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Romantic Love in America

Cultural Models of Gay, Straight, and Polyamorous Relationships
By:Victor C. de Munck
Publisher:Bloomsbury USA
Print ISBN:9781498538695
eText ISBN:9781498538701
Edition:1
Format:Page Fidelity

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Romantic Love in America: Cultural Models of Gay, Straight, and Polyamorous Relationships introduces the reader to the love and sex lives of two polyamorous,five gay, and eight straight individuals. Coupled with rich interviewmaterial, Victor C. de Munck provides a guided tour through the variablegeography of love relationships as studied in the social sciences. de Munckdescribes evolutionary, cognitive, social, prototypical, triadic, and neural theoriesof romantic love and sex, concluding with an American cultural model ofromantic love that also includes its relational properties as a dyad.