Romantic love promotes and lays the foundation for the development of hegemonic affective
sex relationships, guiding the normative ways of feeling and experiencing love. This way of�…

Why is' love'taken for granted as a part of human experience? And why is sexual or romantic
love in particular so important to us? This book aims to find out, tracing the intellectual�…

Heterosexuality may seem, in most western societies, to be less securely entrenched than it
once was, with the increased visibility of same-sex relationships and advances in citizenship�…

We yearn to experience the idealized love depicted in so many novels, movies, poems, and
popular songs. Ironically, it is the idealization of love that arms it with its destructive power�…

In this chapter, we ask some awkward questions about the relationship between romantic
love and sexual behavior. First, is there such a thing as romantic love which people can�…

Understanding the construct of romantic love is an important task in societies all around the
world. However, instruments designed to assess this construct are scarce and most of them�…

Undoubtedly Romantic love has come to saturate our culture and is often considered to be
a, or even the, major existential goal of our lives, capable of providing us with both our sense�…

Social scientists long ignored love as a topic for empirical research, presuming love to be a
European contribution to world culture. Therefore, some researchers were surprised of and�…

This volume is the result of a thorough exploration of contemporary conceptions of romantic
love from different points of view. Beginning with an initial text where the meanings of�…

The aim of this study was to examine the association between romantic beliefs and
relationship status (single versus partnered) in Polish young adults. Two hundred and sixty�…