1. Aristophanes" Speech on Love
... these creatures, and in so doing moved their genitals from the back to the front of their bodies. In addition, these beings were now able to reproduce through a unification of a male and a female facilitated by their newly relocated genitals. Now, instead of laying their seed in the ground, they could lay their seed in one another. This new process of reproduction ... such unification "Love does the best that can be done for the time being: he draws us towards what belongs to us" (Aristophanes, p.30). Aristophanes does however betray a bias towards male homosexual love as being better a...
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