Beyond Monogamy

In this volume, recent changes in these roles and boundaries are subjected to serious examination by social and clinical psychologists, anthropologists, family sociologists, biologists, and social theorists —among them such well-known writers as Nena and George O'Neill, Alex Comfort, Jessie Bernard, and Albert Ellis.

Beyond Monogamy is a collection of sixteen articles and research reports whose contributors seek understanding of relatively new patterns and styles of marriage, including: co-marital sex, group marriage, "swinging," and related sexual practice. By bringing a variety of alternative marriage arrangements and experiments into clearer focus, they examine behavior that may constitute a further step in the evolution of interpersonal relationships. The contributors reinterpret this behavior in the light of current education and socialization practices, family processes, social dynamics, and marital ideologies. Beyond Monogamy is the first comprehensive collection of scientific material devoted exclusively to the transformation and evolution of the sexual boundaries of contemporary marriage.

James R. Smith and Lynn G. Smith, editors. Beyond Monogamy: Recent Studies of Sexual Alternatives in Marriage. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1/4/1974. Hardcover. xi+336 pp.