So Many Love Songs...

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But Is love just a glorification of the sexual impulse? Do people ever really fall in love for noble reasons like "We loved each other's personality" or is it all like Fred Durst posits : we do it for the "Nookie" ? Are love songs just animal mating howls?

― Mike Hanley, Friday, 25 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There are loving songs and there are fucking songs. You can tell the difference by the amount of bass. Seriously i belive that love is a social constructed way to allow for sexual contact. Therefore love songs deal with the socialazation, the rites and rituals before and after mating .

― Anthony, Friday, 25 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Reformed cynic's answer:

In my experience, the belief that "love is a societal concept for the justification of fucking" is a personal justification espoused by a lonely individual who has never loved or been loved.

I held that view for many, many years. And now, love songs suddenly actually make sense. I've even written one or two now. How ridiculous is that?

― masonic boom, Friday, 25 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Love is love. Fucking is fucking. They can (and do) intersect, but one can be done without the other.

I feel sorry for anyone who believes love is only a social construct, and I don't mean that in a snide way.

― DG, Friday, 25 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hey, all the best things in life are social constructs. If love was just pure rutting, then society wouldn't enter the picture at all. Music, after all, is a social construct. As is baseball, and as are outdoor markets where they sell fresh-slaughtered beef. Mmmm. Beef.

― Sterling Clover, Friday, 25 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think its like this. The basis of romance and love is sex. But this doesn't mean we are animals, it just means extensions of sex govern love. Of course love is also based on whether you can get along with the person and you lik etheir personlaity, but I wonder if love is ever, atleast at first, really based on attraction of person or attraction of bodies?

― Mike Hanley, Friday, 25 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Doesn't have to be any attraction. Power struggles are at the root of everything.

― tarden, Sunday, 27 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Adlerian!

― Mike Hanley, Sunday, 27 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

people fall in love based on desires. desire of sexual activity could be one example, but why couldnt two individuals share something just as intense or stimulating as sexual contact?

― dan rukas, Sunday, 27 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I love you, but not like that. *shudder*

― JM, Monday, 28 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Good point, JM. If it really was true that "love=sex" then I'd get a whole lot more play than I do.

― Sterling Clover, Monday, 28 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I love everyone like that.

Ahem.

― Ally, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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