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Free Love Movement

The Free Love movement originated in the Mid-nineteenth century. It encouraged relationships among people to be ties that the state and government should not intervene in any way, legally. This movement catapulted much criticism towards general sexuality, as well as the focus on feminism and gay liberation movements. Abolitionism also had an important play in solidifying "Free Loveism" through critiques of southern slavery, and entered the world of social movements by means of spiritualism. This radical movement was affected greatly by the Secularists movement, Free Thinking feminists, and the Free Thought movement. Not only do the ties of free thought, free love, and feminism go beyond their intertwined framework, the anti-religious intellectuals' context is also a relating factor because there needs to be an extension of analysis between relationships of religion, feminism, liberation, and sexuality.

This Free Love movement of Libertarian Socialism believed the intervention of legal laws damaged the love formed between people, including the limitation of a marriage consisting of only two people. Many people assume we have to be monogamous because the way we were raised thinking would be that it was the right thing to do, but there are many articles contradicting this theory. One example would be "The Infidelity Instinct" article, which provides information from "The Myth of Monogamy" that states exactly what it sounds like, that Biologically, we are polygamous by nature. The Free Love ideology does not only have a feminist following and support, but some say it was fostered by male ideology because both men and women advocate sexual freedom as well as equality for both genders. The separation of sex and reproduction was a consequence of this movement, including the increasing and expanding repertoire of sexual behaviors that changed the way people perceive what is normal compared to today's society, but there is still close-mindedness taking part through the legal side of the system which still pertains today.