Abstract

COSTA, Gley P.. Ensaio sobre a íntima e complexa relação entre o amor e o sexo: Essay on the intimate and complex relationship between love and sex. Ide (São Paulo) [online]. 2011, vol.34, n.52, pp.132-143. ISSN 0101-3106.

There are many situations in which one is led to assume that love can exist without sex, but can the same be said of the opposite? The long history of marriages reveals an evident disassociation between love and sex, which has gradually lessened since the times of the Industrial Revolution. However, with new habits being introduced by post-modernity, a new dissociation between love and sex has been established - one in which sex became well accepted and love, especially the romantic type, lost its prestige. As a result, there is today a loss of quality in the relationships that the contemporary world tries to compensate with the valorization of quantity and novelty. The hopes are that in the future love can be rescued in sexual relationships.

Keywords : Love; Sex; Desire; Passion; Instincts; Marriage’s history; Post-modernity; Contemporary society.

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