Internalized Consensual Non-Monogamy Negativity and Relationship Quality Among People Engaged in Polyamory, Swinging, and Open Relationships
Internalized CNM negativity tended to occur with lower relationship-agreement satisfaction, global satisfaction, and commitment.
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This source is valuable because it changes who gets treated as an authority on intimacy. Lived experience can reveal assumptions and harms that a measurement alone may miss, while still remaining one situated account. The key boundary is that it cannot establish diagnosis, individual prediction, universal claims, or advice beyond its stated scope..
Why it matters: This source demonstrates that identity and intimacy cannot be understood through one cultural default. It adds language readers can use to notice whose experience is missing and whose boundaries are being assumed.
Purpose and scope
Phase 3 gap-filling candidate; complete full-text verification during editorial migration.
339 people engaged in CNM relationships.
Findings or central themes
Internalized CNM negativity was associated with lower relationship-agreement satisfaction, global satisfaction, and commitment.
Strengths
Open or publicly indexed source with direct relevance to an identified library gap.
Limitations
Cross-sectional, self-report community sample; association does not establish causation.
Do not use this source to claim: Do not use this source for diagnosis, individual prediction, universal claims, or advice beyond its stated scope.
Citation and access
Amy C. Moors et al. (2021). Internalized Consensual Non-Monogamy Negativity and Relationship Quality Among People Engaged in Polyamory, Swinging, and Open Relationships. Archives of Sexual Behavior
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