What’s the New Current Thing? Polyamory. By Steve Sailer.

Back in May 2013, I discerned that The New York Times was promoting as the successor to gay marriage—as that triumphant campaign entered its shooting-the-wounded phase—transgenderism. This seemed bizarre at the time, but transgenderism indeed proved to be the New Current Thing, with catastrophic consequences for impressionable and moody young girls.

What’s next? Many on the right argued that it had to be pedophilia, mostly because that grossed them out the most. But all the trends point in the opposite direction: For example, the woke are increasingly disgusted by the thought of a 35-year-old man marrying a 25-year-old woman (presumably, a trend driven by all the single 35-year-old women fearing being permanently left on the shelf by single 35-year-old men)….

Under the guise of the nonsexist, nontraditional neologism “polyamory,” groundwork has been laid since about 2015 for polyamorism to be the New Current Thing, with possibly a breakthrough going on in 2024. …

 

 

So, we appear to be approaching liftoff for polyamory as a Thing.

The great appeal of polyamory is you can define it to mean whatever you are into.

• Are you a man who wants a harem? Go for it. That’s polyamory.
• Are you a woman who enjoys domestic drama, who’d like two suitors fighting for your favors, like in those Mormon vampire Twilight movies? That’s polyamory too! …
• Are you pathetic and unappealing, and the best you figure you can do is to share a member of the opposite sex? The word “polyamorist” sure sounds better than “loser.”
• Are you bisexual, nonbinary, questioning, sluttish, or just plain confused? Well, you can now describe yourself as having a polyamory identity, too.

(Note that, increasingly, exponents of polyamorism describe it not as their preference but as their identity, just as men who like to dress up in women’s clothes used to have a transvestite fetish, which made them figures of fun, but now have a transgender identity, which makes them sacred and entitled to abuse anybody lower on the pyramid of identity-politics privilege.)

And Muslims?

A couple of years ago, I predicted: “My guess is that some form of polygamy will instead be next, with computer nerds who lack the gene for sexual jealousy demanding “polyamory” and NGOs servicing African refugees insisting that Mr. Nguma and all four Ms. Ngumas and their nineteen children be let in because “love is love,” and if you don’t approve of polygamy you’re racist.”

But, so far, the polyamorists — who tend to be extremely white, Scott Alexander-level white — have signally failed to make an alliance with their seeming natural allies, the masses of the Sahel.

Pedophilia too hard for now? Allies disapprove? Don’t really feel like it? Shucks.