This book came about as a side effect of the authors doing a book tour for their previous book, The Polyamory Toolkit. One day while doing a signing someone said they looked forward to using these tools once they found some partners to practice them with. After all, you can identify as polyamourous and believe it is the right relationship choice for you, but that doesn’t mean you’ll suddenly find people lining up to try it with you!
As the tour continued, that same question kept coming up - how do I meet poly people for potential relationships and once we’ve met, how do I let them know I’m interested?
They realized that most of the advice out there was some version of ‘try a dating app’ (without any advice on how to modify monogamous focused apps for polyamory); or stories of people who did all the right things to find someone but didn’t know how to make a connection once they did; or terrible advice around the key to successful poly dating being to reveal as little as possible about other partners. Most of the books on flirting we encountered were focused on tricks to get other people in bed. Flirting, in our mind, should be about ethical interaction and is a lot more than just a ‘how to get sex’ guide.
The authors further realized that the two of them have a different perspective on dating and flirting. Dan has a really easy time finding partners and is a natural flirt. He seems to do both effortlessly and his limitations on dating are more about not having enough time instead of enough people to date. Dawn on the other hand has a very different experience with both finding people as well as what to do once she finds someone. It is this diverse experience that lead us to create this book of practical advice, tips and techniques that would work for anyone