... to Aristophanes, this original primeval man had a round body, his back and sides formed into a circle from which two pairs of arms and legs protruded, he had two faces, and most importantly, two sets of genitalia. Aristophanes goes on to say that there were three different kinds of these original human beings, all of which were differentiated by their gender. Not only ... the soul. Aristophanes characterizes love as the joy one derives from merely being with ones other half "And so when a person meets the other half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young m...

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