i think what the issue is when discussing love is everybody has their own definition...some equate love with sex and others equate love with an emotional need for each other. Then there's the concept of what kind of love...romantic, friendly, unrequited, on and on...humanity has a desire to name and label everything, and if something doesn't apply to pre conceived notions it's a new label...and then those who are willing to "create" their own belief about a society endorsed vision, are frowned upon, labeled as sexually emotional devients, even accused of much more "heinous" crimes against "true love".

I agree that the vision of "true love" everyone seems to hold as the ideal life of bliss and perfect soul mates in the world is over romanticized...true love isn't like that...it's loving all the reality with the rose tint, having to love yourself before you are strong enough to love another...when you are spiritually ready you will get what you need to grow...but it's all a harvest...and not all love is romantic and yes i believe love can exist completely separate of sex...we are just animals after all the fancy darwinism is taken away...