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** Likewise in [[John Varley]]'s ''Eight Worlds'' stories, though a surprising number still do adhere to some forms of traditional sexual mores as they struggle to reconcile 300 years of technology with <s>thousands</s> millions of years of evolution.

* ''[[The Amtrak Wars]]'' by Patrick Tilley. Sex is no big deal, and "love" is unheard of; the word doesn't even exist in their society.

* In the One State, the setting of Yevgeny Zamyatin's novel ''We''--which inspired both ''Brave New World'' and ''1984''-- it's the law that "every number has a right to every other number, as to a sexual commodity." "Number," in the usage of the One State, replaces both "person" and "citizen," by the way.

* In the second part (of three) of [[Arthur C. Clarke]]'s [[Childhoods End]] the perfection of contraception, STI treatment and paternity-tracking technology are all that are necessary to cause civilization to become a global ''Free Love Society'' inside a single generation. Clarke notes that the [[Benevolent Alien Invasion|Overlords]] didn't have anything directly to do with these developments.