free love en · NOUN
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(uncountable) The practice of sexual intercourse without the restraints of marriage or commitment.
Sometimes prudish and sometimes outrageous, Marilyn rationalized her behavior through free love ideas.
2012, Lois Banner, Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox, page 262:The deceased, Philip Boyes, was, as you have heard, a writer. He was thirty-six years old, and he had published five novels and a large number of essays and articles. All these literary works were of what is sometimes called an ‘advanced’ type. They preached doctrines which may seem to some of us immoral or seditious, such as atheism, and anarchy, and what is known as free love. His private life appears to have been conducted, for some time at least, in accordance with these doctrines.
1930, Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison:Joseph’s looks and handsome figure had attracted her attention. Every morning she would beckon: “Come and lie with me, love.” Joseph wanted to resist her til one day she proved too eager. Joseph cried in vain: “Please stop! I don’t believe in free love!”
1974, “Potiphar”, in Tim Rice (lyrics), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat:
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cmn 自由性愛 /自由性爱 (practice of sexual intercourse without the restraints of marriage or commitment) · de freie Liebe (practice of sexual intercourse without the restraints of marriage or commitment) · pl wolna miłość (practice of sexual intercourse without the restraints of marriage or commitment) · fi vapaa rakkaus (practice of sexual intercourse without the restraints of marriage or commitment)