It’s Not So Complicated If You Map It Out

Nov 12, 2010 • Culture, web

Labels. We may claim to hate them, but face it, most of the time, they really help simplify things. And when it comes to relationships, the simpler the better. Of course, few relationships are so cut and dry. Most have little features — or as Facebook, that terrible heteronormative tool of the patriarchy, calls them, “complications” — that make them so much more difficult to define.

Well, fear not. We have the solution. From the fertile mind of Franklin Veaux, creator of the Map of the Lands of Human Sexuality, comes a new visual way to behold the many shades of non-monogamous relationships:

Franklin Veaux Monogamy Bar
(Click to enlarge.)

Screw “it’s complicated.” Tell us where you’re really at!