HGTV's 'House Hunters' episode features first 'throuple'

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The popular HGTV show "House Hunters," which typically features couples searching for a home and navigating their varied preferences, featured its first "throuple" in an episode this week.

The episode focused on Brian, Lori, and Geli. Brian and Lori were already legally married when they met Geli, and apparently fell in love with her, at a bar. The couple later exchanged vows in a "commitment ceremony, which was attended by Brian and Lori's two children.

HGTV issued a statement on the episode in support of all couples. "Yes, we did feature a throuple," HGTV told Newsweek. "We feature all homebuyers and living choices." The channel did not immediately clarify if it will continue to expand the representation of nontraditional couples in its other series.

In the past, the series has included both gay and straight couples, though none have featured more than two partners.
Some viewers were excited about the new twist.

Others were put off by the nontraditional nature of featuring a polygamous couple.

"The normalization of polyamory rolls down the track, just as I and others predicted it would," Princeton professor Robert George wrote. "It was, as I said, less a 'slippery slope' than a simple unfolding of the logic of social liberalism."