Love

==Political views==

===Free love===
{{Main|Free love}}
The term "free love" has been used<ref>{{cite book|title=Hand-book of the Oneida Community|url=https://library.syracuse.edu/digital/collections/h/Hand-bookOfTheOneidaCommunity/|year=1867|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613152552/http://library.syr.edu/digital/collections/h/Hand-bookOfTheOneidaCommunity/ |archive-date=13 June 2010 }} Claims to have coined the term around 1850, and laments that its use was appropriated by [[socialist]]s to attack marriage, an institution that they felt protected women and children from abandonment.{{page needed|date=August 2023}}</ref> to describe a [[social movement]] that rejects [[marriage]], which is seen as a form of social bondage. The free love movement's initial goal was to separate the state from sexual matters such as marriage, [[birth control]], and [[adultery]]. It claimed that such issues were the concern of the people involved, and no one else.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = McElroy | first1 = Wendy | year = 1996 | title = The Free Love Movement and Radical Individualism | journal = Libertarian Enterprise | volume = 19 | page = 1 }}</ref>

Many people in the early 19th century believed that marriage was an important aspect of life to "fulfill earthly human happiness."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Free love - Connexipedia article |url=https://www.connexions.org/CxLibrary/Docs/CxP-Free_Love.htm |access-date=2024-01-20 |website=www.connexions.org}}</ref> Middle-class Americans wanted the home to be a place of stability in an uncertain world. This mentality created a vision of strongly defined gender roles, which provoked the advancement of the free love movement as a contrast.<ref name="Spurlock, John C 1988">{{cite book|last=Spurlock|first=John C.|title=Free Love, Marriage, and Middle-Class Radicalism in America|location=New York|publisher=New York University Press|year=1988}}</ref>

Advocates of free love had two strong beliefs: opposition to the idea of forceful sexual activity in a relationship and advocacy for a woman to use her body in any way that she pleases.<ref name="Passet, Joanne E 2003">{{cite book|last=Passet|first=Joanne E.|title=Sex Radicals and the Quest for Women's Equality|location=Chicago|publisher=University of Illinois Press|year=2003}}</ref> These are also beliefs of [[feminism]].<ref name="auto">{{Citation | title= Love's Lessons: Intimacy, Pedagogy and Political Community | first1= Timothy | last1= Laurie | first2= Hannah | last2= Stark | journal= Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities | volume= 22 | issue= 4 | pages= 69–79 | year= 2017 | url= https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0969725X.2017.1406048 | doi= 10.1080/0969725x.2017.1406048 | s2cid= 149182610 | access-date= 3 January 2018 | archive-date= 21 February 2023 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230221024035/https://www.academia.edu/35349930 | url-status= live }}</ref>