platonic love

[Harbringer]

Ive heard a lot of people on this forum say that they find relationships boring without having sex involved, even others saying that they believe that that is the whole point of a relationship in the first place. I would like to know your stance on platonic love and if the affection and care for each other in a relationship actually means anything, and is not just a means to sex.

From personal experience I find sex enjoyable, but all the time spent together and the love and affection mean a whole lot more to me, I could just as easily love my fiore the same without and of my "parts"(BTW, for reference, I am male).

 

[Gangor]

For me a relationship needs both in roughly the same amount. And they are symbiotic. For sex to be really good there has to be a plutonic bond, and that bond is strengthened by sex.

 

[Gr3yL3gion]

For me a relationship needs both in roughly the same amount. And they are symbiotic. For sex to be really good there has to be a plutonic bond, and that bond is strengthened by sex.

My thoughts as well.

 

[Winner]

Platonic love means lack of relationship, doesn't it? It is not a term that would describe a relationship without sex, it describes a situation when two people (of opposite sex ) like each other very much, but they don't start any relationship.

 

[Gangor]

Platonic love means lack of relationship, doesn't it? It is not a term that would describe a relationship without sex, it describes a situation when two people (of opposite sex ) like each other very much, but they don't start any relationship.

nit picker

 

[Pasi Nurminen]

Unless there's something biologically or genetically wrong with you, you have sex in a relationship at some point. Biologically, the whole point of pair bonding is to have sex and perpetuate the species.

 

[Perfection]

From what I hear, Aristotle got a lot of Platonic love.

 

[Tee Kay]

For me a relationship needs both in roughly the same amount. And they are symbiotic. For sex to be really good there has to be a plutonic bond, and that bond is strengthened by sex.

Meh. I don't know a damn thing about a good relationship, having never been involved in one. But yeah, I guess that's my view too. No good going one extreme or the other.

 

[GenMarshall]

Platonic love means lack of relationship, doesn't it? It is not a term that would describe a relationship without sex, it describes a situation when two people (of opposite sex ) like each other very much, but they don't start any relationship.

That's my general impression about Platonic love.

 

[Truronian]

I've never really got the big deal about sex, and think romantic love is perfectly possible without it (I know a couple who have been married and celibate for fourty years). That said, I don't really see why sex should passed up when in a serious relationship... Each unto his own I suppose.

 

[Brighteye]

Platonic love means lack of relationship, doesn't it? It is not a term that would describe a relationship without sex, it describes a situation when two people (of opposite sex ) like each other very much, but they don't start any relationship.

Sex and love are entirely different and I don't see the connection at all.

 

[Golden Touch]

I think you need love and sex to be a couple.
You love you friends. you have sex with your playmates. your gf/bf is the person that you find both in in equal parts.

 

[Golden Touch]

Sex and love are entirely different and I don't see the connection at all.

quite a male attitude by all accounts!!! they are seperate, but i dont think you can have romantic love without sex.

 

[El_Machinae]

Platonic love is awesome. I love very many of my friends. And I like doing so.

 

[Pokurcz]

Friends without benefits.

Can a relationship be platonic if it once was unplatonic?

 

[Raisin Bran]

I think you need love and sex to be a couple.
You love you friends. you have sex with your playmates. your gf/bf is the person that you find both in in equal parts.

I agree with the above.

Take me and my ex. Our relationship was only platonic at the end at that killed us.

I dont mean that there is a need to make love each day but when in a relationship and feeling like roommates ain't good.

 

[Golden Touch]

Friends without benefits.

Can a relationship be platonic if it once was unplatonic?

nope, you've seen them naked

 

[Brighteye]

Why does seeing someone naked make it unplatonic?
Why do you think that one must love one's friends? Aren't they just people who you have fun with too, but not in a sexual way?

 

[El_Machinae]

It's tough to go back to platonic, I'll admit. There will always be a bit of a tension, I think.

 

[Rossiya]

I could just as easily love my fiore the same without and of my "parts"(BTW, for reference, I am male).

I've never heard people refer to their loves as "fiori".