Abstract
This chapter describes passion as a salient emotional experience of love, along with erotic and sexual feelings, frequently associated with it. The cross-cultural universality and variety of passions are shown. The chapter discusses the evolutionary and cultural factors affecting experience and expression of passion. Erotic experience in love, as aesthetic feeling, is described in comparison with sexual attraction and sensual love, as yearning and longing for bodily pleasure. Erotic experience and understanding of relations between love and sex are reviewed across cultures.
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