Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Polyfidelity is restricting one's sexual activities to a single group of people, each of whom follows the same rules and has sex only within the group. It has been argued that this arrangement, a form of polyamory, offers the same safer sex advantages as monogamy, if the only way to join the group is a negative test for sexually transmitted diseases. The lack of completely reliable tests for STDs -- false negatives can occur and some STDs, such as HIV, are not detectable by blood test for up to six months after exposure -- suggests, however, that even in the absence of cheating, the risk would increase for each participant relative to monogamy, which may be regarded for this purpose as polyfidelity with a group size of two. See also: fluid monogamy fluid bonded This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.