Two Documents Detailing the Oneida Community’s Practice of Complex Marriage

La Moy, William T.

doi:10.1162/TNEQ_a_00158

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March 01 2012

Two Documents Detailing the Oneida Community’s Practice of Complex Marriage

William T. La Moy

William T. La Moy is Curator of Rare Books and Printed Materials at the Special Collections Research Center at Syracuse University Library; prior to his current position, he served as the James Duncan Phillips Librarian and Director of Publications at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. As of July 2011, he became the editor of Printing History, the semiannual journal published by the American Printing History Association.

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William T. La Moy

William T. La Moy is Curator of Rare Books and Printed Materials at the Special Collections Research Center at Syracuse University Library; prior to his current position, he served as the James Duncan Phillips Librarian and Director of Publications at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. As of July 2011, he became the editor of Printing History, the semiannual journal published by the American Printing History Association.

Online ISSN: 1937-2213

Print ISSN: 0028-4866

2012

The New England Quarterly (2012) 85 (1): 119–137.

https://doi.org/10.1162/TNEQ_a_00158

Abstract

In 1915, Dr. George E. Cragin delivered a candid (and heretofore unpublished) lecture to the Oneida Medical Club on male continence, or coitus reservatus, a practice supporting the Oneida Community’s concept of complex marriage, or free love. A portion of a published article to which Cragin alludes, containing an account by one disaffected woman member, is offered in counterpoint.

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