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�…

Love has been the subject of much speculation throughout the ages. For example,
Shakespeare was not the first to note that love is blind-Chaucer said it almost two hundred�…

Westerners believe that love makes life worth living; that sex is a natural desire different in
kind from love; and that only cynics reduce our love life to a calculation of economic or�…

Sex and romantic love are complexly related. The various links between love and sex are
broadly surveyed, including the views of undergraduates, philosophers, psychologists�…

Narratives of romantic love pervade Western culture. However, the complexity of the lived
experience of romantic love is not reflected in many of these. Qualitative research that�…

Pilot work and three studies detail the development of thePerceptions of Love and Sex
Scale,'a measure of how people view the link between love and sex in their romantic�…

The myth not only records the dynamics of romantic love in the male psyche, it also reflects
the fate of the feminine in our culture; it shows how the feminine values of feeling�…

What love is, why love is born, why it sometimes grows, and why it sometimes dies. Have
you ever wondered how romantic love evolves? What the difference is between mature and�…

Our goal is to use prototype analysis to distinguish the folk or culturally held understandings
of love, romantic love, and sex and to specify, from the obtained data, the semantic�…

Romantic love seems to be a nearly universal phenomenon, appearing in every culture for
which data are available and in every historical era. This chapter first reviews research on�…