I personally hate it.
Real life story:
So, as a gay, people often associate me with being a slut. Ok, point being I kind of am WHILE I'M SINGLE.
When I have a guy I really like, I like to be monogamous, give my all to him.
Now there's this guy I sleep with a lot, and I quite like him too, and I met him while he had a boyfriend. We slept together, and he told me he was a polygamist. I didn't understand, but when he tried to say was, that he is actually an "ethical slut". (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ethical_Slut)
I asked him if he could ever be monogamous, but he can't.
As long as I'm single, I will continue seeing him. When I meet someone special, he will be out of the picture.
Thing is, I quite like him actually, and he likes me too. He said he was jealous seeing me kiss someone else while clubbing(I was drunk, and he said he wouldn't mind) and the day after he told me he has butterflies for me.
But, I want my boyfriend to be monogamous like me. Only me. As long as we're not called a "relationship" I don't mind him Farking others(though I get a bit jealous at times) and he doesn't mind me doing the same. If I have to call him my boyfriend, let him meet my parents and stuff he'd better stop sleeping with others.
Now he has a friend who is monogamous himself, and he has a boyfriend too. But his boyfriend isn't monogamous and is sleeping with others.
I couldn't live with that. It would tear me apart to KNOW that my boyfriend is cheating on me, sleeping with an other.
So because of my envious personality, I can not be a polygamist, kind of hate them tbh.