Maybe, I want to say, in conclusion, Venus is more selfish than Eros.Clive Staples Lewis FBA (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British writer, literary scholar, and Anglican lay theologian. However, when couples have Venus, they focus on having the sexual pleasure in order to satisfy their own desire they express love physically. There is distinction between Eros and Venus, when couples have Eros, they focus on each other they express their love romantically. As Charles Williams said, “Love you? I am you.” They are in love so deeply so that they want to be each other.

Having sex became a need-pleasure at this time. But when the love (Eros) reaches a certain level, both of them began to have sexual desire. When a man fells in love with a woman, he is more concerned about the woman herself instead of her gender. “Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman.” Compare to old times, in the modern world, in most cases, sexuality happened after the “real” Eros. Why this happened all the time? As Lewis explained because the sexuality happened without Eros. Nonetheless, after the fruition, he simply abandons her. If a guy wants only to have sex, he goes and picks any women on the street. However, someone such as George Orwell, prefers the pure sexuality, or physical sexuality without Eros. In Lewis’s opinion, Venus should happen only after a couple falls in love. Most times, Eros only happened after several years of marriage. Or, sometimes, we can explain that the Venus occurs depend on the human instinct instead of love (Eros).

But because the fear of God, they obeyed his words, (“Be fruitful, and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.” Genesis 1:22), tried their best to “make” as many children as they could. There was no love growing up between them. Some of them never met each other until they went to their marriage bed. In old times, young couples got married by their parents’ will. However, Eros includes sexual activities. In his writing, he explained the sexual experience can occur without Eros. Lewis’s writing about Eros (pure love) and Venus (sexuality) is really interesting. In our biology class, teachers skip the chapter which talked about sexuality. In China, parents never taught this to their children. Actually, I would like to say that I really learned two new words today.īefore I read this chapter, I never thought about this topic.

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