I recently picked up a relationship guide entitled, “The Black Book:  An Introduction to the Art of Sampling,” written by Romaine Masiah Williams.  The book promises to help cheaters, oops I mean “samplers,” navigate the monogamous world by providing tips on how to keep simultaneous relationships intact, but mum.  Williams starts off explaining that “sampling” is synonymous with cheating, but reasons that the word “sample” doesn’t have the same negative connotation as cheating.  Williams attempts to change the negative connotation of cheating by offering a different word in its place, i.e. sampling: