Eli Sheff

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Modern Love · Is Polyamory Right for You? · 29 Jul 2026 podcast

But by then, I was in graduate school, and I was learning all of these research methods, and one of the research methods classes I had said,

do an interview with someone, practice interviewing skills.

So I interviewed a polyamorous person and the class was like, oh my God, this is amazing.

This is your dissertation right here.

And I was like, really?

Oh, but nobody's done research on it yet, you know?

And at the time, I wasn't aware there were two other researchers looking into this.

And that was it worldwide.

And none of us knew about each other at first.

We all thought we were the only person doing this.

And we, I mean, the community had been around, but the word hadn't been around for as long.

And now in 1996, what year is it?

2026.

Now in 2026.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

polyamory and other forms of consensual non-monogamy are fairly well known.

People know they exist.

But in 1996, it wasn't as much of a concept.

It wasn't as widely known.

I started out talking to the adults.

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