I was wondering if any of you could list superior literary works dealing with the promotion/advantages or the pitfalls of "free love" and "open relationships".
Off the top of my head I would list some of the non-science-fiction novels of H.G. Wells like Ann Veronica. I could recall more but this morning my brain is smashed with no caffeine on hand. Gotta go and make some coffee or drink a soda pop.
Also, Percy Shelly's Epipsychidion which, among other lines, has the following stanzas"
I never was attached to that great sect,
Whose doctrine is, that each one should select
Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend,
And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend
To cold oblivion, though it is in the code
Of modern morals, and the beaten road
Which those poor slaves with weary footsteps tread,
Who travel to their home among the dead
By the broad highway of the world, and so
With one chained friend, perhaps a jealous foe,
The dreariest and the longest journey go.
True Love in this differs from gold and clay,
That to divide is not to take away.
Love is like understanding, that grows bright,
Gazing on many truths; ’tis like thy light,
Imagination! which from earth and sky,
And from the depths of human phantasy,
As from a thousand prisms and mirrors, fills
The Universe with glorious beams, and kills
Error, the worm, with many a sun-like arrow
Of its reverberated lightning. Narrow
The heart that loves, the brain that contemplates,
The life that wears, the spirit that creates
One object, and one form, and builds thereby
A sepulchre for its eternity.
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