Polyamorous relationships illegal in Canada?

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

Interesting.

Outlawing menage a trois? Lots of luck.

I doubt anyone advocating trying to enforce such a stupid law has any idea of the can of worms they will open.

Ménage à trois is a French term which originally described a domestic arrangement in which three people having sexual relations occupy the same household – the phrase literally translates as "household of three". In contemporary usage, the meaning of the term has been extended to mean any living relationship between three people, whether or not sex is involved, but because it has also been extended to refer to the actual sexual act between three people, otherwise known as a threesome, the term retains its suggestive quality.

Historical instances

Some known examples are

* Emma Hamilton, her husband, and Horatio Nelson.
* Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, the Duke of Devonshire, and Lady Elizabeth Foster
* Henry Mond, 2nd Baron Melchett his wife, Amy Gwen Wilson, and writer Gilbert Cannan.
* In Sweden in 1775, Count Adolf Fredrik Munck af Fulkila had reputedly been hired by king Gustaf III to assist him in the consummation of his marriage with Queen Sophie Magdalena. He was to act as sexual instructor for the couple. His "aid" is alleged to have resulted in the birth of the future King Gustaf IV Adolf in 1778. By further rumors, he was the lover of the king as well as of the queen. These rumors eventually had serious political implications in the end of the House of Holstein-Gottorp's rule in Sweden.
* The German intellectual Dorothea von Rodde-Schlözer, her husband Mattheus Rodde and the French philosopher Charles de Villers from 1794 until her husband's death in 1810.
* Poet Ezra Pound, his wife Dorothy Shakespear and his mistress, concert violinist Olga Rudge.
* Surrealist painters Max Ernst, Paul Éluard and his wife Gala, later Gala Dalí.
* William Moulton Marston, creator of Wonder Woman, and his wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston lived with and shared a relationship with Olive Byrne.
* The actress and stage director Edith Craig who lived with and was in a relationship with the dramatist Christabel Marshall and the artist Clare Atwood from 1916 to 1947.

Speculation that, in 1547-8, Queen Catherine Parr, widow of Henry VIII, and her fourth husband Thomas Seymour were involved in a ménage with the future Queen Elizabeth, is probably exaggerated, although there were well attested episodes of sexually charged horseplay involving the three.[1].

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9nage..._instances

Here in Australia, one of our best known actors, Jack Thompson, was in a menage a trois with two sisters for many years.