How To Stop Sexualizing Everything by D. C. McAllister

How To Stop Sexualizing Everything by D. C. McAllister

This is rather long, but well worth the read:

(Link): How To Stop Sexualizing Everything by D C McAllister

Excerpts:

• Our society needs a phileo resurgence so we can express ourselves with the nonsexual passion and love we really feel.
• … I guess I am kind of weird. I confess: I’m very passionate about my friends. But am I the abnormal one, or is there something wrong with our society? My daughter isn’t unusual, and her response was pretty typical. Many people have that reaction to women who are passionate about their friends—and even more so for men!…I wish “bromance” would disappear from the American lexicon forever.
• That’s because it represents everything that’s wrong with our culture when it comes to friendship.Instead of friendship being noble, nonromantic, and normal, it has become the exception, romanticized to the point that we’re uncomfortable describing it and experiencing it for what it is. Even as we try to distinguish it from homosexuality, we are corrupting real friendship by placing it in the context of romance….How Romanticism and Puritanism Corrupts Friendship

  The problem with our modern culture is friendship has been corrupted. Lewis says it began with the age of sentimentality and romanticism.