 Woodhull and Claflin used their newspaper to advocate for Free Love, a movement which in the nineteenth century pushed to separate sex from marriage.The Free Love movement was considered very fringe at this time and their advocacy of the movement shocked many.As biographer Myra McPherson explained, “In arguing that a woman had a right to freedom regarding her own body, to choose her mate, to decide when she wanted sex, and actually to enjoy it, the sisters were so far ahead of the era that they were openly called prostitutes in print.” "Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly" was also the first paper in America to print "The Communist Manifesto.