policywank
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"Cuckold" originally meant wife taken from you and you are thus society's or the village's laughingstock.
Anything outside of this definition begs for other names, each kind of relationship deserving of an accurate description. For example, my wife's and mine . . .
What would you call it? While I don't want or need any other womand, I'm intensely turned on by my wife flashing, sexually teasing, arousing, and being the center of attention and, sometimes, more, of another man or several.
In the man or men, the essential ingredients are, ideally, she finds him or them equally exciting, and that amid all the risk and adventure there is a degree of safety.
I love my wife and she, me. Now . . . What do you call our relationship?
So if the village doesn't laugh or the cuckold doesn't feel humiliated is he not a cuckold? Perhaps but that seems odd to me.
Some people seem to assume that being a cuckold inherently involves humiliation. But isn't that similar to the way being gay or a prostitute or a divorcee used to be viewed as involving in innate degree of shame. As society evolved we stopped shaming those people but that didn't change the words used. At most we stopped using the more derogatory versions.
Cuckold just hasn't evolved as far as those other examples because we haven't broadly accepted any sexual practices beyond monogamy. The fact that it is regarded as a pejorative reflects where society is more than word definition.
I would not venture to speculate on your relationship description. Most "open" relationships are not entirely equal. It stands to reason that there is a point at which one becomes cuckold or cuckquean. Where in the continuum does that happen? Is it a function of activity or privilege - does one or the other choose not to take other lovers or is there not reciprocal privileges be design? Who knows aside from each couple?