'We must once and for all stop destroying fantasy, take the final step, release the last mooring, escape the conditionings of desire centres, move beyond the margins to dwell elsewhere, meet our peers, look them in the face, name them. And seriously start building something different.'

Monogamy plays a central role in Western history, a tenet around which concepts of love, relationships, and family have developed. In Monogamous Mind Polyamorous Terror, Spanish scholar Brigitte Vasallo reflects on how many mechanisms we associate with love are actually imposed forms, not freely determined yet nonetheless deeply rooted in society and individuals. In a powerful essay, she reveals how our concepts of the state, nation, and identity - all based on exclusivity, possession, and hierarchies - have also been shaped around monogamy. Her critique does not spare polyamory - which it sees as failing to avoid reproducing monogamous thought patterns.
Drawing on extensive research on polyamorous relationships, Vasallo breaks through one of the most solid pillars of Western history to show the possibilities of a different approach for a different world and a radical revolution in relationships, whether erotic, familial, or communal.