Free love didn’t always refer to a sexually active lifestyle…with many casual partners and little to no commitment. That’s what it meant in the 1960’s and 70’s. In the 19th century, the Free Love Movement promoted the idea of removing the state from decisions about marriage, sex and fidelity. Sounds tame now. Then, it’s advocates were called sex radicals. Tune in for all the juiciness on this episode of All the F Words when Joanne and Gabi talk about FREE LOVE.

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Emma Goldman – Free Love
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/goldman-free-love/

The Encyclopedia of the American Left. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. https://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-American-Left-Mari-Buhle/dp/0195120884

Free Love and Women’s History – Free Love in the 19th century and later
https://www.thoughtco.com/free-love-and-womens-history-3530392


Age of consent laws: The ages of consent throughout the country were apparently 10 or 12 throughout much of the 1800s; they then rose to 16 or 18 by 1920, according to Mary Odem's “Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920,” and there have been minor fluctuations since then.
https://www.ageofconsent.net/states