Pip Rasmussen

So I think when we think about, you know,

india and maybe ancient sex and love we think of like the karma sutra which was written around the time of christ and it's often misunderstood in the west it wasn't this like kinky book of you know sexual techniques it was actually part of a broader look on love and pleasure and emotional connection and spirituality yeah which i think you know when we think about love today we do think of romantic love is like you're

Your spiritual guide, your teacher, your best friend, your lover, they're supposed to be your everything.

And so you can see historically when we look at different cultures around the world, there were like elements that kind of were more significant in each place.

So obviously like spirituality was such a huge one in India.

And why?

So let's start with the Middle Ages.

So there was a gradual shift that started to happen during that time.

And then there was a really strong pivotal shift in the Romantic era, which we'll chat about later.

But during the medieval times in Europe, the ideals of chivalry and courtly love introduced a new kind of passion.

So she might have been married to someone, but it was all around her having a lover boy.

They were like spread the rumor, we're all having affairs.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Wow.

100%.

100%.

Even hearing you say that, I think about how much of those ideas around love we still are obsessed with, right?

Like this idea that it is meant to be hard, that, you know, it's hotter if it's secret, that, you know, that it's not something that comes easily and like, you know, the yearning and the unrequited and the jealousy, like that makes so much sense.

Well, do you know what happened then in the 16th century, early 17th century?

Which also played a huge, huge pivotal moment when it comes to how we think about romantic love.