Tinder and Match.com, also owned by OkCupid parent company Match Group, do not yet have plans to add a similar feature
for nonmonogamous users.
Not exact matches
That said, I spent months researching consensual
nonmonogamous relationships
for The New I Do and spoke to numerous people who opened up their marriage or who chose it from the get - go because they'd never even consider getting married without monogamy being discussed and mutually agreed to, and even I know that being in a consensually
nonmonogamous relationship hardly has «loose confines» — most people who mutually agree to choose it have explicit agreements on what's OK and what's not OK; even if they don't, successfully navigating it requires a lot of communication and transparency.
The decision to add the option
for polyamorous users comes after OkCupid noticed an uptick in interest in
nonmonogamous relationships.
On the popular dating site OkCupid, couples seeking other partners can link their profiles; users can filter their searches
for people who label themselves «
nonmonogamous.»
Christopher Ryan and Cecildá Jetha, authors of Sex at Dawn, hypothesize that primitive humans were by nature
nonmonogamous, and that monogamy was instituted around the time of the agricultural revolution as a way
for men to establish patrilineality and hand down material wealth to their offspring.