Polyamorous representation and spitting on your friends in Spitkiss

Not a lot of people understand what polyamory actually means. Some consider it cheating, others conflate it with polygamy, and think polyamorous people are just new-wave hipster Mormons. I m polyamorous, and while I m both new-wave and a hipster, I m not a Mormon, because from experience that isn t what polyamory is.

Without taking a good while explaining the nuances of polyamory (the different relationship orientations, the emotional difference between it and swinging, what the hell metamour means) I d have a hard time referencing any piece of mainstream media, much less a video game, that tells a polyamorous love story in a way both relatable way for poly people and an understandable way for people who are monogamous. In fact, I d have a hard time showing you a film, book, TV show, or game that has polyamorous people in it at all. And then there s Spitkiss.

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