Eros: Sexual Love

Eros, passion and desire

Whose arrows are inescapable

Love that burns, akin to fire

Heady and implacable

But Passion alone cannot sustain

The relationship that from Desire springs

Without Psyche, soul-connection, one should refrain

Or risk that Lust alone only ruin brings.

Love others, and self; Eros and Psyche are Love.

While the Ancient Greeks saw Eros, Sexual desire, as vital to a loving relationship, they also cautioned that sex as the only connection in a relationship would lead to unhappiness, obsession and a lack of fulfillmemt.

Even today, Friends-With-Benefits relationships are sustained by that friendship as much as the physical aspects, whom one-night stands with strangers are scorned as something you’ll regret when the Sun rises.