Dear of troy: Your evaluation of "free love" was rather narrow. For a more complete description see the URL:

http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/1998/03/12feature.html

My favorite anecdote about free love is the legend that Isadora Duncan suggested to George Bernard Shaw that they have a love child. "Just think it might have your brains and my beauty!" GBS is alleged to have declined on the grounds that it might happen the other way around.