Phoenix Rising

Hello, I am Sigmund, and welcome to my new blog.

I am a successful entrepreneur who spent several years exploring relationships in what people tell me was an unusual way. I documented some of my adventures in a blog entitled, “Adventures in Sex and Relationships.” These adventures ranged from group sex to blind dates, from adventure travel to luxury travel, from an orgy with American porn stars to sex games with Japanese geisha, from being stalked to stalking genius women, from rehab to resorts, from paid sex to paid-for sex, interspersed with a lot of analysis about what it all meant to me.

After several years of this I found a stable point in a woman named “Jenny.” We plighted our troth last year in an agreement that included certain aspects of sexual faithfulness as well as uncommonly brutal honesty; as such it seemed inappropriate to continue my blog on sexual and relationship adventures, so I shut down the blog.

Now I am starting a new but related blog to address perhaps the greatest and most dangerous adventure in sex and relationships of all: monogamy. A friend and worldly American courtesan gave me the idea, noting that so much is written about infidelity and much less about long term monogamy. Many romantic stories imply monogamy but conveniently conclude with the ride into the sunset before the relationship has matured. Some, like The Notebook, imply monogamy, revel in the glory of the romantic beginning, but gloss over the perhaps more mundane details of the in-between day to day banality. Still other treatments deal with coping strategies; such media is usually found in the self-help section next to various books on psychotherapy, weight loss, cancer management, and addiction treatment, as if monogamy and its converse are to be treated as diseases.

Are there no lessons to learn about monogamy? Is it too challenging? Is success too difficult to define?

I hope my analytic approach will represent a new viewpoint even if it is only analyzing the outlier that is my life. And even if, perhaps, I fail in this adventure may it be of value to somebody, even if only as entertainment or, better yet, food for thought.

So here it is.