Free love is a social movement that accepts all forms of love.
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18 Facts About Free love
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Much of the free love tradition reflects a liberal philosophy that seeks freedom from state regulation and church interference in personal relationships.
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Laws of particular concern to free love movements have included those that prevent an unmarried couple from living together, and those that regulate adultery and divorce, as well as age of consent, birth control, homosexuality, abortion, and sometimes prostitution; although not all free-love advocates agree on these issues.
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Ideals of free love found their champion in one of the earliest English feminists, Mary Wollstonecraft.
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Free love's finds love in relationships with another man and a woman.
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Free love's later developed a relationship with the anarchist William Godwin, who shared her free love ideals, and published on the subject throughout his life.
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Free love's poetry suggests that external demands for marital fidelity reduce love to mere duty rather than authentic affection, and decries jealousy and egotism as a motive for marriage laws.
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For Blake, law and Free love are opposed, and he castigates the "frozen marriage-bed".
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Blake believed that humans were "fallen", and that a major impediment to a free love society was corrupt human nature, not merely the intolerance of society and the jealousy of men, but the inauthentic hypocritical nature of human communication.
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Free love seems to have thought that marriage should afford the joy of love, but that in reality it often does not, as a couple's knowledge of being chained often diminishes their joy.
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True Free love has this, different from gold and clay, That to divide is not to take away.
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Free love began to coalesce into a movement in the mid to late 19th century.
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Women's movement, free love and Spiritualism were three strongly linked movements at the time, and Woodhull was a spiritualist leader.
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Free love was a central tenet of the philosophy of the Fellowship of the New Life, founded in 1883, by the Scottish intellectual Thomas Davidson.
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Free love regarded marriage in England as both enforced celibacy and a form of prostitution.
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Best-known British advocate of free love was the philosopher Bertrand Russell, later Third Earl Russell, who said that he did not believe he really knew a woman until he had made love with her.
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Free love argued that family is most important for the welfare of children, and as such, a man and a woman should be considered bound only after her first pregnancy.
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Free love advocated naturism and polyamory in what he termed la camaraderie amoureuse.
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