mono or poly?

University lecturers and teachers are left-wing, opinionated, political and use a lot of big fancy words - that's how the stereoptype goes.
And if you choose to judge the whole lot of them based solely on my current Comm tutor, then the gap between stereotype and reality is very narrow.

He's so left-wing he's practically flying around in circles, more opinionated than Germaine Greer, more political than the entirety of the 2010 election (which isn't really saying much) and when it comes to using big, fancy words - he spews them out as liberally as a kid who's just eaten too much Alphabetti-Spaghetti.

That said, I like the guy. He's a lot more inetresting to listen to than your crusty, dried-up old Geography teacher from year 9. The stuff that spouts forth from his mouth is both cringe-worthy and fascinating. From his belief that skyscrapers represent gigantic symbolic penises to his Orwellian views on how humans are under constant surveillance, from both outside and within ourselves, his little sppeches are not your usual tutorial fodder.

But there's a particular view of his that grabs me by the balls the most - his belief in "polyamory". Basically, he follows the idea that people shouldn't have to be tied down, emotionally or sexually, to just one partner. He has a "primary partner", but then several other lovers orbiting about, and so does his "primary partner". It's a big ol' web of love and everyone involved is cool with it.

It's a fascinating idea (and let's face it, preferable to the insanity of marriage), but would it work in the long-run? It could be a bit of fun, but at what point does our natural possessiveness and jealously kick in and rain on the parade? But, as my polyamorous teacher preaches, this possessive nature is the very opposite of "nature" - it's been bred unnaturally into us from birth.

According to him, our "love" isn't a thing to be saved just for one person at a time. It's a morphous, ever-growing thing capable of increasing in size according to how many people we choose to share it with. It's radical, but I kinda like this idea. Perhaps instead of guarding our "love" as if it were a precious chihuaha, we should just keep feeding it and feeding it like an unstoppable, monstrous mutant blob creature.

What a lovely notion.