Reproamory & Rotationship
Some new polyamorous terms we've had sitting on the backburner but forgotten to post anywhere!
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Reproamory: a polyamorous relationship that is initiated for reproductive purposes. A reproamorous person will get involved with more than one person in order to create a biological child, and once pregnancy has successfully occurred, the new member of the relationship stays involved. Here are two examples of how this term may apply:
- A couple that chooses a third person to join their relationship (making it a triad), due to one of them being infertile or being of incompatible sexes for child-creation (such as a dyadic/endosex male-male couple, neither of whom have a uterus.)
- Two (or more) couples that are close-friends, who decide that they wish to sexually engage for the purpose of sharing children and coparenting. Either romantic or queerplatonic/alterous feelings develop between them, or they form a long-term senseship or casual relationship/FWB. Regardless, their relationship is no longer simply a friendship.
For the flags, orange represents familial warmth and excitement to be parents. Magenta represents love and passion. Green represents natural reproduction.
The first flag uses a typical human-appearing baby.
The second flag uses a more ambiguous-fetus, as to appeal to sysmates within systems that are having nonhuman babies.
The third flag uses egg symbols, for sysmates that lay eggs.
The fourth flag uses a symbol of mist, for sysmates that do not experience pregnancy or eggs, but something else entirely.
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Rotationship: a term used to describe a polyamorous relationship where four (or more) people regularly swap out partners, on scheduled or semi-scheduled basis. This swap could be an even or odd number. If the partners are close-enough, they can still see each other on dates/meetups, it is simply their housing that is swapped.
Here are a few examples of how this may apply:
- A person in a V relationship, where they rotate between the two houses of each of their partners.
- Two married couples that meet and fall in love with each other, forming a quad. They decide to continue living apart, but swap spouses every week.
- A pentad (five partners) that live in different provinces. One house is in Qinghai with three partners, the other house is in Taiwan and has two partners. Every six months, two partners in Qinghai swap with the one partner in Taiwan.
The flag uses the typical polyamory colors of red, black, blue, white, and yellow. The red and blue stripes represent the respective homes of the swappers, while the white arrows represent the partners that are swapping. The yellow heart signifies love of any kind, whether it is romantic, sexual, queerplatonic, or alterous.
