Postcard from 1910, with the words "This is life!"
Threesome love ( fr. Ménage à trois , literally - three-person household) is a form of relationship in which three people live together and have sex with each other [1] . Ménage à trois is one of the possible variants of group marriage , which in the post-Soviet space is traditionally called the " Swedish family ".
In art
The phenomenon is represented in such literary works as “ Envy ” of Olesha , “Love of the Bees of Labor” by Alexandra Kollontai and the cinema, including films:
- " Third Meshchanskaya " Abram Rooma .
- Jules and Jim by Francois Truffaut
- " Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid " by JR Hill
- “ Retro threesome ” by Peter Todorovsky
- " Dreamers " by Bernardo Bertolucci
Historical examples
- Russian poet and publicist Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov , writer and memoirist Avdotya Yakovlevna Panayeva and her husband journalist and writer Ivan Ivanovich Panayev ;
- Russian Soviet poet Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky , writer Lilya Yurievna Brik and her husband, literary critic Osip Maksimovich Brik ;
- British diplomat William Hamilton , his wife Emma Hamilton and Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson ;
- Duchess of Devonshire Georgiana Cavendish , her husband the 5th Duke of Devonshire William Cavendish, and Lady Elizabeth Foster ;
- British politician, financier and industrialist Henry Monde , His wife Amy Gwen Wilson and English writer and playwright Gilbert Kannan ;
- The Swedish king Gustav III , Earl Adolph Fredrik Munch and Queen of Sweden Sofia Magdalena ;
- French writer Charles Viller , German scientist, Dorothea von Rodde-Schlozer , Ph.D. and her husband, burghermeister Mütek Mateus Rodde;
- Violinist Olga Rudge , American poet Ezra Pound and his wife Dorothy Shakespeare;
- French poet Paul Eluard , his wife Elena Ivanovna Dyakonova and German-French artist Max Ernst ;
- English writer Aldous Huxley , his first wife, Mary and Mary Hutchinson;
- English poetess Edith Nesbit , her husband, bank clerk Hubert Bland, and his mistress Alice Hoatson;
- American psychologist, inventor and author of comics William Marston , his wife Elizabeth Marston and his mistress, journalist Olivia Byrne;
- German philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche , Paul Re and their common friend, writer Lou Salome ;
- The Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung , his wife the psychiatrist Emma Jung and his patient, and then the psychoanalyst, assistant and mistress Tony Wolff ;
- American writer and artist Henry Miller , his second wife June Edith Smith and her mistress Gene Kronsky;
- The Swiss theologian Karl Barth , his wife Nellie Barth and his mistress Charlotte von Kirschbaum .
- Russian revolutionary Marxist Vladimir Ulyanov-Lenin , his wife Nadezhda Krupskaya and revolutionary Inessa Armand [2] .
See also
- Group marriage
- Polyamory
- Polygamy
Notes
- ↑ ménage à trois (English) . Cambridge Dictionary . The appeal date is February 5, 2018.
- Brenton, 2017 , by Sean McMekin, “Lenin Enters the Scene,” p. 124.
Literature
- Anthony Brenton. Historical inevitability? Key events of the Russian revolution (Collection of articles) = Tony Brenton. Historically Inevitable ?: Turning Points of the Russian Revolution. - M .: Alpina Non-Fiction, 2017. - 414 p. - ISBN 978-5-91671-757-0 .