Louis Theroux's Altered States (2018): Season 1, Episode 1 - Love Without Limits - full transcript

- You said you have a lot of sex?
- I do have a lot of sex.

What do you mean by that?

Well, I, I'm in a relationship
with two other women

and my wife and…

…all of them want to have sex
at least once a week, if not more.

So you can do the math on all that.

And do you like that?

It's great.

Who wouldn't want to have my life?

I was in Portland, Oregon,

exploring a radically different way
of looking at love.



Who goes where, if I may ask?

I go in the middle,
Nick is to my left,

and then Bob's over
on the right side.

Polyamory is the practice of
pursuing multiple romantic

relationships with the consent
of all those involved.

Joe asked my permission
to ask her to marry him.

I said, "Yeah! Pshh!
Make her an honest woman!

"Finally!"

THEY LAUGH

It promises more emotional and
sexual fulfilment…

…but with freedom
can come jealousy.

Are you struggling?

It does not feel that it is
for the faint of heart.

And the question of whether
more love also means more risk.



Thinking that polyamory
is going to fix your relationship

is absolutely doomed to failure.

- Are you ready?
- Yes, I'm ready, yeah.

ELECTRIC STATIC BUZZES

- Hello?
- Hello!

- Hi. Louis. How do you do?
- Hi, I'm Heidi.

- It's nice to meet you.
- Heidi, how do you do? You must be Piper?

- I'm Piper.
- You must be Jerry?