Compersion

Compersion is love manifested when a person takes joy in his or her partner's happiness with another person. It is a form of empathy; that is, pleasure that a loved one is experiencing a good thing in their life. It need not be sexual. This distinguishes it from erotic excitement in watching another person or persons behaving sexually, known as voyeurism. Feeling compersion for the first time has been described as frightening and disorienting because it is so different from normal concepts.

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The term was coined by the Keristan Commune in San Francisco which practiced Polyfidelity, and is one of the core values of polyamory.

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The synonym frubbly is widely used in the UK.

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Empathy: Empathy is the recognition and understanding of the states of mind, including beliefs, desires and particularly emotions of others without injecting your own. This concept is often characterized as the ability to "put oneself into another's shoes", or experiencing for oneself the outlook or emotions...

Voyeurism: Voyeurism is a practice in which an individual derives sexual pleasure from observing other people. Such people may be engaged in sexual acts, or be nude or in underwear, or dressed in whatever other way the "voyeur" finds appealing....

Polyfidelity: Polyfidelity, a form of polyamory, is the restricting of one's sexual activities nonpreferentially to a single group of people, each of whom follows the same rules and has sex only within the group. The term originated within Kerista commune in San Francisco which practiced polyfidelity from 1971-19...