The Philosophy of Love and Sex

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This paper discusses different interpretations of the meaning of love and how love means different things to different people. The paper explains that love is clearly not limited to one concept of attraction nor is it necessarily based on attraction at all. Love can be selfless and giving or it can be based on the need to acquire an object of desire. It may not be possible to define love in any single manner that satisfies all philosophers or that explains all relationships. The paper points out, however, that without love human beings would no longer have such a unique position in this world.

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"It would seem to come as no surprise to most of us that a difference exists between love and sex. To many people, love, is the means to sex, which is the end to those means. Other people, perhaps not quite as many, would conclude that the opposite is true, that sex is the means by which we end with love. Regardless of a person's position, it remains clear that love and sex are not necessarily the same thing. A good argument for that position is that all animals reproduce using some kind of sexual function, but only human beings appear to experience love."

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