The essential guide for singles and couples who want to explore polyamory in ways that are ethically and emotionally sustainable. For 20 years The Ethical Slut has dispelled myths and showed curious readers how to maintain a successful polyamorous lifestyle through open communication, emotional honesty, and safer sex practices. Experienced ethical sluts Dossie Easton and Janet W. Hardy dispel myths and teach you how to discuss and honor boundaries, resolve conflicts, and to define relationships on your own terms.

The third edition of this timeless guide to communication and sex has been revised to include interviews with poly millennials, tributes to poly pioneers, and new sidebars on topics such as asexuality, sex workers, and ways poly folks can connect and thrive. The authors also include new content addressing nontraditional relationships beyond the polyamorous paradigm of "more than two": couples who don't live together, couples who don't have sex with each other, nonparallel arrangements, couples with widely divergent sex styles, power disparities, and cross-orientation relationships, while utilizing gender neutral language and new terms that have come into common usage since the last edition.