Choice Chesterton at You

"Only by the hypocritical ignoring of a huge fact can anyone contrive to talk of "free love"; as if love were an episode like lighting a cigarette, or whistling a tune. Suppose whenever a man lit a cigarette, a towering genie arose from the rings of smoke and followed him everywhere as a huge slave. Suppose whenever a man whistled a tune he 'drew an angel down' and had to walk about forever with a seraph on a string. These catastrophic images are but faint parallels to the earthquake consequences that Nature has attached to sex; and it is perfectly plain at the beginning that a [person] cannot be a free lover; he is either a traitor or a tied [human]. The second element that creates the family is that its consequences, though colossal, are gradual; the cigarette produces a baby giant, the song only an infant seraph....

It may be said that this institution of the home is the one anarchist institution. That is to say, it is older than law, and stands outside the State."

-Gilbert Keith Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World, 'The Free Family'