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Why are progressive feminists letting their husbands put them in polyamorous harems?

Lindy West would like you to believe she is perfectly happy in her throuple, living with her husband and another woman.

But she’s clearly coping.

The comedian’s new book is proof that she’s given into her husband’s sexual demand to go non-monogamous, and suffered a massive blow to her own confidence. 

Her story is a reminder that polyamory can be the patriarchy disguised as progressivism — encouraging women to shrink themselves to stay in their partners’ lives.

West, 44, released her third book “Adult Braces,” on Tuesday, and shared her story of accepting that her husband, Aham, wanted to see other people.

“I was devastated,” she told the New York Times. “Our initial conversation was a lot of me crying and being like, I don’t want anyone else.”

This was not her vision of their future — “I thought we would probably have a baby and buy a house.”

Rather than mutually decide they wanted to open up their marriage, it was presented to West as an ultimatum.

She didn’t put her foot down and say no. Instead, she embarked on a begrudging journey to accept her husband’s new girlfriend, out of fear of losing him.

Men are twice as likely to say they are polyamorous or want to be. And some women like West are capitulating to their demands, convincing themselves that opening their relationship is the........

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