Can there be love without sex? Where is the border dividing love and friendship?
A. 1) Yes, but it must still be related to sexuality, even if there is no visible indication of that. Love (certainly, we don’t mean love for parents, children, animals, books, etc.) is always aimed at a potentially sexually attractive object. 2) 1. Friendship has nothing to do with sexuality. It has no connection to sex drive, either conscious or subconscious, and is not gender-specific or depending on sexual orientation of the participants. 2. Friendship is not a “persistent idea”. A friend does not become “the center of the world”, the focus of all thoughts and so on. 3. Real friendship is not jealous. A person can have many friends; friendship can connect more than two persons. 4. Real friendship must be earned. Friends forgive each other’s faults, but a good-natured person would not be a friend to a traitor, a smart one to a fool, etc. Love, on the other hand, ignores reason. 5. There can be no “unhappy”, “unshared” friendship.
A. 1) Yes, but it must still be related to sexuality, even if there is no visible indication of that. Love (certainly, we don’t mean love for parents, children, animals, books, etc.) is always aimed at a potentially sexually attractive object. 2) 1. Friendship has nothing to do with sexuality. It has no connection to sex drive, either conscious or subconscious, and is not gender-specific or depending on sexual orientation of the participants. 2. Friendship is not a “persistent idea”. A friend does not become “the center of the world”, the focus of all thoughts and so on. 3. Real friendship is not jealous. A person can have many friends; friendship can connect more than two persons. 4. Real friendship must be earned. Friends forgive each other’s faults, but a good-natured person would not be a friend to a traitor, a smart one to a fool, etc. Love, on the other hand, ignores reason. 5. There can be no “unhappy”, “unshared” friendship. It can be broken up, but more or less simultaneously
