Group marriage must be contrasted with polyfamilies, which is similar to group marriage but where some members may not considered themselves married to all other members.

I tell you he's the stuff that will take 'em over the top and make the boches feel cold in the pit of their fat tumtums when they see him coming.

Faire Venus seemde vnto his bed to bring Her, whom he waking euermore did weene, To be the chastest flowre, that ay did spring On earthly braunch, the daughter of a king, Now a loose Leman to vile seruice bound[…].

In fact, at the age of fifty-three, Pasolini might well have been Gore's doppelgänger, and what Italo Calvino had written about Pasolini could have applied to Vidal as well: he was “the ideologizer of eros and the eroticizer of ideology.”