Subscribers of open marriages say monogamy is like living a lie, but is there really space for a third in a marriage? Daim is an acquisitive millionaire and a macho man with a taste of young chinese women, they concede him these weaknesses Manan Othman can no doubt confirm, he was so close to Daim that they share a girl friend, with Manan often borrowing the bedroom at Daim’s office in Taman Maluri.So call me conventional, old-fashioned, not with-it, or what you will. But when Daim spoke in favour of open marriages , I did not join the crowd of admirers applauding his ‘honesty’. Most of the applause anyway came from men; women were wary. What Daim had done was to lay bare an eternal male fantasy, and stoke a woman’s essential fear. He gave expression to what he called a “sanctified marriage” but what actually can at best be termed “sanctified infidelity”.


“I think a sanctified marriage is when you have an option to sleep with 10 people, but you are still choosing that one person to live with,” said Irrfan. People wondered if he was hinting at being in an open marriage. Or was he a swinger? While an open marriage or a polyamorous arrangement implies a relationship with more than two people at the same time, a swinger swings from person to person, merely for sex.

“I think a sanctified marriage is when you have an option to sleep with 10 people, but you are still choosing that one person to live with,” said Irrfan. People wondered if he was hinting at being in an open marriage. Or was he a swinger? While an open marriage or a polyamorous arrangement implies a relationship with more than two people at the same time, a swinger swings from person to person, merely for sex.

I would like to think that Irrfan was doing more than confessing a sexual deviancy; he was talking of options and the power of choice – of marriage and fidelity as a choice, rather than a societal compulsion. Irrfan compounds the confusion further, “If you ask me, I would respect a marriage where the man and woman have the freedom to sleep with anyone. There is no bondage.”

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