The framework suite is designed to be academically testable without overstating what has already been demonstrated. Its component distinctions draw on existing scholarship; its integrated architectures and novel constructs remain validation candidates.
Existing research supports many component distinctions: identity, attraction, behavior, sexual and romantic attraction, sex traits and gender, fantasy and intention, relationship agreements, autonomy, jealousy, compersion, power, stigma, and change over time.
Organizing those constructs into MOSAIC’s seven domains, TRIAD’s five domains and three levels, or SCOPE’s five domains, four units, and seven states is an original theoretical synthesis.
Attraction topology, multiplex consent, couple-protection load, agreement concordance, governance centralization, entanglement concentration, evolution range, and similar constructs require formal definition and empirical validation.
A research-informed integration of seven partially independent, context-sensitive, and potentially time-varying dimensions.
A multilevel framework for consensual threesome-related interest, roles, attraction, consent, context, and outcomes.
A multilevel framework separating relationship identity, structure, functioning, governance, power, openness, and entanglement.
The research program must test the frameworks against simpler alternatives rather than assuming comprehensiveness is automatically superior.
Operationalize each construct; review with sexuality researchers, psychometricians, clinicians, sexual-health professionals, community educators, and people with lived experience.
Test whether respondents actually distinguish identity from attraction, fantasy from intention, openness from enactment, consent from compliance, and hierarchy from entanglement.
Begin with broad item pools, remove redundancy, evaluate respondent burden, and preserve “not applicable,” “uncertain,” “prefer not to answer,” and skip options.
Use factor analysis only where latent scales are appropriate; supplement with item-response models, latent-profile analysis, dyadic models, multilevel models, and social-network analysis.
Assess internal consistency where relevant, test–retest stability, branching consistency, interpartner agreement, network reporting consistency, and sensitivity to genuine developmental change.
Compare with established measures while demonstrating that the frameworks preserve distinctions—such as attraction not being conduct—and add value beyond conventional labels.
Test across gender, sexual identity, race and ethnicity, age, disability, relationship structure, experience, socioeconomic status, language, and national culture.
Measure change across identity development, relationship transitions, opening or closing agreements, new-partner formation, triadic events, breakups, caregiving changes, and network reorganization.
The complete MOSAIC, TRIAD, and SCOPE architectures have not yet demonstrated reliability, factor structure, predictive validity, or measurement invariance as unified instruments.
No score can prove consent quality, coercion, fairness, adherence to agreements, relationship health, or the safety of acting on a fantasy.
Sexuality and CNM research often relies on Western, educated, internet-connected, community-identified, or otherwise nonrepresentative samples.
Attraction, role preference, openness, capacity, jealousy, and desired relationship development may differ by person, partner, configuration, event, culture, and life stage.
Large item banks risk fatigue, careless responding, excessive sensitivity, and false precision. Adaptive branching and modular administration are necessary.
Novel distinctions must demonstrate practical and empirical utility. Constructs that cannot be reliably distinguished should be revised, combined, or removed.
Allow browser-only completion, preview, and export without creating an account or transmitting response data.
Separate permission to store, compare, share, export, or send specific sections to an AI narrative service.
Users should be able to delete raw answers, derived values, narratives, comparison records, and backups according to clear retention rules.
This website is a public-facing overview rather than a complete bibliography. Full papers should retain formal references and source-level claim tracing.
Start with the person-level MOSAIC framework, then move into TRIAD or SCOPE only where those modules are relevant.
