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What does it mean to love someone? (hexbear.net)
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How can you tell romantic and platonic love apart? What does it mean to fall in love with someone?

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[โ€“] frankfurt_schoolgirl@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think this is a myth honestly. Plato fucked his students, he just thought that close relationships where you didn't have sex were the most ideal typw of relationship to have. https://learninglink.oup.com/access/content/gillis-jacobs2e-student-resources/gillis-jacobs2e-chapter-5-plato-and-same-sex-sexuality?previousFilter=all_resources

[โ€“] sadschmuck@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

This passage is an unusual celebration of male same-sex desire by contemporary Western standards. Plato is explicitly linking manliness not with heterosexual desire but with homosexual desire.