Meaning of free-lover | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Examples

“The list is a long and sobering one and includes anyone whose presence or beliefs ran contrary to the established order⟳—labor leaders, Communists, free-thinkers, free-lovers, Socialists, Okies, you name⟳ it.”

“A man enters a drugstore seeking a remedy for a persistent erection. “What can you give⟳ me for it?” he asks the woman behind the counter, with some embarrassment. “My sister and I will give⟳ you the store and two hundred dollars,” she says, “but that’s our best offer⟳.” […] According to historian Mari Jo Buhle in Feminism and its Discontents, such jokes were among the popular responses to the sexual emancipation of women at the turn⟳ of the century, when [Sigmund] Freud’s acknowledgement of female sexual passion reinforced the utopian vision of feminist free-lovers.”

“Twenty-first-century American conservatives are seldom confused with 19th-century enthusiasts of “free love⟳.” But when the U.S. Supreme Court recently heard arguments about same-sex marriage, conservative opponents of such marriages bemoaned a spreading tendency that the old free-lovers and some of their radical contemporaries warned about more than 150 years ago.”

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