DYK in 1871 Ezra & Angela Heywood put out a #FreeLove newspaper for more than 20 years? “The Word” tried to stop #kink, support #NaughtyWords & #SexEd for kids, & classified marriage as #SexWork. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #censorship

Freunde der Nacht, habt eine schöne Nacht. Schlaft gut. Passt auf Euch auf. Danke dass Ihr hier seid.

#love #darknoir #wpics #wsocialpics #art #hippie #freedom #Peace #freelove #winterfeder

One of the benefits they claimed was that children born in #FreeLove would be less likely to succumb to “diseases” such as #SoloSex. They both later became Catholic & recanted their Free-Love views. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #bators #HistSex #RealMenMasturbate

They claimed marriage & uncontrolled sex were both failures & insisted on a woman’s right to decide if & when to have a child & that #FreeLove led to better breeding than marriage or other kinds of loveless sex.

DYK some 19thC advocates of #FreeLove opposed #SoloSex? Mary Gove Nichols (d.1884) wrote tracts against it. W/husband Thomas Low Nichols (d.1901) she put out “Marriage: Its History, Character & Results” in 1854 proclaiming the beauty of Free Love.

DYK Thomas Morton set up a #FreeLove trading post in 1625 in Puritan Massachusetts? Women & men at Merry Mount were in constant drunken revelry. They danced around an 80-foot maypole topped with stag antlers. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com