📚 Free Love

Books with free love on their catalogue record, first published between 1856 and 2016, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject free love in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 197 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Spiritual wives	William Hepworth Dixon	1868	12
	Thy neighbor's wife	Gay Talese	1980	9
	Cupid's yokes, or, The binding forces of conjugal life	Ezra H. Heywood	1876	7
	De amore libri tres	Andreas Capellanus	1930	7
	The Ethical Slut	Dossie Easton	1997	7
	Future Sex: A New Kind of Free Love	Emily Witt	2016	7
	Marriage And Love	Emma Goldman	1911	6
	Group marriage	Larry L. Constantine	1973	6
	Love, Anarchy, and Emma Goldman	Candace Falk	1984	6
	The Lesbian polyamory reader	Judith P. Stelboum	1999	6
	State of 'the Union'	Sandra Schroer	2009	6
	Free love and its votaries	John B. Ellis	1870	5
	Temple of love	Donald McCormick	1962	5
	Free love; or, A philosophical demonstration of the non-exclusive nature of connubial love, also, a review of the exclusive feature of the Fowlers, Adin Ballou, H.C. Wright, and An	Austin Kent	1857	4
	Social freedom	Hulda L. Potter-Loomis	1890	4
	Sex radicalism	Dora Forster	1905	4
	Mrs. Satan	Johanna Johnston	1967	4
	The ethics of sexual equality	Tennessee C. Claflin	1873	3
	Ruled by the tomb	Orford Northcote	1898	3
	Institutional marriage	Moses Harman	1901	3
	Freedom in marriage	Elizabeth Fields	1902	3
	Die Freiheit der Liebe in der kommunistischen Gesellschaft	Heinrich Vogeler	1930	3
	The sex radicals	Hal D. Sears	1977	3
	Desire and duty at Oneida	Tirzah Miller Herrick	2000	3
	A voice from the prison	James Arrington Clay	1856	2
	"And the truth shall make you free."	Victoria C. Woodhull	1871	2
	The law of marriage, and other essays on the social problem	C. L. James	1871	2
	Fables and essay	Bryan, John.	1895	2
	Variety vs. monogamy	Edwin C. Walker	1897	2
	Lifslinjer	Ellen Key	1903	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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