There are only
perceptional and contextual variations in degrees and intensities; intentions
and involvement; value systems, mental maturity, socio-cultural mores, biological
and hormonal impacts; the frames of reference from various perspectives and
inherent conditioning and indoctrination and so on.
All or any of
these can alter the status of any or all of these ranging from lust to love and
they allow a very wide spectrum of emotions in between, within or beyond them
ranging from youthful romance to familiarity to spontaneous affection to
socially and religious sanctioned and sanctified relationship to heartfelt
personal intimacy of body, mind and spirit.
There is first
a necessity to observe the whole gamut of any issue, more so address various
aspects when it comes to emotions/feelings with psychological pinning without
being judgmental or taking positions.
This can/may
help us look into many more aspects of the issue.
Even my write
up on Love started off more as a response to hypocritical reactions towards the
very word and concept. It was the primary tone in which it began then as I
waded through without inhibition I decided to write what is there in the link
below.
Actually if we
delve deeper we may have to address too many factors ranging from purely
clinical to civilizational to cultural issues
About Love and
Cultural bias
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