10 janv. 2018

It was sex all the time at this 1800s commune, with anyone you wanted and none of the guilt


Life at the Oneida Colony was kind of a like a key party, but no one had cars and everyone was doin’ it for Jesus

Do angels have sex? John Humphrey Noyes thought so. Related question: If they do the nasty in heaven, is it really so nasty after all? Noyes reasoned not. These were the basic philosophies that animated the creation of Noyes’s Oneida Community, a 19th century colony of so-called Bible Communists who believed that free love and ecstatic sex would bring them closer to God.

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