May 9, 2008

Difference between Love and Lust

(1) Sex, when it is purely physical, with no bonding, no love and care, no sense of togetherness -- it is highly negative and evil. Not that it shouldn't be tolerated in a society or not given space. However, when this is promoted by a culture above 'sex that goes with love and bonding' -- then it becomes problematic.

And when you suppress/ kill the positive attributes of love in a population -- take the case of the third sex which has been banished from the society into the fringes -- what remains is negative and evil lust. That is why the gay community is based purely on sex -- it lives and thrives on sex and it is promoted by the third-sex gay culture. In fact third sex males who like men, have been, since the times of the ancient Greeks, being known to be lusty and into multi-partner unattached sex. It is not that members of the third sex don't feel love. Its only that the love part has been killed by the society -- which holds such a relationship abhorable (in this case receptive anal sex). So what remains is the negative lust, which the society allows with a demeaning, negative identity/ social space. The 'gay' label carries with it the stigma of this demeaning, negative identity.


(2) In case of male-female sex, the traditional society has been making a difference between sex that is purely lust, and sex which is more "love". However, even love between men has been castigated by the same society as "carnal desire" and "lust", and therefore castigated by the society as it would lust.

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