Abstract
Romantic love promotes and lays the foundation for the development of hegemonic affective sex relationships, guiding the normative ways of feeling and experiencing love. This way of conceiving love is an intrinsic part of women's subordination, and it entails a greater tolerance for situations of violence in sex-affective relationships in which the exercise of asymmetric power relations between men and women is legitimized. With the current advent of the postmodern stage, a wide variety of dissident (non-heterosexual) sexual orientations with heterosexual hegemony have been given greater visibility and legitimacy, and new ways of relating to sex affectively have emerged initially opposed to traditional romantic discourse, the fundamental pillar of monogamy. The aim of the present work was to study whether these different ways of linking us and understanding affective sex relations marked a significant difference with respect to the heterosexual monogamous hegemonic model in the assumption of the mythified ideas of romantic love. Therefore, we studied the relationship between sex, sexual orientation, and the type of sex-affective relationship (monogamous or non-monogamous by consensus) in the assumption of the myths of romantic love. For this purpose, an instrument that showed appropriate psychometric properties was created, and a cross-sectional study was carried out with a sample of 1,235 people who completed a self-administered online questionnaire. The results indicated that there were no significant differences according to sex, but there were differences in sexual orientation and type of relationship. It may be concluded that a person, regardless of sex, heterosexual or homosexual, monogamous or who has never had affective sex relations, will have a significantly greater probability of assuming the myths of romantic love than a person with a sexual orientation other than heterosexual or homosexual and who is in a non-monogamous consensual relationship.
Highlights
RESEARCH ON LOVEAffective sexual relationship is a phenomenon affected by transitional events in the middle of a postmodern stage were originally opposed discourses and ways of understanding these types of relationships coexist and conflict between each other
No specific works have been found in relation to myths of romantic love and sexual orientation, we found several works that studied aspects that are included in myths of romantic love, such as those that refer to jealousy and exclusivity
The objective of the study was to analyze the influence of sex, sexual orientation, and type of affective sexual relationship variables on the assumption of the myths of romantic love, for which it was necessary to create and test the psychometric properties of a scale of myths about romantic love
Summary
Affective sexual relationship is a phenomenon affected by transitional events in the middle of a postmodern stage were originally opposed discourses and ways of understanding these types of relationships coexist and conflict between each other. In this context is produced a multiphrenic state, in which people start to experience bewilderment of the illimitate multiplicity Paraphrasing Kollontai (1976), we could consider that a change in the formal or external ties that unite a couple does not mean “wipe out in one act” romantic considerations— maintained by a patriarchal system—that over decades have built and validated a way of understanding the relational dynamics, promoting some at the expense of others. This time, following the research of Lagarde (2001), that revolution is not, in an intrinsic manner, merely in the way of the relationships, and introducing a new person to the relationship or agreeing to maintain an open or polyamorous relationship does not entail a deconstruction of romantic considerations per se
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