More Than Two

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More Than Two
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AuthorFranklin Veaux,
Eve Rickert
Cover artistPaul Mendoza, Thorntree Press
CountryUSA
LanguageEnglish
SubjectPolyamory, open relationships, human sexuality
PublisherThorntree Press
Publication date
September 2, 2014
Media typePrint (hardback, paperback, & audiobook)
Pages496
ISBN978-0-9913997-0-3

More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory is a non-fiction book about consensual non-monogamous relationships, written by Franklin Veaux and Eve Rickert. The foreword is written by Janet Hardy, co-author of The Ethical Slut.[1] The book shares the same name as, but no content with, Veaux's website MoreThanTwo.com, which he launched in 1997 as a resource about polyamory.[2]

Reception[]

More Than Two received positive reviews within polyamorous communities upon publication.[3][4][5] The book was a finalist in the Family & Relationships category for the 2014 Indiefab Awards (later rebranded as the Foreword INDIES).[6][7]

Criticism[]

In 2019, a group of Veaux's former partners and others, including More Than Two co-author Rickert and three of the women whom Veaux had told personal stories about in More Than Two and in Veaux's memoir, The Game Changer, went public describing abusive and coercive behaviors from Veaux over the course of their relationships with him.[8] The accusations led to a critical analysis of both books by author Kali Tal,[9] who has published extensively regarding psychological trauma and abuse.[10]

Rickert then published further criticisms of More Than Two on her own blog, detailing how after collaborating with journalist Louisa Leontiades to collate the previously referenced personal stories of hers and others experiences that were used in the book,[11][12] and her then subsequent correspondence between herself, Tal and the other people whose stories had been collated in the lead up to Tal's critical analyses, she had come to understand through both the collated personal stories and through Tal's subsequent analyses, how prominent ideas within More Than Two had developed directly out of the referenced harmful, traumatising aspects of her and others relationships with Veaux, describing with those criticisms as reference how the book itself may "for some, become a tool of abuse".[13] She then further criticized passages More Than Two after reviewing the text herself since having Leontiades and Tal's works available,[14] whilst noting they along with an exposé into the cult NXIVM[15] and a detailed description by an essayist on what impact the prominent ideas in the book had on their own experiences, were descriptive of how parts of the book are "harmful" and may cause harm to others.[16]

References[]

  1. ^ "More Than Two". Thorntree Press.
  2. ^ "About – More Than Two". More Than Two.
  3. ^ "*More Than Two* reviews, and getting it into libraries". Polyamory in the News. Retrieved April 30, 2020.
  4. ^ "More Than Two, latest news & reviews". Polyamory in the News. Retrieved April 30, 2020.
  5. ^ "More Than Two in the media: new roundup". Polyamory in the News. Retrieved April 30, 2020.
  6. ^ "2014 Foreword INDIES Finalists in Family & Relationships (Adult Nonfiction)". Foreword Reviews. Retrieved October 30, 2018.
  7. ^ "Foreword Book of the Year Submission Open". Foreword Reviews. Retrieved October 30, 2018.
  8. ^ "Abuse Happens in Polyamory, Too". The BF Mag. August 20, 2019. Retrieved April 30, 2020.
  9. ^ ""My Life Belongs to Me": Reading the Polyamory Narratives of Franklin Veaux Against the Relationship Testimony of Two of His Ex-Nesting Partners". Kali Tal. Retrieved April 30, 2020.
  10. ^ "Kali Tal - Publications". Retrieved November 21, 2021.
  11. ^ ""polyamory's #metoo". Louisa Leontiades. Retrieved November 21, 2021.
  12. ^ "Louisa Leontiades' website". Louisa Leontiades. Retrieved November 21, 2021.
  13. ^ "Thoughts on the Fifth Anniversary of More Than Two". Eve Rickert. September 2, 2019. Retrieved April 30, 2020.
  14. ^ "What I Got Wrong in More Than Two: The Dark Night of the Soul". Eve Rickert. November 30, 2019. Retrieved April 30, 2020.
  15. ^ "nxivm fright study - CBC". CBC. Retrieved November 21, 2021.
  16. ^ "I was in a polyamorous and abusive relationship for 7 years and here's what I learned". Inês Rôlo. January 15, 2020. Retrieved November 21, 2021.


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