Miriam Axel Lute’s personal essay about being a third of a
triple is certainly going to cause a collective sharp sucking in of breath.
I’ll admit to an instantaneous ‘Whaaaat?’ when I started reading And Baby Makes Four, Axel Lute’s story
of bringing a baby into a marriage of two women and one man. Waiting for an
explanation to make me more comfortable (oh, the lesbian couple had to marry a man in order to legally
inseminate in whatever backwoods state they live in) never did arrive when Axel
Lute explains very efficiently that all decisions were a matter of personal
choice.
Polyamorous relationships differ from polygamy in that the latter is most commonly associated with
the now defunct (and reviled) practice in the Mormon Church. That particular
‘belief’ has always made my blood boil mostly because it is a one way street
where men are the deciders and pedophilia was not always out of the question.
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