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The misery memoir of a devoted polyamorist

22 January 2022

9:00 AM

22 January 2022

9:00 AM

Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation and Non-Monogamy Rachel Krantz

Monoray, pp.320, 14.99

The rules of sex can kill. In 1844 an angry mob shot Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, for his polygamous ways. But in the counterculture today, polyamorists face less of a physical threat and more of a metaphysical one, as chronicled by the journalist Rachel Krantz in her tortured book Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation and Non-Monogamy.

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