Only one word for love in English?

Dinosaur said:
The following seems to be a common view.The above impies that if there is sexual desire, it is not true love. I consider the above POV as silly romantic fantasy.

There is a big difference in the meaning of lust and the meaning of sexual desire. Some people do not seem to know the difference.

BTW: I recently realized there are two words meaning love other than sexual love or romantic love (which are terms that I consider approximately equivalent).
  • Necrophilia, which I consider weird, but not evil. There is a limerick on this subject.

  • Pedophilia, which I consider both pathological & evil.
My Spell Checker does not include the above two words, but I are very sure that they exist.
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I never said that if there was sexual desire(which is lust) that there couldn't be love as well. I am stating that the two are not the same but can exist side by side. You can love your spouse and have sexual desire or be physically attracted to them and love your child as equally as your spouse but the sexual desire component is not a part of it. equally, you can have sexual desire toward your mistress but not love them at all etc.

My view is not silly but more realistic.
 
Dinosaur said:
I recently realized there are two words meaning love other than sexual love or romantic love (which are terms that I consider approximately equivalent).
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"Romantic" and "sexual" are not synonyms. Romance is about affection and often includes idealization of the object of one's love. Romantic love usually includes sexual attraction, but the opposite is most emphatically not true.
  • Necrophilia, which I consider weird, but not evil. There is a limerick on this subject.
  • Pedophilia, which I consider both pathological & evil.
My Spell Checker does not include the above two words, but I am very sure that they exist.
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From Dictionary.com:
  • Necrophilia: An erotic attraction to corpses
  • Pedophilia: Sexual desire in an adult for a child.
These are both strictly sexual and have no component of love.

Most human cultures observe a minimum level of respect for the dead--at least the dead of one's own community--and necrophilia is, in fact, generally considered evil.

Limericks are not authoritative sources of information.

Both words are modern coinages (about one century old) from Greek roots and my spell checker doesn't recognize them either. The British often spell the second word paedophilia (and pronounce it with a long E, which we do not), which is also not in my spell checker.
 
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