Interesting to see that. Definitions that exclude sexual relationships seemed very heavily based on weird conceptions of who should be having sex and end up making it harder for people who engage in sex for reasons outside sexual and/or romantic attraction to describe themselves.
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Fun fact: as my philosophy prof never failed to point out platonic friendship in the original Greek sense did not exclude sexual relations and related to a relationship between mentor and student, which meant they were homosexual in nature. Cmp.: https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/hide-and-seek/202303/the-true-meaning-of-platonic-love
Interesting to see that. Definitions that exclude sexual relationships seemed very heavily based on weird conceptions of who should be having sex and end up making it harder for people who engage in sex for reasons outside sexual and/or romantic attraction to describe themselves.
And asymmetrical?
Shouldn’t the fourth panel have been another question?
I think the Socratic method is when the teacher questions the student continuously.
What evidence do you have to support this?
Perfect
First good out-loud laugh of the day. What was that 311 lyric…
I prefer my relationships Kafkaesque.
"But I don't wanna be a giant bug!"
"Why not?! I told you I'd still love you!"
Pointy ass tittays
Pointy ass too.
Im disturbed by how comfortable this immediately feels ...
Like I know and understand, yet ... the scientific need to destroy anything romantic, to explain the unknown ...