I just found it interesting that you listed fan proclivities twice, and both lists were mostly sexual tendencies plus pagansim.
I also said "role-playing games" and "technology." Granted, both of those
could be turned toward sex if one was creative, but that isn't the context in which I meant them. >8->
And then in that last post you put poly and paganism together as if their was a cause and effect thing going on or a tight connection. I wasn't sure if polyamory was a tenant of paganism. Having browsed the CAW site, it looks like there is a loose connection. Maybe like a Christian church and potluck dinners.
Heh. Cool metaphor. I think you have the spirit of it right. There are plenty of Pagans who aren't poly, and plenty of polyamorous people who are Christian, Jewish, atheist, whatever. But if you go to a Pagan gathering you're going to run into
a lot of poly people, and vice versa. And if you go to a typical SF convention, you'll find plenty of Pagan/Poly/etc. fans.
I looked for the venn diagram but didn't find it.
Oh, I didn't mean there was an actual diagram somewhere. I just meant that the overlapping communities could be visualized as one.
I think it's impossible to say that the pagans and polys are not open-minded. They are practically open-minded by definition.
Unfortunately, as eytanz already pointed out, that's very much not true. You can be closed-minded and confrontational about
any belief. I've known Pagans who were actively hostile toward good Christians without any provocation, and poly people who felt that monogamy wasn't just "not for them," but unnatural and wrong. I think
most Pagan and poly people find that sort of bigotry among their own ranks embarrassing and unhelpful, but it does happen.