The Importance Of Love In Kinsey By Alfred Kinsey

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At the end of the film Kinsey, Alfred Kinsey states that love cannot be scientifically understood because it can never be measured. While Kinsey is correct in stating that love can never be scientifically understood or measured, we can come to understand it as a social construct. Love simply cannot be measured because there are so many different types of love. There is the love experienced between family, friends, and significant others. Individuals also experience love in different ways depending on whom they are interacting with. Because there is no concrete standard that defines love it cannot be scientifically measured. As humans we recognize love as a social construct, which people often identify with based on experiences they have had …show more content…

Many times people who are in a relationship show their affection through sexual intercourse. Sometimes people choose only to participate in sexual activities with someone that they feel they love. Other people choose to separate the acts of “loving” someone and having sex with someone. It is truly left up to the individuals that are involved in choosing to take their relationship to a sexual nature. Our society often labels sexual activity that occurs outside of an exclusive relationship as scandalous, which then makes some people connect love and sexual activity. People also do not always have sex if they are in love. Kinsey attempted to show that love and sex do not have to be connected. He saw the world in a biological way, leading him to have sexual encounter with other people while he was still in love with his wide. For some people they are able to separate sex and love because they are have different ideals. There are also many types of sexual acts, for which people hold to a different value, allowing them to determine when they would participate in them. Because there are different types of love people cannot always have sex with everyone they are in love with. Defining love is impossible and is why people cannot always see love and sex as dependent of each

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