The subjective production of family in the polyamorous experience of a throuple relationship

Abstract

The specific phenomenon of this writing was the subjective production of family in the experience of a concomitant and consensual affective-sexual relationship between the three people participating of this study. A polyamorous arrangement of the closed group that been named of “throuple” in Brazil. At the time of the fieldwork, the throuple had completed four years in this polyamorous relationship configuration. Qualitative Epistemology and the constructive-interpretive method reference the analysis procedure adopted. From the investigation carried out it was considered that the way in which the throuple subjectively configures their family and their relational arrangement makes it possible to place polyamory in a position of ambiguity with monogamy, with emphasis on the value of polyfidelity, which is present in the relational dynamics of the throuple, and for the ideals of equality and honesty that come into focus on the subjective configuration of family and the polyamorous relationship between the people participating in this research.