ménage à trois
A ménage à trois is the French term describing a relationship or domestic arrangement in which three people, often a married couple and another lover, share a sexual relationship, although the relationship might or might not involve all three persons having sexual relations with each other.[1] The French phrase literally translates as "household of three".
It is also used to refer to an arrangement where three people share sexual relations, and this has become the predominant definition. Some also use it to describe any sex act involving three people, otherwise known as a threesome. Ménage à trois, especially two women with one man, has become more common, perhaps due to its presentation in porn films. There are ménage à trois arrangements involving two men and one woman, but these seem less common (or less socially acceptable).[2]
Jacob, Rachel, and Leah, a Biblically-described relationship arguably consisting a ménage à troisContents [hide]
1 Fictitious ménages à trois
2 Further reading
3 See also
4 Notes
[edit] Fictitious ménages à trois
The ménage à trois is a recurring theme in fiction and has been the subject of a number of books, plays, and films. Some notable examples which have this as a core theme include:
Design for Living (1933)
Jules et Jim by Henri-Pierre Roché, adapted and filmed in 1961 by François Truffaut.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Paint Your Wagon (1969)
Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), directed by John Schlesinger, a movie about a threesome with a homosexual man, a heterosexual woman, and a bisexual man
Summer Lovers (1982), a film with Peter Gallagher and Daryl Hannah, in which a vacation in Greece leads to a female-male-female relationship that is both emotional and sexual.
Three of Hearts (1993), directed by Yurek Bogayevicz.
Threesome (1994), about a love triangle of three college roommates, two men and a woman: the woman loves/lusts after the gay man, who loves/lusts after the straight man, who loves/lusts after the woman. The movie explores the complications of real friendship, jealousies and sexual relationships among students still discovering their own identities.
Seinfeld (1995), in an episode titled "The Switch," Jerry (Seinfeld) wants to date his girlfriend's roommate. The foil character George encourages Jerry to suggest to his girlfriend that they participate in a threesome with her roommate to effect the plan. She agrees, but then Jerry decides he cannot go through with it. Another episode called "The Label Maker" sees George propose a ménage à trois to exit his relationship, but the plan backfires when the girlfriend's male roommate agrees to it.
Y tu mamá también (2001), a somewhat controversial Mexican coming-of-age movie that focuses heavily on the sexual lives of the three characters, played by Maribel Verdu, Diego Luna, and Gael García Bernal. Features mixed jealousy, hedonism, and repressed bisexuality as major themes.
Politics, a novel about a ménage à trois ("the socialist utopia of sex").
Battlestar Galactica (2006), there is a ménage à trois between Dr. Gaius Baltar and the humanoid Cylons Number Three and Number Six, beginning in "Hero" and apparently ending in "The Eye of Jupiter".
The Dreamers a film staring Eva Green shows a beautiful and functional Ménage à trois with a very unfortunate end.
Cabaret (film) - Takes place in pre-WW2 Germany. Three characters Max, Sally and Brian become involved.
Cold showers (2005)
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