free love
noun
1
: living openly with a sexual partner without marriage
2
: sexual relations with no commitments by either partner
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Unrest over Vietnam and civil rights, free love and gay liberation erupted around the Bay Area, fueled in part by Easterners who came seeking a break from society.
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Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
The festival featured Brazilian psy trance music and focused on free love, spirit, and environmental preservation.
—Anna Gordon, Time, 9 Oct. 2023
This growth was attainable by means of regular therapy and by practicing free love and unattachment to any single other person, including one’s offspring.
—Nellie Hermann, The New Republic, 17 Aug. 2023
These views have often been dismissed as essentialist and puritanical in the face of the ‘free love’ movement that characterised the 1960s and 70s.
—Hannah Uguru, refinery29.com, 21 May 2023
As foreign tourists flock to places like Casablanca in search of drugs and free love, former revolutionaries get caught up in the pursuit of money and power.
—Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2023
The Lauries are drawn in by the charisma of Frisbee, along with thousands of other California hippies who went from seeking meaning in drugs and free love to embracing Jesus and being baptized in the Pacific Ocean.
—al, 23 Feb. 2023
Like many of the era’s youthful seekers, Kasabian drifted around the country taking drugs, living in communes and practicing free love.
—Elaine Woo Los Angeles Times (tns), al, 2 Mar. 2023
However, to a large segment of Anchorage society, these new arrivals were just filthy hippies who came north to spread communism, free love, or LSD.
—David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Jan. 2023
Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
The festival featured Brazilian psy trance music and focused on free love, spirit, and environmental preservation.
—Anna Gordon, Time, 9 Oct. 2023
This growth was attainable by means of regular therapy and by practicing free love and unattachment to any single other person, including one’s offspring.
—Nellie Hermann, The New Republic, 17 Aug. 2023
These views have often been dismissed as essentialist and puritanical in the face of the ‘free love’ movement that characterised the 1960s and 70s.
—Hannah Uguru, refinery29.com, 21 May 2023
As foreign tourists flock to places like Casablanca in search of drugs and free love, former revolutionaries get caught up in the pursuit of money and power.
—Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2023
The Lauries are drawn in by the charisma of Frisbee, along with thousands of other California hippies who went from seeking meaning in drugs and free love to embracing Jesus and being baptized in the Pacific Ocean.
—al, 23 Feb. 2023
Like many of the era’s youthful seekers, Kasabian drifted around the country taking drugs, living in communes and practicing free love.
—Elaine Woo Los Angeles Times (tns), al, 2 Mar. 2023
However, to a large segment of Anchorage society, these new arrivals were just filthy hippies who came north to spread communism, free love, or LSD.
—David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Jan. 2023
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