A Love that is Pure and True...
... with emphasis on the pure.
Recently, there was an essay by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pandarus on metafandom decrying Western civilization’s need to sexualise everything, and, specifically, fandom’s need to sexualize close friendships like, say, Sam and Frodo’s, and another one by minisinoo linked to it in the comments about the nature of phillia, the ancient Greek term for the closest and most passionate kinds of friendship, and modern society’s uncomfortableness with it. I was reading away, thinking, “she’s got a point here,” and feeling just a but of guilt since I’m one of those people who sexualises phillia (hello, Wyatt/Doc slash), and then my defensive mechanisms pried up the mental railroad ties and derailed my train of thought. “Why,” I suddenly asked myself, “is sexualising relationships necessarily bad?”
( Cause sex is, you know, sinful and dirty and stuff )
Recently, there was an essay by
pandarus on metafandom decrying Western civilization’s need to sexualise everything, and, specifically, fandom’s need to sexualize close friendships like, say, Sam and Frodo’s, and another one by minisinoo linked to it in the comments about the nature of phillia, the ancient Greek term for the closest and most passionate kinds of friendship, and modern society’s uncomfortableness with it. I was reading away, thinking, “she’s got a point here,” and feeling just a but of guilt since I’m one of those people who sexualises phillia (hello, Wyatt/Doc slash), and then my defensive mechanisms pried up the mental railroad ties and derailed my train of thought. “Why,” I suddenly asked myself, “is sexualising relationships necessarily bad?”( Cause sex is, you know, sinful and dirty and stuff )