Deborah Anapol is the author of Polyamory: The New Love without Limits and The Seven Natural Laws of Love. She has taught psychology and human sexuality at the University of Washington in Seattle and Antioch University in San Francisco. She leads seminars on love, sex, and intimacy around the country and the world.
Anapol masters the difficult task of covering a wide territory of
historical polyamory and diving into it to the depth it deserves,
so as we read this book we constantly increase our understanding. I
love her reviews of lovestyles in many cultures, and her in depth
recounting of the stories of various relationships, the
difficulties they encounter, and how they learn and grow and
eventually triumph and go on to love some more. What I love the
most is that the author always brings us back to the central point
of our relationships: love.--Dossie Easton, Licensed Marriage and
Family Therapist; co-author of The Ethical Slut
With her first book, Polyamory: The New Love Without Limits, Anapol
was midwife at the birth of a new form of loving relationship. Now
she has written the book that only she could write, describing how
this movement has evolved over the three decades since she helped
usher it into the world. Anapol describes her personal and
professional observations, as she has watched polyamory spread
around the world, growing and changing with each new culture and
generation that embraces it. Anapol's journey is a fascinating and
engrossing exploration through the ways in which lives,
relationships, cultures and societies have changed and been changed
by acceptance of a form of love which does not require
monogamy.--David J. Ley, Ph.D., author of The Myth of Sex Addiction
and Insatiable Wives: Women Who Stray and The Men Who Love Them
Deborah Anapol has long pioneered new archetypes of intimacy in our
stringently pair-bonded world. This book invites us to leap beyond
the notion that love and marriage go together like a horse and
carriage so that we can successfully update our personal longings
and relationship templates: past, present, and future.--Gina Ogden,
PhD, Author of "Women Who Love Sex, The Heart & Soul of Sex, and
The Return of Desire".
Deborah Anapol has picked up where Love Without Limits left off and
taken the discussion about polyamory to a whole new level.
Polyamory in the 21st Century reflects Anapol's extensive
experience with the subject, both as someone who has been a leader
in the movement and as a therapist who has helped thousands of
clients. Her honest, warm, spirited voice comes through in this
book and the stories of real people are both fascinating and
helpful to folks looking for concrete examples. Her chapter on
jealousy-one of the thorniest issues in polyamory-is intelligent,
insightful, and very practical, and one of the best things I've
ever read on the subject.--Tristan Taormino, author of Opening Up:
A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships
Deborah Anapol has produced a level-headed, insightful examination
of the growing polyamory movement and the people in it their
ideals, motivations, backgrounds, and practices, and the increasing
body of hard-won wisdom they are accumulating about what makes
multiple-relationship structures fail or succeed. Anapol draws on
her nearly 30 years at the heart of the movement, including her
experience counseling thousands of poly and would-be-poly clients
and her many discussions with the movement's movers and shakers.
She also examines how poly people and families deal with such
issues as jealousy, time management, child rearing, and how
closeted or out to be in a sometimes hostile world--Alan M.,
Polyamory in the News
Deborah Anapol stands as a pioneer within the polyamory movement.
She is uniquely qualified to explore the way the movement has
developed into the 21st Century. Polyamory in the 21st Century
explores how polyamory has evolved since the word first appeared
some two decades ago. It underlines in the most personal and direct
language that polyamory and non-monogamy is, more than ever before,
a viable and life affirming way to live for present and future
generations.--Graham Nicholls, artist, writer and founder of
polyamory.org.uk
Polyamory in the 21st Century is a thoughtful, wide-ranging and
well-balanced consideration of the current state of polyamory
worldwide. Illustrating her points with vivid examples from
real-life, Anapol succeeds in getting across the diversity of
relationships and experiences covered under the umbrella of
polyamory. Readers who are new to polyamory will find useful, open
practical advice. The book also provides intriguing introductions
to relevant research and theory in this area, which will hopefully
whet the appetite of readers to find out more.--Dr. Meg Barker,
co-editor of Understanding Non-Monogamies
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