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Personhood and Erotic Experience

by Paul Gregory

Why is it that love sometimes calls so insistently for a sexual expression? For not every feeling of love is accompanied by desire, and many people can feel physical attraction in the absence of any love properly speaking.

Yet the connection strikes us as important, even supremely important. It is not as when, having found someone we enjoy chatting to and whom we generally get along with, we discover them to be also a good tennis partner. Far from being like a game or an exchange, however pleasurable, the act of love seems to be pregnant with meaning.

After so serious a question, here is something merely puzzling.

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