04/20/2013
Romantic love is a huge psychological cost to pay for sex. Romantic love exists because in the evolutionary past sex meant producing an offspring whose survival was best ensured when the parents stayed together. Hence, the mechanism evolved which made the mating partners “fall in love” with each other so that they could concentrate their mating energy on each other exclusively. In our times, however, sex more often than not means pleasure, or fulfillment of bodily need – consciously keeping an offspring out of the way. Even when it means producing an offspring, the environment is good enough for the offspring to survive without the parents being together. Romantic love, therefore, is redundant.
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