How can you tell romantic and platonic love apart? What does it mean to fall in love with someone?

  • frankfurt_schoolgirl [she/her]
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    9 months ago

    I think this is a myth honestly. Plato fucked his students, he just thought that close relationships where you didn't have sex were the most ideal typw of relationship to have. https://learninglink.oup.com/access/content/gillis-jacobs2e-student-resources/gillis-jacobs2e-chapter-5-plato-and-same-sex-sexuality?previousFilter=all_resources

    • sadschmuck [none/use name]
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      9 months ago

      This passage is an unusual celebration of male same-sex desire by contemporary Western standards. Plato is explicitly linking manliness not with heterosexual desire but with homosexual desire.