What is free love? Love is free (have we achieved it)?

So, what is free love, and are we practicins it right now IRL? And what do some people find wrong with Free Love?

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I beleive the problem is that some dislike the concept of free love becuase, if I can recall correctly, is something that sounds a lot like promiscuity and polyamory. A lot of our societies today are based on "you can love one person and be with them for as long as that love lasts" sort of system.

And being in a relationship with multiple people is baaaaaaaad. The Bible says so.

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I don't see how Free Love excludes monogmamy. It's a choice.

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I'm blaming this on the same thing I blame so many other problems on: Abrahamic religions controlling society.

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Disregard. I thought free love was something else. Oops.

edited 16th Jan '11 9:25:32 AM by Pentadragon

^ Considering the definition of free love is "The belief in or practice of sexual relations without marriage and without formal obligations", Abrahamic religions tend to not support such behavior.

Edit: Never mind then.

edited 16th Jan '11 9:28:36 AM by snailbait

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@Diam: counterexample: Japan. And most of non-abrahamic humanity for that matter.

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I guess possessiveness is most likely the reason. It's totally okay if you want to have a one-night stand, but if your partner's doing it then CATASTROPHIC COURTSHIP ERROR. I think the biggest problem with any marriage or similar institution is the idea that you'll be in love with the other person for the rest of your life and they will be too, which is pretty unrealistic.

This makes me want to go on about how SCIENCE! is so great because it tells you not to get attached to your own theories, no matter how much work you put into them. But I digress.

Polygamy gets....confusing. Maybe the Abrahamics (Well mainly christianity and modern judaism, but Islam LIMITED the amount of wives people have and most Muslims dont want to saddle themselves with the annoying burden of that - the american saying 'one wife is enough' comes up) banned p0olygamy and whatnot due to the confusion and sheer drama that would cause. Well that and how excess males mess up a society's demographics.

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In answer to the subject question, "free love" is mindless, animalistic self-gratification.

"The term free love has been used since at least the 19th century to describe a social movement that rejects marriage, which is seen as a form of social bondage, especially for women."

How is this mindless or self-gratifying?

Only rich dudes do it because they are able to

• Provide for their bitcheswives and the babies they pump
• Have a sufficient gradient of power that they can impose their will upon all of the wives and do exactly as they want.

A polyperson MARRIAGE that is also EGALITARIAN is a freaking HASSLE.

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Free love is fine so long as you're not stupid enough to get pregnant or diseases. Or pass along either.

Uh, not IN AMERICA dude

edited 16th Jan '11 10:24:39 AM by BalloonFleet

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Presumably he was answering your mention of Islam.

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I was. Although I meant all polygamy in general. Poor people can't be polygamous, it just makes no sense, how do they feed all those people?

edited 16th Jan '11 11:26:28 AM by RawPower

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The "free" part. Freedom scares people. Makes them think of anarchy and chaos. Some people see slippery slopes leading to the collapse of society around every corner.

^^Depends on what you mean by «poor». Historically, peasant farmers could support a dozen kids at least. Though lack of hygiene and medicine -> child mortality helps.

edited 16th Jan '11 11:35:44 AM by Tzetze

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That concept sounds deeply unconstitutional.

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Can anybody find me a verse in Scripture where polygamy is condemned or implied to be condemned? And do not show me the verse about bishops having only one wife.

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Evidently it was mostly Augustine.

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What scares me about free love is that in many a Free-Love Future, a variety of factors (lack of social importance put on sex, a feeling that everyone deserves sex with everyone else, or just blatant mind control or social engineering), rape is common and uncontroversial.

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Sex != Love Also, love is never free.

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Come on, you know full well that the term "free love" is almost universally used to mean free sex-and in many a "Free-Love Future", actual love is removed from the equation altogether.

I'm feeling strangely happy now, contented and serene. Oh don't you see, finally I'll be, somewhere that's green...

One could discuss how evil non-violent rape is (yes, you can rape someone without physically hurting them). Some data would point that it depends on many factors, but mostly the victim and how they are mentally prepared to handle it. Some will find it an annoying inconvenience, others will be traumatized for life.

edited 16th Jan '11 12:44:32 PM by RawPower

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