I am so angry that I don't know where to begin. I mean, it's not as if I wasn't angry before this. But suddenly, I feel as if I could spit fire. I don't know what the breaking point was...no...wait...I do. I know exactly what it was. It was an...

Well, times they certainly are a changin'. Just a few short weeks ago, Poly Pride Day was held in Central Park in New York City. And, believe it or not, even The New York Times gave it a nod. I was lucky enough to be asked to speak and enough...

I can't help but be intrigued by the striking resemblance between Miss South Carolina 2007, Lauren Caitlin Upton's response to the question, "Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can't locate the U.S. on a world map. Why do you think this is?" and Sarah Palin's response when Katie...

From Chapter Nine of the book Open by Jenny Block. Excerpted by arrangement with Seal Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group. Copyright 2008.

As time went on, she realized that several key elements make a successful open marriage, and though those factors involved the community of people she...

Just to set the record straight: I don't have a problem with monogamy. I don't think people in open relationships are more "evolved" than those in closed ones. I don't think open relationships are always honest and closed ones are always deceitful.

I believe in choice and acceptance.

I say...

People can be so cruel, especially on the web. Sometimes I think it's the primary thing for which people use the Internet -- to exercise their dark side.

The Internet has made it possible for anyone to write, for anyone to share an opinion. And that's fabulous. The thing is,...

I'm mad about it. Not the fact that they're in one. Heck, I don't even know if it's true. They certainly didn't tell me personally about it. And it has long been rumored but never even close to being confirmed.

Until now.

At least so say the press reprinting the...

People in open relationships often talk about rules -- what they should be, whether or not to have any, what to do if they're broken. That can be especially true for people just starting out or thinking about embarking on an open relationship. One of the most often contended topics...

I realize a lot of people are homophobic. I think it's ridiculous, of course. But I'm not naïve enough to think it doesn't exist, despite my relative luckiness to not encounter it personally on a regular basis. I understand that it is about ignorance and lack of exposure to people...

Some people's inboxes are filled with spam. Mine is filled with questions. It's been that way ever since I began talking publicly about my open marriage. Unfortunately, the one I get the most frequently is one of the most difficult to answer.

Here's how the email usually goes:

Dear Jenny,

I get a lot of questions about my open marriage. I also get a lot of questions about why I talk publicly about it online and in my new book, "Open: Love, Sex, and Life in an Open Marriage." The answer is two-fold. First is because I'm a writer and...

More than two years ago, I wrote "Portrait of an Open Marriage" for Tango magazine. It was reprinted here and in Cosmopolitan (Germany). It got a number of comments on Huffington Post and continues to get comments to this day at tangomag.com.

But a lot of...

As I sat in Starbucks yesterday afternoon, I figured it out. I figured out how to make the world the kind of "better place" that everyone's always talking about.

I was listening to a man in his forties talking to a young man in his early twenties. Scratch that....

"There's glory for you!"

"I don't know what you mean by 'glory,' " Alice said.

Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. "Of course you don't--till I tell you. I meant 'there's a nice knock-down argument for you!' "

"But 'glory' doesn't mean 'a nice knock-down argument,' " Alice objected.

"When I use...

I forget sometimes how lucky I am. How lucky I am to have been able to come into my sexuality the way I have, without abuse, without religious fervor, without judgment. But as I am having that thought, as I am writing it down, I feel sick to my stomach....

Last night I heard the fearless Jessica Valenti, the author of Full Frontal Feminism and the founder of feministing.com, speak at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. I was both elated and devastated. The thing is, Valenti is eight years my junior and is still battling the same sexism...

Sex and love make people crazy. Not by experiencing them. By talking about them. And right now, a lot of people are talking about open marriage and polyamory. Some people simply have questions, excellent questions, in fact, and ones I promise to address in future posts. Even the hard ones...

I WAS 17 WHEN my sexual education began.

"You are responsible for your own orgasm," my boyfriend told me. He was the guy I lost my virginity to, the guy I had my first orgasm with, and the guy whose words would one day become my mantra: I am responsible...