Relationship Desk – Symbiosexuality is when someone feels attracted to a couple who are already together. This idea came from a study done by researchers at Seattle University and shared in a journal called Archives of Sexual Behaviour.
The study was led by Dr. Sally W. Johnston. She started looking into this because she noticed that “unicorns”—people who join a couple just for sexual reasons and aren’t involved in other parts of the relationship—often weren’t treated very well.
To understand more about why some people are drawn to couples, Dr. Johnston used answers from a larger survey called The Pleasure Study. This survey had 65 detailed questions about different aspects of people’s identities and their relationships.
Out of 373 people in the survey, 145 said they felt attracted to couples. Most of these people were queer and polyamorous, and they were generally white, middle-class, and had gone to university.
The findings showed that people who are attracted to couples are usually outgoing, like being very close to others, care a lot, and don’t get jealous easily.
Recently, movies and TV shows have started to show characters in these kinds of relationships, like Zendaya’s film “Challengers,” and series like “Gossip Girl” and “Tiger King.”
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