Three in Love

 

ISBN-13: 978-0-06-251295-1
Writers: Barbara Foster, Michael Foster and Letha Hadady

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Title: Three in Love
Subtitle: Ménages a trois from ancient to modern times
Language: English
First Edition
Place of Publication: San Francisco, CA
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
Year of Publication: 1997
Format: 158x242mm
Pages: xiv+450
Illustrations: 32 black-and white
Jacket design: Laura Beers
Cover photograph: mysterious circumstances ©1996 InAFlash
Back cover photographs: Yorghos Kontaxis
Binding: cloth in colour dust cover
Weight: 845 gr.
Original price USD 25.00 / CAD 35.50
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BOOK DESCRIPTION

From Adam, Eve, and the Serpent to financier Warren Buffett, Susie Buffett, and Astrid Menks, the menage a trois has long been part of he landscape of human love. Explored in literature and flirted with in films, this lovestyle is taboo for some and the private daydream of countless others. But the menage has also been the daily, loving reality of a remarkable number of people throughout history and in modern times as well.

Barbara Foster, Michael Foster, and Letha Hadady are writers and scholars who themselves are involved in an ongoing, loving partnership and are thus remarkably well suited as commentators on this unconventional lifestyle. In this book based on extensive research, they trace the menage a trois over the centuries—both in real life and as portrayed in art—and offer a deft and compelling portrait of three-fold love. In addition, hey reveal the truth about the world's best-known trios, from biblical patriarch Abraham, his wife Sarah, and he handmaiden Hagar to Henry and June Miller and Anaïs Nin and even Beat writer Jack Kerouac and Neal and Carolyn Cassady.

The authors differentiate clearly between a love triangle and a menage a trois: the "bloody" triangle generally springs out of an affair or adultery, and one of the three is excluded. In a menage on the other hand, all three participants have equal status and input, and, most important, the relationship is entered into by mutual decision and consent.

Fascinating reading for anyone interested in human sexuality, sexual ethics, or the future of fundamental relationships, Three in Love makes an intelligent and solid case for the menage a trois as an alternative to the standard two-person partnership ad answers he current cry for "family values" with a wide reworking of the traditional family unit.