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{{Love table}}
'''Romantic love''' iszsche. (For an account of the way the modern usage of this term is distinguished from its original sense involving sublimation, see the article ].) ] le Feminist Critique/Feminine Text (Summer, 1982), pp. 21-31</ref> who argue that it does not account for the woman as inherently desired.
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Properties of romantic love include these:
* It cannot be easily controlled.
* It is not overtly (initially at least) predicated on a desire for sex as a physical act.
* If requited, it may be the basis for lifelong commitment.

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* Denis de Rougemont, ''Love in the Western World.'' Pantheon Books, 1956.
* ], ''Falling in love'', New York, Random House, 1983.

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