A screenshot demonstrates a negative relationships Thomas have with a fit on Tinder as he discussed becoming poly
aˆ?i have got it inside my bio [that I’m poly]… I believe there is commonly some a perception when you article photographs as a couple [on a dating profile], that you are matchmaking as a few. I wanted in order to avoid that because we do not go out as a few; we date as individuals.aˆ? -Thomas
When People Were Poly-Negative
aˆ?I do bring, particularly boys, whom approach us to hack on their wives simply because they need a presumption about my intimate accessibility. They assume that because I’m polyamorous that I would be thinking about cheat. The presumption is hard and anything.aˆ? -Heath
aˆ?Usually its things like, aˆ?Isn’t their man concerned with the ailments you have been catching on these dating sites?’ Often it’s slut-shaming: phoning 
myself a aˆ?slut,’ or a aˆ?whore’-especially in the event that first thing out-of my digital throat usually i am poly.aˆ? -Stephanie