Author Chronicles Her Open Relationship to Inspire Women to Explore the Possibilities
Ladies, what if you could embark on a relationship with a partner and you both agree you’re free to have sex and relationships with other people, both by yourself and together as a couple? It’s called having an open relationship, or being polyamorous.
If you’ve ever thought about this, or even if you haven’t, then this episode of The Goddess Power Show with Elizabeth Ann Atkins is for you.
Rachel Krantz, an award-winning journalist and founder/namer of Bustle, shares the titillating details of her relationship that starts in New York City with Adam, as they participate in sex parties, have threesomes, and cavort with swingers at a tropical resort.
You can read all about it in her debut memoir: Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-Monogamy--A Polyamory Memoir, released in January 2022 by
Harmony Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, part of publisher Penguin Random House.
And while Rachel shares some sizzlin’ hot scenes—including her first experiences as a bisexual woman and having relationships with women—she also gets very real about the downsides of open relationships and polyamory: jealousy that was so terrible, it made her physically ill.
Listen to this episode and glean insight from Rachel’s experience that Shondaland calls: “Heavily researched and incredibly vulnerable.”
Likewise, NPR says: “Open is . . . neither a manifesto of polyamorous ideals nor an argument against it. Instead, it’s Krantz’s sincere and curious reckoning with the cultural messaging we all receive about gendered expectations and power dynamics in romantic and sexual relationships in general . . . The highs and lows of a first non-monogamous relationship prove the perfect canvas on which to explore these fundamental questions . . . [Krantz’s] vulnerability . . . is precisely why the memoir works so well.”
Rachel’s work has been featured on NPR, Vox, The Guardian, Vice, and she has received the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the Investigative Reporters and Editors Radio Award, the Peabody Award, and the Edward R. Murrow Award for her work as an investigative reporter with YR Media.
You’ll love how she weaves her excellent journalistic skills into her immersive journalism experience in her book, because she bolsters the detailed storytelling with awesome footnotes that share statistics and historical perspectives that provide context to the taboos and dangers around polyamory and open relationships.
You will leave listening to this show with a new perspective and solid insights into polyamory and open relationships. And it will help you decide, Is an open relationship for you?
If your answer is yes, Rachel provides tips on how to get started.
The bottom line is, Rachel helps shatter the stigmas and fear around women’s sexuality, to help us all embrace and celebrate the power of pleasure, by breaking free of society’s oppressive rules that have robbed women of sexual freedom and enjoyment for centuries.
Listen, learn, and hopefully live and love in new ways that make you glow from the inside out, and gain confidence to truly go for your dreams!