The Sexual Health Research Laboratory at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada is calling for polyamorous individuals and those with diverse partner configurations to participate in a focus group to help aid the development of a comprehensive and inclusive measure of sexual wellbeing that can be used to assess one’s broad experience of sexual wellbeing in both research and healthcare settings. Your unique lived experience of sexuality is important to incorporate when developing these questionnaires so that we can ensure the questions and wording is acceptable and inclusive for everyone.

As a non-monogamous queer researcher I am disappointed that the commonly used surveys in psychological and medical research are developed by and for monogamous people, and discount the experiences of those who love multiple people. I aim to change this with my research.

Participants must be able to read and write in English, be 18 years of age or older, reside in Canada or the US, and be comfortable answering questions about sexuality. You do not need to be sexually active to participate. Participation will consist of the completion of a ~15-minute online demographic survey, and, if selected to participate, engage in a confidential 90 – 120 minute focus group over Zoom. Entry into prize draws are available for the online survey and as a thank you for your participation! Those selected to participate in the focus group will be compensated for their time. There is also the option to participate in a one-on-one interview if you prefer not to participate in a group setting. This research has been approved by the General Research Ethics Board (GREB); TRAQ #6037475. To participate please contact us at [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) and mention the Kaleidoscope study.

*This study was moderator approved

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