Exploring the Association between Love and Sex

Guy Pinku

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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCollege Sex - Philosophy for Everyone
Subtitle of host publicationPhilosophers with Benefits
PublisherWiley-Blackwell
Pages158-168
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9781444332940
DOIs
StatePublished - 3 Aug 2010

Keywords

  • Attitudes towards sex without love - Juliet, association between sex and primary emotional awareness of interpersonal interaction
  • Exploring association between love and sex
  • Juliet, a strong emotional bond of love - making a difference, "sex with love... being deeply personal"
  • Notion of plain sex, alternative to "means-end analysis" of sex - conceived as mere instruments for some end
  • Primary emotional awareness - interpersonal interaction between adult human beings requiring sophisticated cognitive ability
  • Romeo and Juliet - and Talking about Sex and Love
  • Romeo and Juliet's disagreement - reflecting different notions of sex
  • Romeo and Juliet, acknowledging personal and gender differences between them - finding nothing to say
  • Romeo's respects for Juliet's feelings - whether they cover up something else
  • Romeo's response - sex without love, being a loving, intimate, and tender act

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Arts and Humanities

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