AS+oneida+AS

__Journal Entry of Theodore Noyes, circa 1869__

Over the years, I have realized our community is coming to an end. The youth of our community do not want to practice these sexual rituals anymore. My father believes that we should have no special relationships with any person. He had every member have their own room just to prevent this. He says that sex is not just physical, it is spiritual. According to my father, he says that every man is married to every woman. The only belief that I share with my father is that men and woman are equal. Other than that, I totally disagree with him. We don't even share the same religion; I am not a believer. Most of us want to have a romantic relationship and get married to one partner. We all have ours own opinions, you can't just create us to be a "perfect person". Jut because we were born here, doesn't mean that we agree with how they choose to live. Nothing can ever be perfect, we all want to live our lives how we want. He is planning to pass the community on to me when he is elderly. I would definatly change how things are around here but I don't have good leadership and I don't want to dissappoint my father.

__Journal Entry of Theodore Noyes, circa June 1879__ Recently, my father was charged for statutory rape and has fled to the Onieda Mansion. Since then, we have revieved a letter from him from Niagara Falls, Ontaio. So the founders of our comunity are ageing and now are close to death, so I have decided to start change. We have already disscussed when the children should be brought into the sexual rituals and by who, but I know eventually the rituals will end and we can have romantic relationships with one person. Already a lot of members have entered a traditional marriage. I do not consider our cmmunity an "ideal community anymore". We all are living our lives how we choose. I define an ideal community as being independent.