamy is a tool of the patriarchy or something and no one wants to learn from history, so go ahead make the mistakes that have been made repeatedly for thousands of years.
The human race was born yesterday.
Attention seeking at a premier newspaper. Surely a sign of greatness.
Remember when th seconds predicted that gay marriage would lead to attempts to normalize polygamy? Pepperidge Farms remembers.
To follow up on Big Mike @0700-
The only people who think this interesting are the designers at Southwest, Delta, and the other airlines.
They get three people (and a dog!) into a space 60 inches wide??? How do they do that?"
For the rest of us, just another example of the termite-like purposeful destruction of our culture. Non-productive weirdos doing weird, non-productive things, and the editors of the NYT are instructing us to see this as just another lifestyle.
Society has always had NPW (non-productive weirdos), but until this generation they kept to themselves and were not put up for us to admire or even have to think about, unless we were writing an essay for our Abnormal Psychology course.
Blogger Howard said...
"Morning titillating tantalizing topics for Trumpsters."
Translation: Join me in making fun of people who notice how insane the mainstream left is.
Fail.
At least two decades ago, well before SSM was in the legal works, a cutting-edge gay friend told me this was becoming a thing. Interesting that it took so long to become a public thing. Like other features of gay culture, it probably had to be suppressed for some time in the interest of the normalizing SSM campaign.
Of course, from a traditional petty-bourgeois point of view, throuples seem bound to be unstable, even "gross." From the point of view of ordinary gay practice and opposition to the strictures of "marriage," it may be a decent compromise, adding a bit of stability in actual relationships while still allowing for plenty of sex, without anyone assuming throupleness needs to last.
The problem is that the one in the middle can't stick his feet out from under the covers.
I was surprised at how eager I was to read an Althouse post about math...and then I saw the words, "From a NYT 'Modern Love' essay."
"The geometry of a throuple is complex. With a couple, there’s only a straight line connecting two dots. But introduce a third point...and so many more possibilities emerge...”
This would be much more interesting if it involved three girls and the Times provided detailed illustrations of how the geometry works.
is there video of them playing 3-car=choo-choo=train?
Do they draw straws? If not, then there is a dominant one and two submissive ones. I suspect the one that has the money rises to the dominancy.
But as a lawyer, I rejoice at the amount of new business this will create. And think of the lucrative church splits and garden variety blackmail cases not to mention the Defense of murder cases.
Triumvirates have always been unstable. They always fall apart.
There was that story from New York about the live-in lover who was allowed to renew the lease when the lessee died. The case was more complicated than high school geometry, though. It wasn't a throuple. The lessee had a long-term relationship with another fellow who had his own apartment (a marriage? I don't know) and a relationship with the roommate. So, more like polygamy (or concubinage?) than the egalitarian, mutual, and reciprocal throuple.
I don't think a stable monogamous relationship is the best way to achieve sexual fulfillment. It is, however, the best way to raise sane children and avoid disease. I guess raising children is not a priority for many gay couples, but avoiding disease should be. ...Do lesbians go in for throuples? That would be pretty hot.
Even hotter would be if women of fluid sexuality went in for throuples with one male. If only life were more like a porn movie....How long before throuples complain about visitation and inheritance rights?
In engineering, a truss is the most stable configuration.
In humans, a three-person group is the most unstable configuration because it's always two against one.
Howard: "Morning titillating tantalizing topics for Trumpsters."
More of Howard's please please please stop noticing how insane we leftists are!!
I feel bad for Howard. With Elon now in charge at Twitter, he and his pals can't ban libs of tik tok anymore.
Tough break for you Howard. Hang in there tiger.
Clearly, if a story appears in the New York Times, it is of interest to more than just Trumpsters. It's also something that everyone can have an opinion about. If it were all Donetsk and Luhansk, weapons systems, COVID statistics, the Fed, and the bond market all the time, you'd get much less participation and much duller discussions.
The holy trinity of the left endorsed by the NYT, et al: sex, particularly aberrant sex; the state; the climate.
not to pick nits (well, TO pit nits), but geometry Is a math so this Should have a math tag too
seriously, though;
isn't this Just a case of a wife being upset because the husband prefers the new girlfriend?
And the wife is desperately TRYING to remain relevant ?
Not to worry wife! the husband will gladly keep you both (for NOW)
Three men in a Queen-sized bed? What, are they all 5' nothing tall?
The classical order presents couple structures and "our Posterity". The politically congruent ("=") order includes couplets, triplets, crossovers, singularities, etc.
Is this from where Monkeypox comes?
So, this woman checks into a hotel and goes to her room. When she opens the door, she sees three bellboys having sex in the bed. She runs down to the front desk and says "I need to see the manager immediately!" to the man at the front desk. The man at the front desk says "I'm the manager, ma'am. What seems to be the problem?"
"Well, I don't quite know how to say this, but there were three of your bellboys having sex in the bed in my room!"
"Was one guy blond, about 6 ft, light skin?"
"Yes."
"And was the next guy black hair, 5 ft 10, tanned?"
'Yes."
"And was the guy on the left 6 ft 2, brown hair, and hairy?"
"Yes!"
"Damn! That lucky Pierre! Always in the middle!"
One topic that came up in the gay marriage and civil unions debates was that people who weren't sexually involved would form civil unions to continue receiving benefits after one partner died. You can see legalized plural marriage as another way to that end, particularly with the childless. Material concerns play a role in family arrangements, as they did with
Mormon polygamy or with young women marrying aged Civil War veterans for their pensions.
"Damn! That lucky Pierre! Always in the middle!"
I'm pretty sure it was Howard. Or possibly, the dog was Howard. Dunno. Hard to tell them apart.
- Krumhorn
Mr Wibble said...
"Remember when th seconds predicted that gay marriage would lead to attempts to normalize polygamy? Pepperidge Farms remembers."
Probably won't happen. The impetus for normalizing L & G marriage, as well as the push for Trans lifestyles, is limiting reproduction, that is, population control. Bisexuals are on the list but are barely tolerated, and polygamists are seen as 'breeders.'
Turned over? What...the Chihuahua's table wine?
That's one way to afford the rent on a NY apartment.
"Not really a fan of sex before tooth-brushing.
Same, same, same. That's why there isn't a single time in filmed entertainment when I see a couple waking up in bed and immediately kissing that I don't think, "Come on, morning breath."
But in hundreds of depictions, I've never seen any character indicate in any way that their loved one's mouth doesn't smell like roses. My theory is that filmmakers believe, probably with cause, that if you show a character with bad breath, even temporary morning breath, the audience will keep that perception of him/her for the rest of the movie/series.
No body knows the thruples I've seen. No body knows but Jesus..... Uh-oh.
Lycusn(in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum): Consider the Gemini: a matched pair. Look at them, gentlemen. Either one a divinely assembled woman, together, an infinite number of mathematical possibilities.
--gpm
At least they don't own a Great Dane.
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