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[cosmolinguist]

Is the difference between platonic love and romantic love a matter of kind or just of degree?

Comments

[kalieris.livejournal.com]

There definitely is such a thing as "platonic sex." Hence the term "fuck buddy."

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[gentleman-lech.livejournal.com]

I agree. Which is why I phrased it the way I did.

Love and sex are two independent things. You don't have to love someone to have sex, and love without sex isn't incomplete.

I hate getting referential, but sometimes you have to.

[angel-thane.livejournal.com]

By defintion there cannot be such a thing as 'platonic sex' Its a contradition in terms. From Websters:

platonic
\Pla*ton"ic\, Platonical \Pla*ton"ic*al\, a. [L. Platonicus, Gr. ?: cf. F. platonique.]
1. Of or pertaining to Plato, or his philosophy, school, or opinions.
2. Pure, passionless; nonsexual; philosophical.