Is monogamy dead? | Rosie Wilby | TEDxHackneyWomen

Comedian, writer and broadcaster Rosie Wilby presents some of the surprising results of a survey she conducted as research for her 2013 Edinburgh show. She reveals how diverse our definitions of infidelity are and introduces ideas around emotional monogamy, suggesting that we're all a bit more polyamorous than we admit. She calls for more language, such as the term 'love affair friendship', to describe the huge variety of connections that we experience and looks at the insights we gain about male and female behaviours by observing lesbians and gay men.

Award winning comedian Rosie Wilby took her show Is Monogamy Dead? to Assembly Hall at Edinburgh Fringe 2013 and has since performed it at London Science Museum Lates, Secret Garden Party Festival, How The Light Gets In and more. Based on an anonymous online survey of 100 respondents, it unveiled how diverse our definitions of infidelity are. She recorded a Radio 4 Four Thought piece A New Currency Of Commitment and has spoken in the media about emotional monogamy and love affair friendships. Her New Statesman article proposing that we might all really be polyamorous received 2.6k likes in the UK, 24k shares in the US and was translated into Italian for Poliamore Italia. She also presents Resonance FM's weekly LGBT magazine Out in South London.

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