Hmmm:

[Valentine's Day] takes work for even the most diligent polyamorist.

Take former polyamorist Joshua Pellicer, who before settling down with the woman of his dreams dated as many as seven women at a time. "For some reason, I could never get past that number," he said, adding that he was always upfront about his polyamory from the git-go.

He admits that Valentine's Day can be hard on guys who are dating just one woman, but says having seven ladies in your life to satisfy can be, well, complicated. "Women have a stronger emotional connection to Valentine's Day," he told AOL News. "For guys, it's just a day to comply with what's expected. So when you're dating seven women, you have to make seven women feel special."

I'm pro-poly and I vote. But...

Describing yourself or your relationships as "poly" implies that there's something more than sex going on. It implies that there's something loving and nurturing and mutually supportive about your relationships. "Poly" doesn't mean "tons of sex with tons of people." So while a person may be able to casually date seven people at once, while a person can have seven fuckbuddies or FWBs on speed dial (or more), a person really can't "be with" seven people at once in the having-an-actual-relationship sense of "be with." At some point, the law of diminishing returns has to kick in. So that doesn't sound poly to me. It just sounds... ambitious.

And if you become a "former polyamorist" the moment your dream woman comes along, well, maybe you weren't really poly at all. Maybe you were just, you know, playing the field, sowing your wild oats, slutting around, etc. No need to attach a $10 word to that. Just call it what is.