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“Friendship isn’t constantly put at risk by sexual practices, by how much danger there is in the mixture of lofty emotions and the pressure of bodies to give and be given pleasure.
It’s true that today, from what I can see, sexual friendship is increasingly widespread (in Italian, I’ve sometimes heard the lighthearted neologism trombamico, or “frien
Romanticism has conceptually united love and sex. It has elevated sex to the supreme expression of admiration and respect for another person. Frequent, mutually satisfying sex is assumed to be not just pleasurable but the expected bellwether of the health of a relationship. Romanticism has thereby turned infrequent sex and adultery from the problem
... See moreAlain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
I’m always thinking about that Raúl Zurita quote that people put on Tumblr: Toda declaración de amor es urgente porque vamos a morir [every declaration of love is urgent because we’re going to die]. In real life, obviously, you cannot declare love to just anyone. You have to go with the flow, wait on other people’s time, accept their ambivalence, t... See more
Do you call women in your life who you are not sleeping with “pivots” instead of friends? If you are around a woman in a non-social setting, such as a business meeting or a nursing home, do you get a strange shot of adrenaline and