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SilentRosySunrise β Love Is More
Published: 2012-12-30 18:51:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 7257; Favourites: 500; Downloads: 7
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This is my first stamp. Here's the base. fav.me/d21wyc0Okay, I'm sure a lot of you are already aware of this stamp's message, but this is something I've been wanting to say for quite a while: There is more to love than just sex!
It really makes me sick how some people put too much emphasis on the sexual side of love. Love is more than just sex hormone-induced feelings. It's also about caring for other people besides yourself, no matter how ugly, beautiful, dumb, smart, etc. they are. True love is unconditional. Sex really doesn't have that much to do with it.
Just FYI, this isn't supposed to be one of those "love is love" stamps supporting gay marriage (there are plenty of those out there already). Instead, this stamp is meant to raise an awareness of how the amount of emphasis on sex in our culture today affects the way many people view love.
As always, mean or rude comments will not be tolerated. If I get too many of those, I'm disabling comments.
EDIT: I went back and outlined the text to make it easier to see.
EDIT 2: Wow, it's been a little over two years since I submitted this stamp, and people are still favoriting it?! Β
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I absolutely agree. There's sex without Love (a.k.a. selfish sexual intercourse). There's Love without sex. Of course both may be together, a.k.a. sex with Love which is ideal situation IMHO. The only thing getting me nuts is to live in a world (system) where sex (mainly without Love/feelings) is extremely overrated. Personally, I'm not interested in any sexual intercourse/interest unless being with someone who I absolutely Love and respect, and being compatible in both spirit and mind.
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It is so much more than the animalistic heat of sex, which is completely independent of love...
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I agree! Everyone needs to learn this.
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I agree! In fact I made a journal about this topic!
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Very interesting. I love this and I agree with this wholeheartedly.
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I support relationships that have both sex and real love. At the end of the day, it's always the people that matter, whether or not you have sex.
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So very, very true. I really like this stamp.
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More people ought to read this stamp.
It's depressing how many guys in my school treats girls like toys.
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Yeah, I agree. Many people just don't know it.
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"Sex is important in any relationship, you must have sex in your romantic relationship", I dislike this line, I would never expect my lover to have sex with me, that there is not love.
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I hate that line, too. It makes me feel quilty, because I'm not interested in sex.
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The following here are facts
1. There are people who cannot perform sexually, like people who are badly handicapped.
2. There are people who were sexually used and abused, if they are uncomfortable with sex can we blame em?
3. There are celibate people, many are celibate for religious purposes. Like they may want to wait for marriage or they want to transcend sexual temptation.
Just because they don't want to put out doesn't mean they don't care.
4. There are people who have a mixed orientation. It's been long believed that sexual and romantic are the same, but no they arent. Like those who are heteroromantic but homosexual, those who are homoromantic but heterosexual, etc. If these people are dating a certain gender but sexually attracted to the other gender, having sex will be more difficult with the gender they are dating.
5. Β The term "sex is important in a romantic relationship" normalizes date rape, spousal rape, sexual entitlement, sexual coercion and sexual shaming (like in your case). It may also come from the erroneous belief that true complete love is sexual. So if someone rapes me, they love me?
So it's love if a person only wants sex and nothing else with me?
If a person treats you with the utmost kindness up to the point of dying for you but never had sex with you, is it not love still?
Most will argue that sexless love is friendship, how so?
If two people go on a date and make out by the end of the date under a sky full of stars, it's friendship? What if they begin to use the label boyfriend or girlfriend.
If someone has a crush on me, they are implying they want a romantic relationship, not a friendship, crush and lust are confused for each other. I guess most people are admitting that their so called romantic partners were only their friends before they had sex with them. It also is factual that romantic love is not a part of nature, it was invented ages ago, but sexuality is natural! So we can see how they can be separate. 
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I love seeing stamps like these <3 It's nice to see others not having sex on the brain 24/7.Β
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I think sex has nothing to do with love. It's just a biological process. No love, what-so-ever. Just lust. It's hilarious how people say "Oh god, I haven't had sex for 2 days, I'm going insane." C'mon, get real.
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hahah i love this XDΒ
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gosh, thank you for making this! this really is a thing that needed to be said; some people seem to have a tenancy to forget love is also being affectionate and caring for one another through thick and thin.
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So true! This fits perfectly with one of the couples in the novel I'm working on, actually right at this very moment. 
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Yep! Even relationships can be non-sexual. If you're in a relationship with someone but you think you wouldn't be if they never, ever had sex with you, it's not true love. It's just lust. Even if I could never have sex with my boyfriend I'd still love him forever and want to marry him no matter what
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I share the same thoughts with you Bethany
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I really could care less about anyone's sex life. But Its sickens me if thats all what couples do.. Just....msex, sex, sex..Β
I'd rather see cutesy loveydovey couples than "sausy" couples.
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I get that if you're married to someone and you don't have an STD, never having sex could create some frustration, but that's not all a relationship is.
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Now, this is something a lot of people don't seem to get. I've read a lot of dating advice articles just to see how cheesey and whatnot they are. There have been so many that say, "U NEED SEKS 2 HAV UH GUD REELASHUNSHIP!!11" I read one that said, "DUNT BEE FULED IN2 HTINKING DAT U CAN LIV WITHUT SEKS (CUZ U CANT0!!1" and basically advised that you need to lay every guy/girl you bring into your life. You know, they have a word for people who do that: whores. Can you have sex without being a whore? Yes. But if you literally get laid by every guy on you second or third date, then you are a whore. Way back in the day, it didn't matter what religion you were, you were still told not to do the deed unless you were married. Nowadays it's like, "DICH VURJINITEE AZ SUNE AZ POSBLE!"
Yes, you can have sex in a relationship. But if that's the only thing you want or look for in a relationship, then good luck finding one that lasts more than a week.
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Awesome stamp, really. ^^
It's rare that you find someone with this viewpoint. I'm honestly sick and tired of people saying sex is NEEDED to make a relationship work because of our "animal instincts" or my personal favorite, "sexual NEEDS". BLEH.
To be honest, i'm in a relationship right now, and it's the least of our worries since we're abstinent. Doesn't mean our relationship is boring or we don't love each other. I've never been happier! I just think doing it before we're reading would just muck the whole thing up!
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Everything you said.
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Yeah, same here.
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Love is good without sex, sex is good without love. Love and sex together is good. Likewise, it can be very bad.
All depends on the person doing it.
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Actually, sex without love is pointless and even harmful.
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Uhh, no. Sex was created before love as an emotion existed. And the only sex that's harmful is sex done without consent. Any other sex is perfectly healthy.
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Unless it's sex with someone with an STI.
Just putting it out there.
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That too! That's pretty bad sex too.
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