[laughter] while we're on the subject, tell me about the second chapter in the book by lisa lyons andouisa sette, the unitary household. >> louisa's an italian professor, and she, like a number of other young italian radicals of the 1970s, they took on american studies. it was a great subject for them because america was the land where utopianism and not hard-line marxism had been a major form of political expression. so for this writer and lisa lyons, an experienced illustrator, the idea was recapturing those utopian colonies not only outside the big cities in the 1840 and 1850s, but actually those that were within new york and spoke very freely about the subject called free love. it was a subject of much discussion and a sort of love without marriage that was at the same time a fight against the growth of the prostitution trade. rich men can always find young women. and that's not what we call free love. >> well, what was the unitary household? >> well, several really sexual utopians in the 1840s and 1850s got this idea that if they could set up what appears to us to be a cooperativ

[laughter] while we're on the subject, tell me about the second chapter in the book by lisa lyons and sette, the unitary household. >> louisa's an italian professor, and she, like a number of other young italian radicals of the 1970s, they took on american studies. it was a great subject for them because america was the land where utopianism and not hard-line marxism had been a major form of political expression. so for this writer and lisa lyons, an experienced illustrator, the idea was recapturing those utopian colonies not only outside the big cities in the 1840 and 1850s, but actually those that were within new york and spoke very freely about the subject called free love. it was a subject of much discussion and a sort of love without marriage that was at the same time a fight against the growth of the prostitution trade. rich men can always find young women. and that's not what we call free love. >> well, what was the unitary household? >> well, several really sexual utopians in the 1840s and 1850s got this idea that if they could set up what appears to us to be a cooperative; a