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Tin: club.The Club, on the other hand, is a fixed fact. It meets on Monday and 'i hui^day evenings of each week, over Taylors up[;(;i* saloon, 2vo-5--5 15roadway. This club L composed of between five and bix hundred members, with an average attendence of one hundred and fifty; though the attendance has been much larger than usual since the affair has gained some general notoriety.— There were, as we understand, sumo Uuee hundred present at the hut nice ting. At these so mi-weekly in votings, the members of the Club and the strangers whom they introduce, walk, talk, waltz, sing, ilirt, and endeavor to enjoy themselves as best they may —each selecting his or her associate according to attraction and affinities, and always with a due regard to individual Sovereignly, Occasionally, the audience is amused, entertained* or bored as the case may be—by a speech from the chief, or some other great man in the Free Love Israel, who may be impressed with the idea that he has an inmor Mint message to communicate. Although the exorcises, topics, and amusements indulged in take a wide range, the main idea which draws and holds together this motelj* paity is Free Love, or Passional Attraction, as some of them prefer to call it. lhey ro-oudiate the present system of marriage, deny the l ight uf society or ihostuto to mler-lero in any way with the subjeat and further than it may rightfully interfere with any sivil contract, and contend that marriage nay bo a limited or life purtnor.ddp, at the option of the in an and woman who are the sole and rightful judges of the time- and manner of its beginning and termination. One j{ their favorite dogmas 5s that u woman has the richt to choose the father of her ownj males. AI piesuul ihu Club numbers nearly i do. Itwebc hundred members. The obligation!! which vv::s administered to members hi their j initiation I believe is now no longer used, the j km■ ■ ■ ---- ^ s fdm pie Sr. i rod i:r;i«-n of a person by a member j ini aii being regardct! as aidficieut.{ The only feature which strikes you as va-! ej j rying in any way from the ordinary course art •ofconduct in parties or bulls is that Free- be | Lovers of the two sexes—ail who are nut Mj ! afraid to do so—often promenade the room s am I with their anus entwined affeclionately to ialmut one another’s waists.lt;lntmVOhl£=ecfutlii:tindr.til;anotij j:h vl;\v.A Spiritualist gives the following sketch of the practical wordings of the Free-Lovers:For a vuar or two past, a mar. who preaches the “'ticedwn of the affections.” which means a total abolition ami demolition of marriage* and the implicit following of every freak of fancy or libidinous curiosity in the ’ sexual relations, has been endeaving to get up a society In Which to reduce his disgust- ; ing theory to practice. He, of course. rG*j!n, quired for this purpose a set of women who | .J \ should bo reckless of reputation (lie has \ since avowed this openly) and who were re-i lined and attractive. and yet had nut sold I their virtue. He accordingly embraced j Spiritualism, and began to throw around . Kn ; those of our mediums with whom hotho’t;^ i he might succeed, those influences which he ! ^ j supposed would be most, grateful to them. | ^ ' Being possed of a very insinuating manner, lie. after securing their friendship, gradually be'um tobring before them in the mostplausi-bi ° form the idea that a woman should not be forever tied to a man. whom she might .and often did cease to love.'’ _ From this he t went on to inculcate the entire abolition ofanWfIK*rotncJl\111It.
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Kenosha Democrat
Kenosha, Wisconsin, US
Fri, Nov 02, 1855
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