1996 January 10, "Peanuts" <j@peanuts.demon.co.uk>, "Re: does bi imply poly?", soc.bi, Usenet,
On the basis that monogomous means having one partner at a time, even though there may be numerous partners sequentially, many married people, whatever their orientation, are poly for some of the time purely because of the difficulty of changing partners monogomously ie someone else comes on the scene before the marriage is ended.
1997 October 30, markie1042@aol.com, "Poly-bi (Was: Gender awareness)", soc.bi, Usenet,
I was just reading Carries post and a though crossed my mind about poly relationships. While I've never had the opportunity to act on it, I do believe that one person can love several people simultaneously, in different ways and not always in a precice balance, but truly have strong feelings for several people at once.
1998 February 13, "DragonMaster" <dragonmasterxx@hotmail.com>, "Question about TPE, Poly and finding slaves who are interested.", soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm, Usenet,
I have been given to assignment by my MASTER to bring in additional slaves for a poly bdsm household we are establishing.[…] Many potential slaves who talk to me claim that they are looking for a TPE relationship but would not consider a poly relationship. "They don't want to share their MASTER".
2005, Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio, Plural Loves: Designs for Bi and Poly Living, Haworth Press, page 70, →ISBN
Bi people tend to develop polyamorous identities and poly people tend to develop bisexual identities.
Polies see such experiences as painful but transcendental, and not surprisingly, there's a fair amount of New Age flimflam [...] “People are biologically poly,” she asserts, noting that polyamory occurs even in societies that punish it by death.
2001, Inside the Vatican:
The polies will insist that they were "born that way" and that church […] The newest thing is "polyamory,"
2011, Christer Kaitila, Adobe Flash 11 Stage3D (Molehill) Game Programming Beginner¿s Guide: A Step-by-step Guide for Creating Stunning 3D Games in Flash 11 Stage3D (Molehill) Using AS3 and AGAL with this Book and Ebook, Packt Publishing Ltd (→ISBN)
One mesh could be made from hundreds or thousands of polygons, or "polies". One poly could be a simple triangle with three sides.
1994, Patrick Ainley, Degrees of Difference: Higher Education in the 1990s, Lawrence & Wishart Limited
And going to a poly and not a university, people think degrees only come from universities and polies are only for evening classes. How far such students' previously established social identities conflicted with their new potential roles and ...
