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Compersion is a term used by practitioners of polyamory to describe the experience of taking pleasure when one's partner is with another person. It was originally coined by the Kerista Commune in San Francisco[1] (or possibly by the ZEGG community in Germany[2]) which practiced polyfidelity, and has since been adopted throughout the culture of polyamory. The term is often expressed as "the opposite of jealousy",[2] since that term is used to describe one's pain at a lover's experiences with others. Start of polyamory contingent at San Francisco Pride 2004. ... Kerista was a new religion that was started in New York City in 1956 by Bro Jud Presmont. ... ZEGG (Zentrum für experimentelle Gesellschaftsgestaltung, or Center for Experimental Cultural Design) is an ecovillage located on 15 acres (61,000 m²) in Belzig near Berlin, Germany. ... Polyfidelity, a form of polyamory, is the restricting of ones sexual activities nonpreferentially to a single group of people, each of whom follows the same rules and has sex only within the group. ... Jealousy typically refers to the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that occur when a person believes a valued relationship is being threatened by a rival. ...


Compersion can be said to be a form of empathy; i.e. pleasure that a loved one is experiencing a good thing in his or her life. Articles with similar titles include Pity and Sympathy and Compassion. ...

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Formal definitions

  • PolyOz define compersion as "the positive feelings one gets when a lover is enjoying another relationship. Sometimes called the opposite or flip side of jealousy." They comment that compersion can coexist with jealous feelings. [2]
  • The Polyamory society defines compersion to be "the feeling of taking joy in the joy that others you love share among themselves, especially taking joy in the knowledge that your beloveds are expressing their love for one another." [1]

Related terms

The adjective frubbly and the noun frubbles are sometimes used, in the poly community in the United Kingdom and the United States, to describe the feeling of compersion.[3] These terms are more suited to cheerful, light-hearted conversation, and they are more grammatically versatile, for example: "I'm feeling all frubbly" and "Their relationship fills me with frubbles".


References

  1. ^ a b Polyamory Society Glossary. Retrieved on 2006-12-26.
  2. ^ a b c http://polyoz.scm-rpg.com.au/postnuke2/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&ceid=8&meid=-1
  3. ^ Alexander, Steven. "Free love gets a fit of the wibbles", Guardian Unlimited, 2005-04-04. Retrieved on 2006-07-05. 

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See also

Start of polyamory contingent at San Francisco Pride 2004. ... Jealousy typically refers to the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that occur when a person believes a valued relationship is being threatened by a rival. ... Acceptance, in spirituality, mindfulness, and human psychology, usually refers to the experience of a situation without an intention to change that situation. ... Adultery is voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and a partner other than the lawful spouse. ...

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