Free love based upon =only-love=, the watchword of the future -- Bohemian love -- Does not correspond to the ideal of free love -- Importance of social and economic factors in the sexual relationships of the present day -- Efforts for sexual reform -- The literature of free love -- Charles Albert’s communistic foundation of free love -- Liberation of love from the dominion of the state and of capital -- Ladislaus Gumplowicz -- Bebel’s “Die Frau und der Sozialismus” (“Woman and Socialism”) -- The psychologico-individual foundation of free love -- Eugen Dühring -- Edward Carpenter’s “Love’s Coming of Age” -- His ideas regarding self-control and spiritual procreation -- Ellen Key’s work, “Ueber Liebe und Ehe” (“Love and Marriage”) -- Detailed analysis of this work -- Her critique of nominal “monogamy” -- Her idea of “spiritualized sensuality” -- “Erotic monism” -- The unity of marriage and love -- Sexual dualism owing to coercive marriage and prostitution -- General diffusion of erotic scepticism -- Recognition of love as the spiritual force of life -- Importance of relative asceticism -- Love’s choice -- Medical certificates of fitness for marriage -- Immoral love -- The right to motherhood -- Preliminary conditions -- Necessity for free divorce -- Unfortunate marriages -- Importance of divorce to children -- New programme of the rights of children -- Ellen Key’s new marriage law -- Endowment of motherhood -- Authorities for the protection of children -- Division of the property of husband and wife -- Discontinuance of the coercion to live together -- Secret marriages -- Conditions under which marriage is to be contracted -- Divorce -- Council of Divorce -- Jury for the care of children -- Sexual responsibility -- “Marriages of conscience” -- Examples from Sweden -- Public notification of “free” unions -- Legal recognition of “free” unions in Sweden -- Increase in the number of “marriage protestants” -- Importance of free love to the vital advance of humanity -- General characterization of Ellen Key’s book -- Its importance in connexion with sexual reform in Germany -- Formation of “The Association for the Protection of Mothers” -- Directors and committee of this society -- Preliminary appeal and programme of the association -- The periodical _Mutterschutz_ -- The formation of local groups -- The “Umwertungs-Gesellschaft” (Revaluation Society) of the United States -- Its characterization of modern marriage -- The Berlin “Union for Sexual Reform” -- Helene Stöcker’s “Love and Woman” -- Conception of the sexual problem in the sense of Nietzsche -- No revolution, but evolution and reform -- Deepening of woman’s soul by means of the older love -- The affirmation of life of the new love -- The economic and social grounds for the necessity of social reform -- Friedrich Naumann, Lily Braun, and others, on this subject -- Increase