The Ben Shapiro Show - July 31, 2026


The New York Times Is Now Promoting Polyamory


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00:00:00.000 Why does the left keep promoting polyamory?
00:00:03.000 Like, really, are they that bored?
00:00:06.000 Are they just that unable to find somebody decent to settle down with?
00:00:08.000 Like, what's going on over there?
00:00:09.000 The crazies who work over at the New York Times, you know, they've been promoting people like Hassan Piker.
00:00:13.000 So, again, that's not a shock.
00:00:15.000 And even stealing.
00:00:16.000 So now the Times is endorsing polyamory or having multiple spouses at once of all different shapes and sizes and sexes and such.
00:00:22.000 Well, it turns out that the family is the building block of society and strong families and strong homes and basic virtue.
00:00:28.000 That's what the country was built on.
00:00:29.000 We need those on the local level.
00:00:31.000 We need that as a bulwark against.
00:00:33.000 Tyranny and also societal collapse.
00:00:35.000 Well, the New York Times doesn't like any of that.
00:00:36.000 So apparently, they're going to just pitch you on why you should bang like a thousand people at once.
00:00:40.000 Let's break down this crazy article together.
00:00:43.000 Is polyamory right for you?
00:00:45.000 Elizabeth Chef spent 30 years studying polyamory.
00:00:48.000 Here's what she said.
00:00:49.000 The answer, by the way, is no.
00:00:50.000 It is not right for you.
00:00:51.000 Stop being an idiot.
00:00:52.000 That's the answer.
00:00:55.000 In fact, that would be the entire article at the Daily Wire.
00:00:57.000 The title would be Is polyamory right for you?
00:00:59.000 And the text of the article would be no.
00:01:02.000 But according to the New York Times, the answer is maybe if you're a screwed up person.
00:01:07.000 Anna Martin says, as a single woman in my early 30s living in Brooklyn, going on lots of dates, I hear the word polyamory a lot.
00:01:13.000 It seems as if everyone is interested in being poly, had a poly phase in college, or is dating someone who's poly, or had to stop dating someone because that person is poly.
00:01:20.000 At least in my specific corner of the world, it feels as if we've reached peak polysaturation.
00:01:24.000 You need some new friends, lady.
00:01:25.000 Like, really, your social circle is not great.
00:01:29.000 Elizabeth Chef was married to a man who wanted a polyamorous relationship.
00:01:33.000 She had to decide whether that was right for her.
00:01:35.000 So she started meeting polyamorous people and asking them questions.
00:01:38.000 Over time, that poly community helps her come to conclusions about her personal life and relationships and shape the trajectory of her career.
00:01:47.000 So that's awesome.
00:01:51.000 She says, I was 22.
00:01:52.000 I was in college dating this woman that I was super crushed out on.
00:01:54.000 She was not that interested in me.
00:01:56.000 So I was kind of heartbroken and thought, all right, I'm going to dabble in relationships with men for a little while because it's so much easier to find a man to date.
00:02:02.000 I meet this guy.
00:02:02.000 He tells me on our first date he never wants to be monogamous and he never wants to get married.
00:02:07.000 I had a negative reaction to it from the get go like, okay, that's weird.
00:02:09.000 That doesn't sound good to me.
00:02:10.000 That sounds like a lot of work.
00:02:12.000 That does not sound like fun.
00:02:13.000 Maybe you should have gone with your instinct, lady.
00:02:16.000 Well, no.
00:02:18.000 Then she says, as we got to know each other, I fell in love with him, which totally shocked me.
00:02:18.000 No.
00:02:24.000 He really wanted me to find us a woman we could share.
00:02:26.000 There's a shock.
00:02:27.000 I can't believe it.
00:02:28.000 It turns out that dudes taking advantage of vulnerable women and telling them, we should find a lady to share.
00:02:34.000 You notice how the dudes are never saying to the lady, let's find a dude to share?
00:02:36.000 You notice how that never happens?
00:02:37.000 Like ever?
00:02:39.000 I can't imagine it.
00:02:42.000 We didn't know this term yet at the time, but there's a term for female male couple that is looking for a woman they can both be with.
00:02:47.000 That is unicorn hunter.
00:02:48.000 Because this free-floating bisexual woman who's not in other relationships and just wants to attach herself to a couple and move to their goat farm in North Dakota and raise their children for them, she is so rare that she's mythical.
00:02:57.000 Yeah, because people aren't as crazy as the people who write for the New York Times, generally speaking.
00:03:01.000 That's why.
00:03:04.000 Well, the New York Times asks this researcher, Were there some conversations that made you feel like maybe I should give this a try?
00:03:11.000 Definitely.
00:03:11.000 In part that he wanted a big family and we had two children, and that was really as much as I felt like I could handle.
00:03:16.000 I didn't want to bear any more children.
00:03:17.000 I didn't feel like I could manage any more children.
00:03:19.000 I was working on my PhD, teaching at night, trying to write my dissertation during the day with two small children.
00:03:23.000 It was a lot.
00:03:24.000 He was like, you know what?
00:03:25.000 If we could have another woman who really wants to take care of kids, and you could be like the 1950s dad, you just come home from work, read your newspaper while other people take care of the kids and make food and clean the house and stuff.
00:03:34.000 So not only is this mythical unicorn woman going to be equally attracted to both of us, she's going to have a house cleaning fetch.
00:03:39.000 You could have just hired a housekeeper.
00:03:41.000 You could have.
00:03:42.000 I love how they're just, I love how this lady is like apparently into her husband just reproducing.
00:03:50.000 Old style polygamy.
00:03:54.000 Like old style
00:03:57.000 Muslim radical world polygamy.
00:03:59.000 Like a dude with seven wives, with the primary wife, and then a bunch who just kind of help out with the cleaning and the cooking.
00:04:04.000 Like, what in the world?
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00:05:28.000 Well, says the New York Times, when do you remember hearing the word polyamory for the first time?
00:05:34.000 And she says, I was driving home from grad school listening to NPR.
00:05:37.000 Of course.
00:05:38.000 That is, of course, where you heard about it.
00:05:39.000 NPR, Repository for All Stupidity.
00:05:42.000 The host was interviewing this person, Ryan Nearing.
00:05:43.000 She's a big deal in the polyamorous community, and especially at this time.
00:05:46.000 She had started this organization called Loving More.
00:05:49.000 And I was just like, oh my God, that's it.
00:05:51.000 That's the thing he's been talking about.
00:05:54.000 Loving openly and honestly, is how she describes it.
00:05:56.000 Loving multiple people at the same time, having multiple partner relationships, but not hiding it from anyone.
00:06:00.000 And that's exactly what he had been talking about.
00:06:04.000 And she went to a meetup.
00:06:08.000 And, um, Then, of course, she decided that this is a thing that she wanted to do.
00:06:14.000 I felt much less afraid of it.
00:06:15.000 It seemed much less sinister.
00:06:18.000 The more I came to learn about polyamory, the less threatening it felt, the more comfortable with it I became.
00:06:22.000 I wondered, is this something I would want?
00:06:25.000 So it turns out that, but you won't believe it, this crazy lady, her research is about how polyamory is awesome.
00:06:30.000 After her entire journey through becoming polyamorous, already being bisexual, she decided that polyamory is awesome.
00:06:37.000 I can't believe it.
00:06:37.000 It's almost as though the research outcome was guided entirely by your desire for the research outcome.
00:06:42.000 I cannot believe it.
00:06:45.000 Shocking.
00:06:48.000 So, the New York Times says, We're talking about this idea that kids can maintain emotional relationships with their parents' partners, even if the parent and the partner break up, correct?
00:06:57.000 And she says, Yes, absolutely.
00:06:59.000 Perhaps even more important, that is the emotional relationships at the core of the polyamorous family.
00:07:05.000 From the inside, the emotional relationships between and among people who are not sexual partners are the real backbone of the polyamorous family.
00:07:12.000 And there are so many great things about a polyamorous family.
00:07:15.000 When kids are little, they think all the attention is great.
00:07:18.000 When they are tweens, they think the practicality of getting a ride is really nice for them.
00:07:21.000 Oh, so mom is banging seven dudes, but it's awesome because rides are available.
00:07:26.000 Great.
00:07:27.000 I'm sure the kids are real happy.
00:07:31.000 One kid was telling me how he had gone to his mom and been like, Mom, I want some money to go to the store and get candy.
00:07:35.000 And the mom was like, No, did you do your chores?
00:07:38.000 And he goes to mom's sweetie, and mom's sweetie is like, I have 10 bucks in Snickers.
00:07:40.000 You need a ride to the store because the partners want to be the fun aunt or uncle.
00:07:45.000 Wow, I can't.
00:07:46.000 That was probably, probably that kid ended up just fine.
00:07:46.000 Wow.
00:07:50.000 Just fine.
00:07:54.000 Amazing stuff.
00:07:55.000 Really great stuff here from the New York Times.
00:07:58.000 There are some disadvantages, apparently.
00:08:01.000 Only the stigma, really, the stigma.
00:08:07.000 So, great job, New York Times.
00:08:09.000 You've done it.
00:08:10.000 You've uncovered the mode of living that is least likely to lead to success.
00:08:13.000 And now you're touting it as a possibility for everyone.
00:08:24.000 So, there are a lot of folks who will point out that in the Bible, there are biblical fathers, right, who had many wives.
00:08:29.000 It didn't work out amazing.
00:08:32.000 It didn't work out amazing.
00:08:33.000 If you read the book of Genesis, it turns out the multiple wives thing was kind of a problem.
00:08:37.000 It was not great.
00:08:38.000 And yes, there are cultures where the men have a million wives.
00:08:42.000 This exists in, it existed for centuries in large parts of the East and the Middle East and Africa.
00:08:48.000 Still exists in many parts of the world.
00:08:50.000 Is it great for the ladies?
00:08:51.000 Is it?
00:08:53.000 Has it been the sort of liberating influence that people were looking for?
00:08:57.000 It's just, Ridiculous, of course.
00:09:01.000 She was looking for autonomy and closeness.
00:09:05.000 Oh, my goodness.
00:09:07.000 Great job, New York Times.
00:09:08.000 You're doing it.
00:09:09.000 You're fixing America.
00:09:10.000 One polyamorous polycule at a time.
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