I have always been infatuated with the institutions of marriage and divorce, so reading about "Free Love" in the Victorian Age from "Voices of Revolution" was especially interesting to me. "Free lovers" believed that women should not be required to be at their husbands' feet — a concept that is instilled in my mind today. They emphasized that women should be with men because of a mutual interest, not because having a husband is an obligation.
Free lovers also denounced marriage, which I'm guilty of doing every now and then as well, though I go back and forth with it. Free lovers went so far as to comparing women's sexual relations with men to pages of Lucifer.
I am all about empowering women, and I believe that the extents that free lovers went to were well worth it. Their publications were revolutionary and very extreme, considering the time period. They make me proud to be a woman, and they inspire me to carry on the legacy by presenting ignored disadvantages of women to the public.
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