Diomysus: A film with the polyamory community

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BBC presents Emily Morus-Jones’ award-winning film about polyamory, asking: are we more open to taboo ideas?

Polyamory is a type of non-monogamy that’s becoming more and more common in the UK. Polyamorous relationships involve people dating more than one person at a time, with the consent of everyone involved. It’s a dating structure that sees love as abundant and not restricted to one partner.

Just as it’s expected that we have many friends and the capacity to love them all, polyamorous people have the capacity to love and be in a relationship with multiple partners. There are lots of different ways to be polyamorous: throuples, solo polyamorists, a V, and more.

The media often shows polyamory in a negative or sensationalised way, whether that’s through articles, films, documentaries, or news stories. But it’s becoming more common for people to explore their sexuality outside of monogamy.

Cue Emily Morus-Jones‘ 5 minute film called Diomysus. The award-winning film interviews people from the British polyamory community, using puppets to hide the interviewees’ identities and allowing them to be safely honest and open about their experiences. Through these interviews, the film asks the viewer: how conscious is your bias?

“I wanted to use this opportunity to give a more honest, positive, insider’s account of polyamory, which is often trivialised or sensationalised on film despite the fact that it is most certainly on the rise in the UK”, Emily explains.

People who wished to stay anonymous are voiced by Ruby Rare – a wonderful sex educator, who runs non-monogamous workshops and is non-monogamous herself.

The film is now available to watch via the BBC – check it out!