From the December 19, 1896 Brooklyn Daily Eagle:

“Some crazes are social in nature, but social laws are so fixed by custom that these usually only have a local run. When I was a lad in New York City, setting type, I fell in with a smart newspaperman who had set up a free love institution on the co-operative plan. A number of married couples went to live in the establishment, and they all traded wives and husbands. The notable fact about the affair was its outcome. After the trading had gone on for a year or two nearly all the original couples returned to their old relationships and became heartily ashamed of their departure from the orthodox marriage state.”