CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA
Clement of Alexandria (c. 150-215 AD), Stromateis, Book 3, Chapter 8.1-2; 10.1; 109.1-2 (c. 190-203 AD)
http://www.godswordtowomen.org/studies/articles/kroeger.htm (God’s Word to Women), ANCIENT HERESIES AND A STRANGE GREEK VERB (Authentien):
Licentious doctrines continued to vex the church for several centuries, to the dismay of the church fathers. Clement of Alexandria (c. 150-215 AD) wrote a detailed refutation of the various groups who endorsed fornication as accepted Christian behavior. He complained of those who had turned love-feasts into sex orgies, of those who taught women to "give to every man that asketh of thee," and of those who found in physical intercourse a "mystical communion." He branded one such lewd group authentai (the plural of authentes).
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-02/anf02-62.htm, Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol II, “Elucidations | II” (Clement of Alexandria):
See p. 383, cap. ii. note 1.
The early disappearance of the Christian agapae may probably be attributed to the terrible abuse of the word here referred to, by the licentious Carpocratians. The genuine agapae were of apostolic origin (2 Peter 2:13; Jude 12), but were often abused by hypocrites, even under the apostolic eye (1 Corinthians 11:21 ). In the Gallican Church, a survival or relic of these feasts of charity is seen in the pain be (ni; and, in the Greek churches. in the a0nti/dwron or eulogiae distributed to non-communicants at the close of the Eucharist, from the loaf out of which the bread of oblation is supposed to have been cut.
http://books.google.com/books?id=sf5DeBh6Gz0C&pg=PP1&dq=%22Clement+of+Alexandria%22+By+Eric+Francis+Osborn&sig=ZxGTnt6WDPAzJRoPmD6pMSirZmc#PPA220,M1, Clement of Alexandria – Google Books Result, by Eric Francis Osborn, 2005, p. 220, “Church and heresy | Heresy and morals”:
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http://www.ccg.org/english/s/b3.html, Clement of Alexandria: Stromateis - Book 3, “Views of Carpocrates and Epiphanes on Marriage”:
8(1) "So God created everything for humanity in common. He brings the female to the male in common, 29 and joined all animals together in a similar way. In this he showed that righteousness is a combination of community and equity. (2) But those who have been born in this way have denied the commonality that unites births, and say, 30 ‘A man 3l should marry a single wife and stick to her.’ Everyone can share her as the rest of the animals show."
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10(1) These are the doctrines of our noble Carpocratians. They say that these people and some other zealots for the same vicious practices gather for dinner (I could never call their congregation a Christian love-feast), men and women together, and after they have stuffed themselves ("The Cyprian goddess [Aphrodite] is there when you are full," they say. 38), they knock over the lamps, put out the light that would expose their fornicating righteousness," and couple as they will with any woman they fancy. 39 So in this love-feast they practice commonality. Then by daylight they demand any woman they want in obedience
“Extremes of Opinion Regarding Marriage Should Be Avoided”:
109(1) "So to the pure, everything is pure," he says. "To the tainted minds of the faithless, nothing is pure; they are tainted in reason and conscience." 456 (2) As to illegitimate pleasure he says, "Make no mistake. The sexually immoral, worshipper of idols, adulterers, passive perverts, homosexuals, those who pursue profit, robbers, drunkards, people who use abusive language, and swindlers will not inherit the kingdom of God." We used to be such, but "have passed through the purifying waters." 457 But they purify themselves for this licentiousness. Their baptism is out of responsible self-control into sexual immorality. Their philosophy is the gratification of their pleasures and passions. They teach a change from self-discipline to indiscipline. The hope they offer is the titillation of their genitals. 458 They make themselves excluded from the kingdom of God instead of enrolled disciples. 459 Under the name of what they falsely call knowledge 460
Clement of Alexandria accounts lots of free sex to many other Christian sects: too many to cite.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Eucharist, “History of the Eucharist”:
Referring to Clement of Alexandria, Stromata III,2, Philip Schaff commented: "The early disappearance of the Christian agapæ may probably be attributed to the terrible abuse of the word here referred to, by the licentious Carpocratians.