[greenshackle]

Well, dating five people if you're (mostly hetero) female; dating one or two people, who are each dating five people, if you're (mostly hetero) male.

Edit: Arguably, this is a better outcome than monogamy in a highly gender-skewed community (e.g. 1 in 2 het men dateless).

[Karrot_Kream]

Source? (I'm not being argumentative, just genuinely curious if this is anything but anecdote.)

[yummyfajitas]

http://lesswrong.com/lw/lhg/2014_survey_results/

50% monogamous, 15% poly.

Every lesswrong group I've visited - in the US, Europe and India - had multiple polyamorous people present and discussing polyamory, so I'd be surprised if this poll is way off.

[unimpressive]

Oh look at that, a perfect opportunity for me to plug that I ran the 2016 survey with updated results:

http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/nmk/2016_lesswrong_dias...

http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/nor/2016_lesswrong_dias...

http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/nqa/2016_lesswrong_dias...

http://lesswrong.com/lw/nx2/2016_lesswrong_diaspora_survey_a...

The one that concerns you is that LessWrong is now 18.2% polyamorous. This might just be an effect of increased scope of survey respondents though.

[greenshackle]

Anecdote, i.e. me dating a girl with 3 boyfriends in the Bay Area.