PDF Version. Do mobile dating algorithms confirm our faith in soulmates, or does infinite choice dissolve our commitment to mutual growth? Traditional cultures used to create one system of fate and personal effort. But on modern dating sites, cosmic fates … Continue reading
Category Archives: the art of love
Aphrodisiacs and Sexual Love Across Cultures: Traditions and Modern Science
PDF Version. For centuries and in many different cultures around the world, men and women have utilized aphrodisiacs to enhance sexual attraction, arousal, and sexual relationships. This article traces the evolution of cultural traditions of medical intervention and sexual mysticism. … Continue reading
The Paradox of Choice While Scrolling and Swiping Through Dating Apps
PDF Version. In an age of endless social media scrolling, does the ‘next best thing’ replace the ‘great thing’ as an adversary? Researchers explore how the cognitive overload of choices in modern dating apps can be challenging for men and … Continue reading
Does Intelligence Matter in Love Relationships?
PDF Version. Do smart people better manage their romantic relationships? Researchers showed that general intelligence and specific cognitive abilities lead to better skills in navigating romantic relationships as well as mitigating undesirable relationship problems, such as infidelity and partner-directed violence. … Continue reading
Milk Jug Symbolizes Love among the Turkana People
PDF version A milk jug is an object with an evident utilitarian function—consumption. Yet, the nomadic pastoralist women of northwestern Kenya cherish their traditional milk jug, the akirum, as a profound aesthetic masterpiece. What is so special about milk and … Continue reading
Sex and the Sacred in North American Indigenous Art
PDF version Is sexual love only a biological impulse or a desire for the divine? While traditional study tends to look at the art of the Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast within a narrow framework of tribe crests and … Continue reading
How the Australian Bullroarer Invokes the Happiness of Sexual Love
PDF version Aboriginal Australians have long held the profound belief that the tjurunga—the bullroarer—brings happiness to both life and lovemaking. But how does a simple ritual object hold such immense power? This fascinating article explores how anthropologists uncovered the symbolic … Continue reading
How Passionate Love Emerges from Arousal
Here is a psychophysiological secret about why we fall in love with someone at first sight. It happens in special circumstances of autonomic arousal and the exciting context of a situation. In the appropriate conditions, the extrinsic arousal effect transforms … Continue reading
How to Make an Online Dating Profile Appealing: New Research
The fact that the first dating websites appeared only in the 1990s might seem surprising. However, dating websites have developed significantly over the last three decades. This development had a significant impact on how partners met, fell in love, and … Continue reading
How You Feel You Are Loved
How do you feel you are loved? Do you? Professor Mengya Xia and her colleagues from the University of Alabama recently conducted an interesting exploratory study on the core elements of love across family, romantic, and friend relationships. This research … Continue reading