Sex - An Unnatural History E05: Love - Part 1 of 2

Love
Sex existed long before the idea of love but somewhere along the annals of history the two became entwined. Many humans then started selecting their partners based on this emotion.

We now know that pair bonding and sex for pleasure plays a fundamental role in the relationship between sex and love -- as does raising children, but how and why we have sex and the way we reproduce has shifted. The emotion known as love has long confounded scholars, poets and we everyday people and continues to do so. But why is that?

Julia investigates why we fall in love and what it is that sustains that emotion. Naturally science has poked its nose in as well, to try and understand how and why people fall in love. But is it really just all about neurotransmitters, dopamine, serotonin, vasopressin and other chemicals getting released at the right time? What about our heart and soul? Surely romance must have something to do with it or how do we explain the power of the sonnets of Shakespeare or the poetry of Yeats?

Love really can be a metaphysical experience and adding sex to the equation helps humans find an intimacy that will sustain a long-term relationship, but are we really wired for monogamy? Are we finding a way beyond the conventional monogamous relationships or does that green-eyed monster get in the way? Is it possible to have sex without love and vice versa? And where does love figure when it comes to arranged marriages? Or have we got it all wrong by placing too much importance on this crazy little thing called love?

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