Love and Intimacy

For more than 4000 years, poets and storytellers have sung of the delights and sufferings of love. Anthropologists and evolutionary psychologists argue that passionate love is a cultural universal. Cultural researchers and historians, on the other hand, emphasize the stunning diversity in the way passionate love and sexual desire have been viewed at different times and in different places. Culture has been found to have a profound impact on how people view passionate love, how frequently they fall in love, and how they deal with these tumultuous feelings.