All appetitive acts toward the good originate with love. As the root of all appetitive acts love is the reason why things move at all. Every human being naturally loves itself. Let us first note that love tends toward an object for two reasons. One reason was for money and/or health. The second reason is the person loved is appreciated on account of his own intrinsic value. The intention of the lover is to posses the other for the sake of the lover himself. Lox and sex can be found in the same individual. Sexual activity may well be a culmination of human affection. While genuine love therefore altruistic, sexual attraction is egotistical, self-centered: the other is sought as a means to the pleasure of the subject. Love is not progressive but generous it is a giving not a receiving act. Love is impossible without respect for the other. It is a unique person who is loved and for his own intrinsic goodness without regard for anything else. Human love is specifically spiritual. Love implies an interaction of persons.
In the context of sex, the highest type of satisfaction ensues when the partners are truly in love with one another as persons. Sex is an expression of love. The lover genuinely cares for the beloved. There will be very little meaningful sex without love, and this is because love is the cause of those prerequisites for sex. Sex and love are harmonized as acts of a unified personality. Sexuality is not primarily genital: it involves warmth and tenderness. The intimacy is so interlocking that the beloved is truly “another self.” The human potential of sex actualized, it is the love that makes sex human. Love is interpersonal relationships constitute the essence of friendship. Friendship rather includes a reciprocal love. Friends will love one another: It is the nature of friendship not to be hidden. In erotic love the object is desired for the sake of the lover in a kind of self-centered way. With friendship the other is loved for himself.
In conclusion, love of oneself enables a subject to extend his love to others. True love of another supposes a love of oneself: the good which is valued within is found in another. The more you love the more you give. Love is a free giving of oneself that is the greatest gift anyone can give. Love seeks no recompense. Love then can exist only if it seeks no reward but once it exists it is rewarded. Love takes where knowledge leaves off. In love then some sort of union is required between lover and beloved. Love which is freely given must not only be accepted but also reciprocated. In the ecstasy of the love, the lover loses himself in his beloved only to find himself in that other, for a friend indeed is another self. Love is a binding force by which another is joined to me and cherished as myself.
In the context of sex, the highest type of satisfaction ensues when the partners are truly in love with one another as persons. Sex is an expression of love. The lover genuinely cares for the beloved. There will be very little meaningful sex without love, and this is because love is the cause of those prerequisites for sex. Sex and love are harmonized as acts of a unified personality. Sexuality is not primarily genital: it involves warmth and tenderness. The intimacy is so interlocking that the beloved is truly “another self.” The human potential of sex actualized, it is the love that makes sex human. Love is interpersonal relationships constitute the essence of friendship. Friendship rather includes a reciprocal love. Friends will love one another: It is the nature of friendship not to be hidden. In erotic love the object is desired for the sake of the lover in a kind of self-centered way. With friendship the other is loved for himself.
In conclusion, love of oneself enables a subject to extend his love to others. True love of another supposes a love of oneself: the good which is valued within is found in another. The more you love the more you give. Love is a free giving of oneself that is the greatest gift anyone can give. Love seeks no recompense. Love then can exist only if it seeks no reward but once it exists it is rewarded. Love takes where knowledge leaves off. In love then some sort of union is required between lover and beloved. Love which is freely given must not only be accepted but also reciprocated. In the ecstasy of the love, the lover loses himself in his beloved only to find himself in that other, for a friend indeed is another self. Love is a binding force by which another is joined to me and cherished as myself.
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