Is love a compulsion or persuasion?— When not answered via a mystifying tunnel vision
Written by Hritam SahaLove means an intense feeling of affection and therefore, it is abstract. However, there are ways to express one's love towards another. Is sexual intercourse the ultimate way of expressing one's love to another? If yes, then why 'having sex' and 'making love' are different from each other. The former only fulfills physical urges while the latter interweaves two souls.Ancient past says that every man is allowed to have sex with a woman who has the potential of giving birth. Even if that woman is married but her husband is not with her, all the men are allowed to have sex with her. The rationale behind a woman 'open for all men' was— a woman, by not giving birth, shall not waste her fertility period. However, the present prescribes that 'people' should have sexual intercourse only after getting married, and it perhaps sounds more liberal and civilized, firstly, for its nondiscrimination between a man and a woman as it uses a gender-neutral word 'people' and secondly the 'open for all men scheme' is now been buried. Now, one can argue about live-in relationships which some sarcastically identify as hire and purchase agreement as they say that— firstly, two people hire each other to understand their togetherness’s merits and demerits thereafter if they find each other suitable then only they will purchase each other by marrying.