libertines

The exhibitionist behaviour has been blamed on the "libertines"- a group of swingers who have descended on the town in recent years.

Nudists and swingers fighting it out in France's 'Naked City'' - World News, 47825 2010

And some arose of the synagogue called libertines, of a religion so named of them that were the sons of them that had been in bondage and were made free, and thus they that first repugned against the faith were of a bond and thrall lineage, and also they of Cyrenia and Alexandria, and of them that were of

The Golden Legend, vol. 2 1230-1298 1900

Although we do not possess titled libertines at elegant leisure here, there can be no manner of doubt that the procuress plies her vocation among us, and thrives on a liberally perennial patronage.

Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. Abraham H. Hummel 1887

I get up every morning and see the whole creation groaning and travailing in pain, as St. Paul says, and yet there am I, trafficking in glittering splendours with wealthy women and titled libertines, and pandering to the meanest vanities -- I, who have health and strength enough for anything.

The Return of the Native 1878

Hence, men who came to be known as "libertines," though they were both patriotic and moral and only craved freedom, rose and said: "This is an intolerable tyranny; we will not allow any man to be lord over our consciences."

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

We have highlighted the linkages between sexual norms and religious affiliations, deriving from the cultural revolution of the Sixties and its complicated aftermath in which libertines and prudes seem to have provoked an increasing polarization along the religious spectrum.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

Maybe libertarians should just ditch the big tent and separate into "capitalists" and "libertines".

Tyler on the Problems of Libertarians, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

I guess I'd be a capitalist in that I like liberty for consequentialist reasoning (lots of people flee their crappy countries for prosperity in the U. S, few go in the other direction) and have some distaste or even revulsion for libertines.

Tyler on the Problems of Libertarians, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

And yet these realities are dismissed, much like the evidence for evolution, as if they were some illicit product of conspiring pointy-headed libertines.

Robert Teitelman: Politics and economic truths Robert Teitelman 2010

Although the sheer insanity and destructiveness of the content should have prevented the APA from publishing the article in the first place, the sexual libertines in charge of the organization only issued a muted retractionafter the U.S.

Science 2009