Psychologies

What’s love got to do with it?

When we hear the word ‘love’, we automatically think of romantic and sexual relationships. In Western society, from films, books, TV and social media, we are delivered a daily diet of frisson, flirtation and infatuation to encompass the complexities of love. Being single is still bound up with intense cultural anxiety, based on a commercialised model of human desire that is elusive. When sexual desire is used to sell

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