An Ordered Love by Louis J. Kern

Author:Louis J. Kern [Kern, Louis J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, United States, 19th Century, Social Science, Sociology of Religion
ISBN: 9781469620428
Google: u2X0AwAAQBAJ
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2014-07-01T04:15:45+00:00

Chapter 12: “A Tide of Living, Healthful Love”: Sexual Practices at the Oneida Community

Men feel a pleasure in remaining at table although they can no longer eat. Is it love? Is it simply recollection? Is it friendship? Is it something compounded of all these?

—Voltaire, “Love,” Philosophical Dictionary

How manye myghte she have in mariage?

Yet herede I nevere tellen in myn age

Upon this nombre diffinicioun.

Men may devyne and glosen, up and down,

But wel I woot, expres, withoute lye,

God bad us for to wexe and multiplye;

That gentil text kan I wel understonde.

Eek wel I woot, he seyde myn housbonde

Sholde lete fader and mooder, and take to me.

But of no nombre mencion made he,

Of bigamye or of octogamye;

Why sholde men thanne speke of it vileynye?

—Chaucer, “Wife of Bath’s Prologue,” Canterbury Tales

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