free relationship

free relationship
   licence within a heterosexual partnership to copulate with third parties
   There is an implication perhaps that a normal union in which the parties copulate only with each other involves sexual servility:
    Our marriage had broken up over my jealousy. Esther wanted a free relationship. (M. McCarthy, 1963)

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