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Biology of Love: Why Do Men Have Sex?

  • Journal of Humanities
  • 2015, (57), pp.361-397
  • Publisher : Institute for Humanities
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : March 31, 2015
  • Accepted : May 7, 2015

Eul-Sang Lee 1

1부산대학교

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ABSTRACT

Why do we fall in love? The reason for our falling in love is attributed to a biological factor. Nowadays, the theory of evolution confirms to us that it is true. Especially the feelings of passion and intimacy create our romantic love, whose origin is rooted in the strategy of mating or reproducing animals. From this strategy was the mind of men (as well as of animals) made and its program was also carved in the brain. Nature has just evolved the brain of men from that of animals. But in the community of men, passion and intimacy worked contradictorily, and so illicit loves and divorces, even sexual violence, have been rampant. This is surely an absurdity of love, and in the past have we tried to resolve this absurdity through promoting a social system and establishing a norm. But a traditional system or norm has a limit in terms of overcoming human nature, which has taken place within human beings biologically. From such an insoluble problem, some questions can be asked like the following: 1) Why has nature evolved for men to create such contradictory desires?; 2) What (evolutional) interests has such evolution of desires bring men?; and 3) Why have we fallen in love and how has love been developed? By answering to these questions, we will be able to construct a control system of our romantic love. From this solution can we also look forward to clarifying the biological substrate of our normative life.

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