Love
The personal experience and manifest expression of being attached, committed, and bonded to another person, group of persons, or an ideal.
Body exploration: Precoital or loveplay activity in which the partners explore, touch, stroke, and caress each others body and the erogenous areas.
Falling in love: The personal experience and open expression of being intensely, and possibly suddenly, attracted, both sexually and emotionally, to another person. If reciprocated by the other person, it is the source of emotional ecstasy; if unreciprocated, it is the source of great anguish.
Free love: A philosophical, often anarchistic movement in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American culture American society that advocated the abolition of marriage and the right of each person to live without government regulation of interpersonal relations.
Love affair: A short- or long-term romantic relationship that usually involves sexual activity, although in some love affairs emotional intimacy may be the primary motivation and sexual intimacies avoided.
Love at first sight: A strong and immediate reaction to another person in a totally engrossing attraction or infatuation.
Loveblot: A person or image who resembles the person or image in someone's lovemap sufficiently to become the recipient in a limerent love affair.
Lovemaking: A euphemism for sexual intercourse.
Lovemap: A personalized developmental template or representation in the mind and brain depicting an idealized lover and the idealized program of sexuoerotic activity.
Lovemap displacement: The process whereby a normal lovemap is changed into a paraphilic lovemap when an element that is intrinsic in courtship and loveplay becomes dislocated from its normal place, repositioned and exaggerated.
Lovemap inclusion: The process whereby a normal lovemap is changed into a paraphilic lovemap when some lement extraneous to courtship and loveplay becomes incorporated into developing lovemap.
Love object: In psychoanalytic terminology, the person toward whom one directs and in whom one invests libido or sexual energy, or the person who is the object of one's affection, romantic interests and sexual desire.
Loveplay: An inclusive term covering all sexuoerotic activities from the least intimate first stages of flirtation to the fill sexual intimacies and varieties of mutual autoeroticism, oral, anal, coital activities. Any mutually shared activity that leads, more or less, to sexual pleasure and gratification.
Lover: A man or woman who is romantically and sexually inolved with another person who is not his or her spouse.
Love sickness: The personal and painfully traumatic emotions experienced when the partner with whom one has fallen in love or is limerent responds satisfactorily or with indifference.
Sensate focus exercises: Noncoital, nondemand, graduated pleasuring exercises developed by William Masters and Virginia Johnson for use in behavioral therapy of various sexual dysfunctions. The exercises stress playful, non-goal-oriented touching, caressing exploration of the partner;s body and sensualresponses with continual verbal feedback.
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