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Their approach to polyamory is organized and systematic. Nothing is ever as good as it seems from the outside, you know?”īut unlike their friends, Ben and Frances do not have a reductive view of marriage. “Honestly,” Frances’ friend tells her, “I thought y’all had like. Certainly for Ben and Frances’ friends, a foray into extramarital sex-even one shared and consented to by all parties-is the equivalent of a cry for help. Many people, and many readers, might go into a story about group sex with certain expectations. All of this is important background because in the foreground, Ben and Frances are actively looking to make their twosome a threesome or a foursome. They still enjoy each other’s company, they still laugh and banter and have inside jokes. Their relationship is not one that can be reduced to “companionship,” that death knell of passion. They are-and Faison is absolutely clear on this point-in love. They make tacos and margaritas together on Friday nights. They’ve been together since college, they drink coffee in bed wearing matching sweatpants. The story opens five years into Ben and Frances’ happy marriage. The story asks important questions about marriage and monogamy, and somehow, it makes the asking fun. Rather, it’s about many-loyalty and betrayal, desire and grief, obsession and love. Like all the best fiction, however, it would be inaccurate to describe it as about any one thing.

Yes, Elisa Faison’s “Group Sex” is about sex. You Can’t Plan Feelings Out of a Foursome

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