Oneida Community

-- A peculiar method known as "male continence" is practiced by the members of the Oneida Community, which is thus described by Mr. Noyes, the founder of the society --

Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life. 1877

The Oneida Community was a self-supporting enterprise.

God is for Suckers! KA 2010

From the wikipedia entry for the Oneida Community 1848-1881, Oneida, New York:

"In our culture, women have been conditioned to have closed sexuality and open feelings, and men to have open sexuality and closed feelings." Ann Althouse 2009

The book that has me really thinking this week is Women, Family, and Utopia: Communal Experiments of the Shakers, the Oneida Community, and the Mormons by Lawrence Foster.

We all have a little prophet inside. | Mind on Fire 2006

This is the fellow who grew up in western New York not far from that 'burnt-over ground' on which so many offshoots of the Puritan decadence flourished weedily in the nineteenth century — Mormons, Spiritualists, Shakers, and the Perfectionists of the Oneida Community.

So Big Towers, Robert 1982

Page 461, Volume 4 of most nineteenth-century American religious utopian communities such as the Rappites, the Inspirationists, and the Oneida Community.

UTOPIA ROGER L. EMERSON 1968

This is a No. 4 steel deer trap manufactured by the Oneida Community in the late 19th century.

Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17 John T. Schlebecker

The Oneida Community, a religious group comprising about 130 men and

Woman and the New Race Margaret Sanger 1924

The Oneida Community, a religious group comprising about 130 men and 150 women, which occupied a part of an old Indian reservation in the state of New York, were the chief exponents of “male continence.

Continence—Is It Practicable or Desirable 1920

The Oneida Community clung to the same thought, and to obliterate selfishness held women in common, tracing pedigree, after the manner of ancient Sparta, through the female line, because there was no other way.

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916