Hey everyone!

Imagine having a network of people around you that are connected to you and to one other (not necessarily everyone connected with everyone) in meaningful capacities OTHER than sex. So say, friends, coworkers, classmates, co-artists etc. Essentially a network of meaningful human relationships around you, a community that goes in various directions.

Now imagine that within your network there’s also a bunch of free floating sexuality and closeness. Meaning that a lot of people (again, not necessarily everyone) are open to having intimacy and sex with you and one another. Touch is offered very liberally, sex is just another thing you have the option of doing with one another, or also with multiple people at once. Nobody is ever pressured into being sexual of course, but everyone feels free to suggest and initiate without it being a big deal.

Now, and this is crucial. After having intimate experiences, you all return to your previous relationship homeostasis, only more enriched and deeper. So you REMAIN, most of all, friends, co-artists etc. who respect each other strongly in capacities other than sex. There are no traditional romantic relationships forming in the sense of dating and pursuing romance checkboxes. No traditional relationship escalators or commitments. So this is not a polycule. It’s a network where being sexual and intimate and sweet with each other in terms of the body is open, wanted, valid, and not supercharged with any expectations that go further than the substance of the relationship without this aspect. So, NOT a kink/hypersexual community focused around sex either.

Basically. You and people in your network/community/communities love to touch each other on grounds of deep respect that have been cultivated outside the sexual, and without this meaning anything needs to change in accordance with dating culture in the nature of your relationship(s).

The question is, does this type of ENM have a name?

Thanks a lot!