Quote of the Day: Brigitte Boisselier on Love

Notice she says “freedom of love,” not “liberty in romance” or “permission to date.” “Freedom” is the loaded word: it implies a right you already possess, not a privilege granted by custom, family, or law. And “love,” not “sex” or “desire,” widens the frame from appetite to attachment, care, loyalty, tenderness. That’s the runway for Brigitte Boisselier’s provocation: “Freedom of love is freedom to say yes to many lovers.”

The sharpest blade here is “yes.” Yes is not drift; it’s agency. It insists that intimacy should be chosen, consciously, repeatedly, rather than inherited as a script. That matters because many of us confuse tradition with truth: we treat one relationship model as the default, then call deviation “failure.” Boisselier flips the assumption. What if the baseline is self-authorship, and the question is simply what structure best fits your values?

“Many lovers” isn’t an argument for compulsive accumulation; it’s an argument against scarcity thinking. Love, she suggests, is not a ration to be protected by ownership. But the line isn’t permissive so much as demanding: more bonds mean more responsibility. Ethical nonmonogamy, like monogamy, only works when consent is explicit, boundaries are honored, and care is distributed without duplicity. The freedom to say yes is meaningless without the parallel freedom to say no, and the emotional literacy to hear it.

Brigitte Boisselier, a scientist and prominent Raelian figure, has spent decades in public controversy, from Clonaid’s cloning claims to activism around bodily autonomy, placing her at the intersection of taboo, choice, and the politics of permission.

No matter what your relationship style is, September’s slow turn toward fall is a useful audit: where are you consenting out of fear, and where are you choosing out of integrity? Start there, and let freedom become less of a slogan and more of a practice, one that makes love braver, clearer, and kinder.