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Dewayne Perkins: ‘I don’t think I was put on earth to force people to love me’ Dewayne Perkins (Courtesy Sela Shiloni) When Dewayne Perkins first came out in high school, he worried his ...
Historically, the portrayal of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people in media has been largely negative if not altogether absent, reflecting a general cultural intolerance of LGBTQ individuals; however, from the 1990s to present day, there has been an increase in the positive depictions of LGBTQ people, issues, and concerns within mainstream media in North America. [1]
Aron has studied love in many other experiments, and he’s been struck by how contextual factors influence relationships. “Unfortunately the single biggest [factor], if you look across the world, is stress,” he said. “If you’re very poor, if you’re in a crime-ridden neighborhood, it’s hard for any relationship to work out very well.
The roots of the classical philosophy of love go back to Plato's Symposium. [3] Plato's Symposium digs deeper into the idea of love and bringing different interpretations and points of view in order to define love. [4] Plato singles out three main threads of love that have continued to influence the philosophies of love that followed.
"Love" is a basic level that concept includes super-ordinate categories of emotions: affection, adoration, fondness, liking, attraction, caring, tenderness, compassion, arousal, desire, passion, and longing. Love contains large sub-clusters that designate generic forms of love: friendship, sibling relationship, marital relationship etc.
Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, or the deepest interpersonal affection, to the simplest pleasure. [1] An example of this range of meanings is that the love of a mother differs from the love of a spouse, which differs from the love of food.
Through practicing love, and thus producing love, the individual overcomes the dependence on being loved, having to be "good" to deserve love. He contrasts the immature phrases "I love because I am loved" and "I love you because I need you" with mature expressions of love, "I am loved because I love", and "I need you because I love you." [33]
Romance or romantic love is a feeling of love for, or a strong attraction towards another person, [1] and the courtship behaviors undertaken by an individual to express those overall feelings and resultant emotions.