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The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities | 
 enlarge | Authors: Dossie Easton, Catherine A. Liszt
Publisher: Greenery Press (CA)
Category: Book
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Rating:  90 reviews
Media: Paperback
Pages: 280
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.8
ISBN: 1890159018
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.73
EAN: 9781890159016
ASIN: 1890159018
Publication Date: December 1997
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| Customer Reviews: Read 85 more reviews...
Good starting point November 24, 2008
Julie Lou (Austin)
A great general guide to poly beginners. It covers all kinds of relationships choices, and has a great section on handling jealousy and conflict.
 Awsome book! A must read for anyone living outside the box. August 16, 2008
Isabella ;D (Seattle, WA)
I love love love love love love love this book. It arrived in excellnt condition as well.
 Be careful taking this book to heart August 16, 2008
M. Fahrer (NY USA)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
You have to wonder why so many negative reviews people find helpful about this book. Being a bit in the lifestyle my wife and I were encouraged to read this book.. I have to agree with a lot of the negative reviews.
The author comes across as a narcissistic teenager looking for rationalizations on why it is good to put sexual gratification above other peoples feelings. This is not for someone in a loving relationship looking to experiment with alternate life styles. According to the author if it gets in the way of your orgasm then you walk right over it. Relationships and communication on how to work things out in a realtionship be damned.
I think maybe if you were single and wanted a way to justify why its ok to play the field, then this book is for you. If you are really curious about the lifestyle, and are in a relationship then I recommend looking elsewhere.
Interesting Read July 14, 2008
Avid Reader (USA)
I purchased this on recommendation of a friend. I found it very informative but a lot of points that were made in the book are common sense. I guess if you are thinking about this lifestyle, it is a good guide to help you put your thoughts and feeling in order.
 Quick Read; Interesting Philosophy, Obvious Advice. June 25, 2008
Thomas E. Hayden (Detroit, MI United States)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I read this book, not really sure what I was going to get out of it. I'm not in a "poly" relationship (or even really interested in one) but I wanted to get insight into how other relationships function and how other couples interact. Particularly, how sexuality and love play a role in couples who have an open-relationship. Since it seems relevant to the other reviewers - I'll disclose that I'm a straight male in my mid-twenties in a relationship.
A lot of the other reviews of this book seem to focus in on the authors narcissistic view of their relationship and the lesbian-centric aspect of the book. While I found both of those characteristics to be true, they're easy to read past and get to the real dirt of the book: that the modern concept of love, relationships and morality stems from a Beninger model of control - Western society depended on coupling and monogamy to control spread of disease, foster better child rearing, and so on. Ethics and morality that demanded monogamy were the lever used to control behavior and create societal constraints. Dossie and Easton throw this out and argue that society no longer needs this control and we can adjust our relationships (and ideas about ethics - i.e. slut) accordingly.
Their practical advice, I hope, should be pretty obvious: be honest, be open, recognize and avoid jealousy, be rational, maintain constraints and give respect when due. None of their advice is really unique to polyamorous relationships and seems pretty universal among any type of relationship. I was unable to really ascertain any information about what makes polyamorous relationships any different from normal ones other than that you have to work extra hard.
This book should be a quick read - if you cut out the personal anecdotes and parts where they pat themselves on the back (there are lots of those), you can crank through the book in probably about 30-45 minutes.
The only thing I felt I was really able to extract from this book was Dossie and Easton's unique philosophical view about the historical context of monogamy and a more post-modern view of sexuality. After about chapter three, I didn't get much out of the book - it all seems quite obvious and is written with a moderately offensive tone of superiority.
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