How a Bad MMF Leads to Polyamory Weakly

From Polyamory Weekly: “After losing his wife to his best friend and acknowledging he is comfortable with swinging, Tony asks if he should be poly.”

At first I just laughed out loud – he couldn’t even handle a relationship with one woman, how is he capable of handling a relationship with more than one woman? No don’t do that, you just can’t handle it.

I never got around to posting on it, but it stuck in my head. Now that I’m looking at it again, it looks a little different.

He’s very likely done some sort of swinging with his wife or MMF (threesome with 2 male and 1 female) with his best friend involved and that all went boom in his face. It’s usually a big hit to your Alpha to allow your wife to have sex with another man, and a big Alpha boost to the guy that gets to play the walk on stud role. If all three of them: the husband, the wife and the best friend were objectively 7s, the dynamic of doing an MMF means the husband turns into a 5 or 6, the wife stays a 7 and the best friend turns into an 8 or 9. So the natural risk to that dynamic is that the wife is going to jump ship from one man to the another.

It’s a horribly risky thing for the husband in that if everything goes well, he has a couple of great sexual sessions, but if it goes bad he gets stripped of his wife and possibly gets hammered on the  house / child support / alimony / assets front as well. The wife risks nothing and gets great sexual sessions and maybe a new man. The best friend risks nothing, gets great sexual sessions and can win the wife and whatever assets come with her. This is why wives that are risked in this ridiculous bargain view their husbands with less respect for the sheer idiocy of it all. With less respect comes less attraction and thus the Sex Rank hit. The best friend gains Sex Rank in her eyes because he’s obviously smart enough to see a good thing and women are turned on by the ruthlessness of a predatory male.

For the wife, it’s very predictable that she would seriously consider switching men. This switching is not an accidental side effect, it is the intended effect. She’s trying the best friend out for size as a test drive. If she likes him better, she’s making her move.

When the best friend agreed to have sex with his wife, he probably did it with the intentional purpose of stealing her. Pretty much all he has to do is when he’s on top of her, pump extra hard and quietly whisper into her ear that he would never share her like this and she deserves better.

So anyway… back to the story…

The dude loses his wife to his best friend, but he’s still turned on by the memories of her being banged right in front of him, so multiple-partner sex and relationships still excite him. So obviously he’s still interested in swinging, but there’s just one little problem  – he doesn’t have a wife anymore, so he can’t even buy his way into swinging.

So, um… can’t be cuckolded anymore, can’t swing… so all that’s left as an option is polyamory.

Then I realize what he’s really thinking. He’s not even expecting more than one woman, he’s trying to get back up to half a woman. Maybe just a third of a woman. He’s sex and relationship bankrupt. So sure, why not order from the dollar menu.