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==Terminology==
This relationship type has elements of [[bisexual]]ity involved, but occasionally at least one of the participants is [[heterosexual]], [[homosexual]] or [[asexual]].<ref name="Encyclopedia.com 2022">{{cite web | title=Ménage à Trois | website=Encyclopedia.com | date=February 28, 2022 | url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/menage-trois | access-date=March 19, 2022}}</ref> Because this term is sometimes interchangeably used for a [[threesome]], which solely refers to a sexual experience involving three people, it can sometimes be misrepresented as some type of casual encounter.<ref name="Publishing 2009 p. 138">{{cite book | last=Publishing | first=B. | title=Faux Pas?: A No-Nonsense Guide to Words and Phrases from Other Languages | publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing | year=2009 | isbn=978-1-4081-0348-7 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aoSxAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA138 | access-date=March 19, 2022 | page=138}}</ref> However, the ''ménage à trois'' is a specific type of committed relationship, in which vows are often made. It does not apply to all polyamorous relationships with three individuals, since polyamory can have many different forms.
 
The topic sometimes overlaps seemingly opposing concepts such as [[Christian feminism]] and [[lesbian feminism]].<ref name="Roach 2003 p. 16">{{cite book | last=Roach | first=C.M. | title=Mother / Nature: Popular Culture and Environmental Ethics | publisher=Indiana University Press | year=2003 | isbn=978-0-253-10978-1 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=znCu-JEASj4C&pg=PA16 | access-date=March 19, 2022 | page=16}}</ref><ref name="Roffey 2019">{{cite web | last=Roffey | first=Monique | title=Reinventing the ménage à trois for the feminist age | website=Boundless | date=August 23, 2019 | url=https://unbound.com/boundless/2019/08/23/feminist-possibilities-for-the-menage-a-trois/ | access-date=March 19, 2022}}</ref> These ideas were explored by film maker [[Angela Robinson (filmmaker)|Angel Robinson]] in her film ''[[Professor Marston and the Wonder Women]]'' through the love story of historical couple [[William Moulton Marston]] and [[Elizabeth Holloway Marston]] with their research assistant [[Olive Byrne]].<ref name="Berlatsky 2017">{{cite web | last=Berlatsky | first=Noah | title=The crucial thing the new Wonder Woman movie gets right | website=The Verge | date=October 16, 2017 | url=https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/16/16481692/wonder-woman-professor-marston-homophobia-history-sexuality-real-life-vs-fiction | access-date=March 19, 2022}}</ref><ref name="The Comics Journal 2017">{{cite web | title=Professor Marston and the Wonder Women | website=The Comics Journal | date=October 17, 2017 | url=https://www.tcj.com/professor-marston-and-the-wonder-women/ | access-date=March 19, 2022}}</ref><ref name="Ph.D. 2017">{{cite web | last=Ph.D. | first=Travis Langley | title=The "True Story" of Wonder Woman's Marston Ménage à Trois | website=Psychology Today | date=October 9, 2017 | url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/beyond-heroes-and-villains/201710/the-true-story-wonder-womans-marston-m-nage-trois | access-date=March 19, 2022}}</ref>