/lit/ - Literature

>>6147048
literature

>>6147065
idiot

>>6147048
kek

romantic >= platonic > sexual

romantic and platonic love are the same anyway if you're not a homo

Yes, in my opinion...platonic loving is a love which is entirely selfless and unequivocal

>being affected by chemical cocktails instead of saving your seed strictly for reproducing

stay irrational dowsers

>>6147048
dog-human friendship is the highest form of love known to man

>>6147100
>not being celibate

ITT: people who dont know what Platonic love is

>>6147173
enlighten us, then.

>>6147190
An emotional and spiritual relationship between a couple that does not involve sexual desire

>>6147203
no, it's a kinda of love that someone gets for other someone and that love cannot be expressed or fulfilled, you could argue it's not even love

It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life.

ITT, stuck in the friendzone

>>6147228
lol thats not platonic love m8

>>6147267
you do not feel the occasional pang of repulsion, then, from your carnal acts? You do not observe from the third person and remark "how hideous, how strange"?

Platonic love, romanticised in the fatalistic worldview as it is in literary canon, definitely has its appeals.

>>6147203

No it's being so gay for Socrates that you love his soul, though he would not fuck your boypussy like you wanted.

No, it's caritas- selfless love.

>There is no greater love than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends.

What are some good, prime example reads with platonic love, /lit/?

>>6147085
literally lmao

romance was created by women to judge whether men would be committed providers

that literal closed minded hetero bias
that literal pseudo intellectual posturing, platonic > sexual but romance > platonic?

truth:
platonic > whatever else

>>6147284
this

sexual > romantic > platonic

>>6147710
are u stuck in the 3 month relationship zone bro

>>6147700
Romance was actually about cuckold love, and it was mostly invented by male writers.

>>6147768
Men would of course be the first to express it seeing as they had the means to do so but it appeals most widely to women and it serves their ends. Maxwell was the first to define the speed of light through permeability constants but that doesn't mean he made it or made it fast.

Don't try to inject history half haphazardly to make a point.

>>6147795
It appeals most widely to women because we inculcate little girls with that shit. Muh Disney princess.

>>6147710
Only someone who rarely (if ever) has sex would rate sexual relationships this highly.

>>6147809
It appeals to women because of their situation primarily, then of course there's the manipulation of ideas.

>>6147809
are you a girl?

>>6147882
I mean, perhaps now things may be changing and the only thing keeping it alive is what you speak about.

There are many possible related phenomena acting at once so I'll just stop.

>>6147882
The distinction here is not significant.

>>6147884
Why do you ask?

>>6147228
That is unrequited love

>>6147768
>Romance was actually about cuckold love
Elaborate.

>>6147903
"Courtly love" was literary device that started in Medieval literature. It involved illicit relations, which allowed for the development of romance If the woman weren't married and the guy wanted to fuck her, he'd just arrange a marriage with her father. But if she's married, then he doesn't woo her father, but instead woos her for her love.

>>6147916
Thanks.

>>6147891
just curious really

>>6147944
People who ruin discussions. We have anonymity for a reason.

>>6147949
Kill yourself.

>>6147949
hey i'm not busting anyone's balls here mate, if he/she doesn't want to answer so be it

>>6147085
>romantic and platonic should be the same

You have romantic love for your mother and all your friends? Wtf

>>6147944
I'm half woman. That is to say this name is shared by a couple.

>>6149185
Now it's shared by three.

>>6149190
O_O

kinkeh

>>6147736
Is there any reason as to why the last three relantionships I have had only lasted about three months?

>>6147048
The only love that exists statistically is maternal love. The rest is a pure excuse from the betas to justify their pitiful behavior in remaining incapable of taking a woman, without even mentioning several women.

>>6149194
Figures. Three is the magic number with the Greeks.

>>6149209
3 months is just the magic number for stupid relationships for couples who don't know how to get over a disagreement

The Fair Youth sonnets say so, so it must be true. Right?

we're talkin about fucking boys right?

>>6149357
I'd fuck this boy so hard my dick would break. It's no wonder Shakespeare was so into girly boys.

>>6147404
underrated post

>>6147048
>yfw you realize Platonic love if named after Plato

>>6147267
If pagans were so muh sex, why is Christianity the most natalist religion.

>>6149630

What is syncretism

>>6149388
what is this obsession with fucking men?

>>6149636
It's called homosexuality, iirc.

>>6147710
stay carnal you fucking child

>>6149636
decay of morals in western society

>>6149631
The passages about being fruitful and multiplying are from the first book of the Old Testament, long before Roman Empire was a thing.

>>6149337
Well, they didn't finish because of a desagreement.

why would also wanting to fuck someone make your love any less meritorious

>>6147048
Its not, you just subjectivly think so.

ITT: Friendzoned plebs rationalizing away.

God speed you virgins.

No, that would be Randian love.

>>6147284
>rationalizing being a pussy whipped beta

you can still have sex and recognize that platonic love between two men is superior.

>>6147048
It is nice to have platonic love. I have two male friends I have known for a considerable amount of time. We love each other like brothers.