We need to talk about love, a lot more.

With language and ways of thinking which are actually up to the task.

Loving one another is arguably the most powerful and complex thing we do as a species. We are genetically hardwired to connect, to bond. We need interaction and touch and belonging. We could reduce it to the biological reproductive drive of a pack animal species, compelling us to procreate and seek safety in numbers for survival. But as our societies have grown and evolved so too has the nature, scope, and complexity of our relationships. Those basic drives are still fully present but they now have an ever expanding spectrum of ways to manifest and express. So why are we still so often continuing to reduce and restrict our ideas about love rather than expanding them?

There is a lot of important work being done fighting for people’s right to love who they love, to expand the definitions of marriage and family and parenting. They are extremely important battles which still need to be fought. Things are getting better but there is still a ways to go as there are still far too many parts of the world where the struggle is literally one of life a death.

The diversity engines are also hard at work in the realm of sexuality expanding the understanding and array of options with regards to the variance in people’s sexual drives, preferred models of relationships…