Love

Love
Love is a variety of different feelings, states and altitude that ranges from interpersonal affection to pleasure. Biologist Jeremy Griffith defines love as ‘unconditional selflessness’
The research about love was left in the hands of creative writers to explain what really love is but scientific research about love increased enormously twenty years ago. Many scholars from the fields of Psychology, Anthropology, Neuroscience and Biology have gone into deeper extents to explain love such as Dr. Helen Fisher, John Lee, Robert Sternberg and Zick Rubin
The ancient Greeks indentified four forms of love
Storge. Kinship/familiarity love
Philia. Friendship love
Eroes. Sexual/romantic desire kind of love
Agape, self emptying or divine love
Kinship love is natural affection such as the intimate bond between a mother and her child and vice versa. Studies have shown we are all attracted to what is familiar to us, and that exposure to certain people will increase our attraction towards them. If a kinsman is hurt literally we tend to feel the pain than if it was a total stranger. Many studies base on these ancient forms of love to explain love.
Psychologist John Lee categorized love in six major types. Eros; this is an erotic desire for an idealized other same as sexual desire in the ancient Greeks. In his research Zick Rubin states this as intimacy whereas Helen fisher calls it lust. Lust is the feeling of sexual desire; lust is the initial passionate sexual desire that promotes mating, and involves the increased release of chemicals such as testosterone and estrogen. Intimacy according to Zick Rubin intimacy is sharing private thoughts, feelings, and desires with the other person. Erotic lover choose their lovers by intuition. The erotic lover can be perceived as a hopeless romantic
Ludus; ludic lovers are players