Romantic Love: Fact or Fiction?

[HazelGod]

I do and I like it.

Good thing, too...you can't really love anyone else until you learn to love yourself. :tongue:

 

[B_spiker067]

I do and I like it.

But will I or would I?

 

[B_spiker067]

Can you two get the hell off my thread and go find a room or an Island, I don't frikking care :tongue:

Dusty - hope you look like a buff jock cos that's what Spikey likes :biggrin1:

There's always a cock blocker in the bunch.

 

[B_Dustydo]

small matter Spiker!
I'm going to have a wild old time with or without you.

Drifterwood,
I'm buff enough to make the man holler for his momma if I have a mind to make it happen! :wink:

 

[B_Dustydo]

Good thing, too...you can't really love anyone else until you learn to love yourself. :tongue:

Good thing I love myself often and well then, hey?
If only there was someone who was cable of being as efficient at bring me to Orgasm as I am without the associated mess and bullshit.
Maybe such a creature doesn't exist.:wink:

 

[Rubenesque]

I believe in romantic love. Although I've only experienced it a couple of times in my life... would love to find it again, and have it last!

 

[Lex]

small matter Spiker!
I'm going to have a wild old time with or without you.

Drifterwood,
I'm buff enough to make the man holler for his momma if I have a mind to make it happen! :wink:

That's HAWT.

 

[Countryguy63]

Very simple Jason_Els,
If it was a dominant gene there would be more gay than straight babies born and the species would be doomed to die out due to the lack of offspring being born.

Not quite that simple Dustydo,

It's commonly misunderstood that in genes, "dominant" means stronger, with "recessive" meaning weaker.

Genetically, "dominant" does not mean stronger. It simply means that if you possess that gene, it will be expressed, or "show". Recessive genes can be present, but hidden.

If there were such a thing as the "gay gene", and it was recessive, a person could possess that gene, and not express it. It could possibly be passed on and expressed in future generations.

If it were a dominant gene, then it gets even more confusing because since it is not phonetically (visually) expressed, even if they possessed the gene, a person could hide it out of shame or fear.

However, Back On Topic, (lol) I used to believe that it existed, now I would vote "Fiction".

 

[greatdickismydrug]

Some people click. When they do, they'll click on certain aspects and to varying degrees, and their simpatico will persist for some amount of time...sometimes for a long while, other times not.

LMAO! You ain't gonna sell a whole bunch of cards, flowers, music, jewelry, etc with those words!

Answer to OP: fiction

 

[798686]

Fact. Can't be arsed arguing it tho - plus it may evolve after a while into different things - trust, companionship, teamwork...

 

[Gillette]

Fact. I think everybody has been starry eyed over another at one point in their lives.

The question is sustainability. Without respect, trust and compatibility love will erode.

 

[nudeyorker]

I am currently experiencing romance in my life, so for me it is a fact. I would assume if you have not experienced it or don't have the capacity to experience it you would say it's fiction. Romance is reciprocal; Have you ever heard the phrase "It takes two to tango?"

 

[SpeedoGuy]

Romantic Love? Infatuation. Much sought after but temporary.

 

[SilverTrain]

Yes, I'm with Robert Frost on this one:

Nothing gold can stay. [Nothing Gold Can Stay (poem) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia]

Which is certainly bad news for romance. If it's debatable whether lust is "gold" or not, it's nevertheless been my experience that lust fades as well.

 

[ZOS23xy]

Very simple Jason_Els,
If it was a dominant gene there would be more gay than straight babies born and the species would be doomed to die out due to the lack of offspring being born.

Nah, the lucky straight guys would have more women to choose from.

 

[ZOS23xy]

Fact. I think everybody has been starry eyed over another at one point in their lives.

The question is sustainability. Without respect, trust and compatibility love will erode.

Hey Starry eyes,

It happens to me and continues to happen. However there are limits when you're married and have kids.

I enjoy some people's company.

 

[cdarro]

If there is a gay gene, or more likely, genes - and I suspect that there is - it/they must also confer some kind of evolutionary advantage or it/they would have been purged from the genome.

 

[SilverTrain]

If there is a gay gene, or more likely, genes - and I suspect that there is - it/they must also confer some kind of evolutionary advantage or it/they would have been purged from the genome.

I think it's called "discriminating taste".

 

[chicagosam]

Try adding respect, devotion, adoration, care, fostering etc etc and may be these will add up to something that we don't have to "believe" in.

Let me see if I have this right: Romantic love is a self-indulgent ruse employed by one for a limited duration designed to get another person to submit to being used sexually by another for one's own self-gratification. If the person being used is deemed sexually satisfactory after the initial conjoining, they can be considered for further use. If they can be tolerated beyond sexual use, and there is further continuance of personal involvement between the two; this might fall under that idealistic, oft-used, and sanctified term—"romantic love."

Isn't it romantic?

 

[wallyj84]

Can we get a full definition of "romantic love?" I think that if we were given a concrete definition we could better determine if it's real or not.