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The opposite of kitchen table polyamory. In parallel polyamory, everyone’s relationships run parallel to each other, and don’t interact or interconnect. In parallel polyamory, people may not even know or meet each other’s other partners.

Someone who has had or is currently having some kind of genital sex with a partner or partners.

STIs: illness, infection and/or disease which is often or can be transmitted through sexual or other intimate contact, like HIV, Chlamydia or Herpes. Some people call STIs STDs.

When one person does a sexual act to, on, or inside another person who does not want to participate; who refuses to participate and/or who does not or is unable to fully and freely consent to take part in that activity.