Should six-way marriages be legal?

Should six-way marriages be legal?

Love doesn't just come in pairs. Is it time that marriage laws come to recognise the fact?

As a child Franklin Veaux recalls hearing his school teacher read a story about a princess who had a tantalising dilemma.

Two male suitors had been wooing her and she had to choose between them. Franklin wondered why she could not choose both.

This early insight was revealing. Franklin has to this day never stuck to one relationship at a time.

"I have never been in a monogamous relationship in my life. When I was in high school I took two dates to my senior prom. I lost my virginity as a threesome."

Today he lives with his long-term girlfriend in a home he shares with her other boyfriend.

Occasionally his partner's teenage daughter also stays over. He is also in four other long-distance relationships, people he sees with varying degrees of frequency.

Franklin and his girlfriends are what's called polyamorous or "poly" as the community tends to call it.

Being poly simply means you can be in more than one relationship, with the full support and trust of however many partners they choose to have.

Polyamory does not feature in any census tick box but anecdotal evidence suggests that it is on the rise.

Some are even calling for it to be recognised by law following the legalisation of gay marriage in the UK and the US.

All this raises of the question of whether the future of love may be very different from our current conceptions of romance.

But love has always been the same, right?

A man falls for a woman, they get married, pop out a few children and stay together in a harmonious and monogamous relationship for life.

Sorry romantics. This wasn't, and still isn't, always the picture of love.

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