An Australian boxer has explained why she and her partner are able to sleep with other people despite being together.
Shannon Philp is a middleweight boxer who turned to OnlyFans when she wasn't making enough money from the sport to afford a cost of living.
She told the Daily Mail that she and boyfriend Lyndon sat down to discuss it as she lamented that without a 'regular source of income' she can't 'go to the next level' in her sport.
"When you factor in training camps, coaching, travel and medicals, it all adds up," she explained, and said that she and her partner also have licence to sleep with other people if they want without jeopardising the relationship.
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They're into something known as 'ethical non-monogamy' (or ENM if you're into acronyms), and she told the Mail they were 'thriving' after making the decision to try it.
"It is new for both of us, we enjoy it," she said of them getting into the relationship dynamic.
Not becoming jealous of a partner getting with someone else is one of the core aspects of ENM, which is a little different to some other polyamorous relationship types.
While in some other dynamics where there's more than two people in a relationship, catching feelings is not the point of ENM, you are supposed to be in a loving relationship with one partner, even if the door is open for having sex with other people.
Others who've tried the lifestyle have said they've been able to 'explore' some of their desires together, even if that involves bringing other people into the bedroom.
Jem and Daz Jones who appeared on Open House: The Great Sex Experiment said they'd 'got past the early relationship high' and still wanted to be together but their sex life was getting stale so they allowed each other to give new experiences with other people a shot.
Explaining how an ENM relationship works, Daz said: "We are essentially a married couple with children. We live together, we live a perfectly normal relationship for all intents and purposes.
"Then we separate sexual monogamy, which is that we don't see that we need to be exclusive with each other, provided we follow the boundaries that we put in place.
"Anything outside of the boundaries we've set would then be considered cheating. We've just moved the goal posts a bit for ourselves."
It's a different dynamic to the one many couples have, but there are some people it works for.
Topics: Boxing, Dating trends, OnlyFans, Sex and Relationships, Australia
Joe Harker