VALENTINE SPECIAL

Public Address VALENTINE SPECIAL

Love is often regarded as different from mere needs driven by sexual desire or lust. Romantic love generally involves a mix of emotional and sexual desire. There is often, initially, more emphasis on the emotions than on physical pleasure.

Romantic love can be returned or unrequited. In the former case the mutual expressions of love can lead to marriage or to the establishment of a permanent relationship, which in most cases will include passionate sexual love. Where the love is one-sided (unrequited) damage to the self esteem and/or the psychological welfare of the spurned lover can result.

One aspect of romantic love is the randomness of the encounters which lead to love. Romantic love became a recognised passion in the Middle Ages, when in some cases insurmountable barriers of morality or convention separated the lovers. The effect of physical attraction and impossibility of intimacy resulted in an excessive regard of the beloved as extremely precious. Winning the love, or at least the attention, of the beloved, motivated great efforts of many kinds, such as in poetry and song.

To coincide with the day of celebration for romantic love - Valentines Day - here is a two-hour special edition of Public Address featuring songs and music of love interspersed by spoken word renditions.

Written Edited Produced and Presented by Thom McKeown © 2023