free love
(noun)
The practice of sexual intercourse without the restraints of marriage or commitment.
Examples of free love in the following topics:
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The Sexual Revolution
- Similarly, during this time, a culture of "free love" emerged.
- Beginning in San Francisco in the mid-1960s, this culture of "free love" was propagated by thousands of hippies who preached the power of love and the beauty of sex.
- Hippies embraced the old slogan of free love from the radical social reformers of other eras.
- For a heterosexual couple using the Pill, intercourse became purely an expression of love, a means of physical pleasure, or both—but it no longer had to be a means of reproduction.
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Youth Culture and Delinquency
- Youth culture during the 1960s counterculture was characterized by the Summer of Love and the casual use of LSD and other psychedelic drugs.
- The Summer of Love became a defining moment in the 1960s as the hippie counterculture movement came into public awareness.
- San Francisco was the center of the hippie revolution; during the Summer of Love, it became a melting pot of music, psychedelic drugs, sexual freedom, creative expression, new forms of dress, and politics.
- These lifestyles included communal living, the free and communal sharing of resources (often among total strangers), and the idea of free love.
- When people returned home from the Summer of Love, these styles and behaviors spread quickly from San Francisco and Berkeley to many U.S., Canadian, and even European cities.
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Romantic Love
- In the context of romantic love relationships, romance usually implies an expression of one's strong romantic love, or one's deep and strong emotional desires to connect with another person intimately.
- Within an established relationship, romantic love can be defined as a freeing or optimizing of intimacy in a particularly luxurious manner, or perhaps in greater spirituality, irony, or peril to the relationship.
- The conception of romantic love was popularized in Western culture by the concept of courtly love.
- Romantic love is contrasted with platonic love which in all usages precludes sexual relations, yet only in the modern usage does it take on a fully asexual sense, rather than the classical sense in which sexual drives are sublimated.
- The conception of romantic love was popularized in Western culture by the concept of courtly love.
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The paradox of pay
- There are professionals and there are amateurs, the former get paid, while the amateurs do it for the love of it.
- I love to tease business students about the matter of pay and the power of money.
- I ask, "Considering the ‘oldest profession' what had you rather be known for: doing it for money, or doing it for love?
- In a real sense, professionals indeed do it for love.
- I am glad I am paid for my work, but truth be known I would do it for free.
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Attraction: Loving
- Passionate love is an emotional love that is mostly expressed in a physical manner; it is a love that is shared between people who are intensely enamored with each other.
- Companionate love, on the other hand, is best defined as passionate love that has settled to a warm enduring love between partners in a relationship; in Sternberg's terms, it is comprised of intimacy and commitment.
- Romantic love derives from a combination of the intimate and passionate components of love.
- Love assumes many forms, and time and culture both have an effect on the love formed in a relationship.
- Culture plays a strong role in love and relationships.
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Sampling
- Paint chips are samples of paint colors that are sometimes offered as free samples.
- In less than a month, 400,000 copies were downloaded for free and even though the downloads were free, people bought the hardcover.
- The purpose of a free sample is to acquaint the consumer with a new product.
- Paint chips are samples of paint colors that are sometimes offered as free samples.
- Find ways to drive new users to your company: Simply giving samples to people who already love your brand or your product is like preaching to the choir.
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Coupons
- The company gave soda fountains free syrup to cover the costs of the free drinks.
- It is estimated that between 1894 and 1913 one in nine Americans had received a free Coca-Cola, altogether totaling 8,500,000 free drinks.
- Believed to be the first coupon ever, this ticket for a free glass of Coca-Cola was first distributed in 1888 to help promote the drink.
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Slave Families
- A black man, they reasoned, who loved his wife and his children was less likely to be rebellious or to run away than would a 'single' slave".
- “While the form of family life in the quarters differed radically from that among free Negroes and whites, this does not mean it failed to perform many of the traditional functions of the family—the rearing of children being one of the most important of these functions.
- Blassingame concludes, "In [the slave father's] family, the slave not only learned how to avoid the blows of the master, but also drew on the love and sympathy of its members to raise his spirits.
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Rogers' Humanistic Theory of Personality
- They emphasized free will and self-determination, with each individual desiring to become the best person they can become.
- Through person-centered counseling and scientific therapy research, Rogers formed his theory of personality development, which highlighted free will and the great reservoir of human potential for goodness.
- In the development of the self-concept, Rogers elevated the importance of unconditional positive regard, or unconditional love.
- When people are raised in an environment of conditional positive regard, in which worth and love are only given under certain conditions, they must match or achieve those conditions in order to receive the love or positive regard they yearn for.
- A rich full life–they will experience joy and pain, love and heartbreak, fear and courage more intensely.