FORNICATION – “FREE LOVE”
The true, full, total opposite of prostitution and marriage (sex for money / conditions)
http://www.answers.com/free%20love, “free love”:
The belief in or practice of sexual relations without marriage and without formal obligations.
http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Free_love, “Free love”:
Free love
Free love is an ideology that love and sexual activities should be shared amongst many, and not be confined to long term relationships. The term is generally not applied to polygamous cultures, such as 19th century Mormons and Islamic cultures, because these still limit sexual activity to within a formalised long-term relationship.
The idea has appeared various times in history such as among the Cathars[Christian sect] of Medieval France [and long before], the Saint-Simonians in the early 1800s, the Oneida Society in nineteenth century America (whose founder, John Humphrey Noyes, coined the term 'free love', although he preferred to use the term 'complex marriage'), the Greenwich Village movements of the early 1900s, and among hippies in the 1960s and 1970s.
The movements which support free love tend to be utopian collectivist ones which see the traditional institutions of marriage and family as oppressive. Partly because of these anti-institutional views, free love cultures and those that support traditional, formalised forms of polygamy tend to be quite hostile to each other.
As of the 1980s, concerns over AIDS and other sexual transmitted diseases has greatly diminished the popularity of the free love ideology.
A more general term is sexual freedom, as opposed to sexual oppression.
Now, which sounds more correct, conditional love or free love?:
John 13:34-35:
34"A new commandment I give to you, that you conditionally love one another; as I have conditionally loved you, that you also conditionally love one another. 35By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have conditional love for one another."
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John 13:34-35:
34"A new commandment I give to you, that you freely love one another; as I have freely loved you, that you also freely love one another. 35By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have free love for one another."
Since marriage was the standard of that day, I don’t think anyone would have noticed any difference if they practiced marriage / conditional love; but, if they practiced “free love” then people would have noticed a difference.
What is the best way to fight “prostitution”?:
There’s no way “marriage” can stop prostitution: it can only create more of a need for it. The correct answer is “B. With free sex”: If men can get it “free” then a prostitute won’t have any clients. Why would any guy want to pay for it when he could get it free? See, I’ve figured out, it one quick instant, something that the Church claims it hasn’t figured out for 2000 years. So, does that make me smarter than everyone else, or does that just make me just a whole lot more honest than everyone else? It’s probably the unique combination of both.
The church says “prostitution” is wrong because it’s sex out of marriage. But I say it’s wrong because it’s selling something that should be free. Therefore, many people equate prostitution with free love. But that is not a logical correlation: prostitution requires money for sex, therefore it isn’t “free.” Both terms do refer to sex. That is the only correlation. Today’s church mandates marriage for sex, which doesn’t make sex “free” either. Therefore, “marriage for sex” and “money for sex” is what rationally “equates.” Both are “requirements” for sex. Neither scenario is “free” sex. It’s like if I owned a hardware store, and exchanged a hammer for money, or had a young lad sweep my floors in exchange for a hammer, both scenarios indicate that the hammer is not being given away free. If I just gave a hammer to someone who just asked for it, then that would equate to a totally different kind of category. In all three scenarios each person needed a hammer. The two scenarios that more equate are the ones where the hammer was not given away free.
Since sex is a strong component in “love” (between adults), what doesn’t “fit” is Jesus wanting us to have unconditional love, but not unconditional sex. Today’s churches definitely advocate “conditional” sex only: marriage. And the ones letting marriage slide still suggest conditions for and before sex. But, the Bible denounces any conditions for sex, via the true Greek definition / essence of fornication. And, conditional sex is both prostitution and marriage.