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Advertise Learn more about working with Thought Catalog. This was true in America as well up until the 20th century with some exceptions that did emphasize sex. Leave it to Americans to make it dirty. Oh, and they also had sex with children. Despite their highly unorthodox views at the time, many in the anarchist and feminist community at large still viewed the Greenwich Village members as largely missing the point of anarchist social revolution for the working majority.

Notably, the women of the group were often seen as the more sexually aggressive. God, what a lover you would be. However as feminists and anarchists they were a failure. Kerista religion was founded in the late 1950s in NYC and codified in the 1970s in San Francisco on the principles of monetary and familial equality. Group marriage and shared parenting were the mainstays of Kerista. They also had a fixed sleep schedule where every member of this fidelity group would rotate beds every day. If you broke the rules then you had to all come together and have a big discussion of what rules had been broken and by whom.

Sounds super chill and not at all more stressful than just working things out with a significant other. However, none of these multiple marriages lasted more than ten years. By the 1980s, even Stephen Gaskin was in a monogamous marriage. Interestingly, members of The Farm came to the decision that monogamous marriage was better for community than was multiple marriage. Unlike many others, this group didn’t fall apart and continues to exist to this day with 250-300 members now living at The Farm.

They continue to do charitable work as well, having been among the first individuals to provide charitable assistance to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. What really distinguishes The Farm in comparison to other free love communities and even other communes is that it always focused on service to society and contributing positively. It wasn’t an escapist community despite being isolated. This, it seems, allowed it to change towards what suited the community best. The group’s founder, David Berg, was raised in an evangelical home and was eventually kicked out of a church for sexual misconduct.