My first wife and I explored non-monogamy. Back in 2006 people thought it was bizarre.
Briefly

"We both grew up in a culture that stigmatized sexuality. One of the things that brought us together was our shared trauma from being raised in a culture that didn't just condemn sexuality but essentially denied that sexual pleasure existed."
"I was supposed to promise that I would go to my grave without ever knowing what sex was like with anyone else but her. And that made me uncomfortable. Not miserable, nothing that wasn't dwarfed by how happy I was to be with her, just a little uncomfortable."
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