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72 relations: Abraham Lincoln, Adelphopoiesis, Asexuality, Bible, Boston marriage, Bromance, Casual dating, Co-sleeping, Compadre, Courtly love, Cross-sex friendship, Dating, David, David and Jonathan, David Herbert Donald, Douglas Bush, Emotional affair, Female education, Feminism, Four Walls Eight Windows, Friendship, Gay, Greek love, HarperCollins, Harvard Classics, Harvard University Press, Heterosociality, Holding hands, Homosexuality, Homosociality, Hug, Human female sexuality, Human sexuality, Interpersonal relationship, Intimate relationship, John Boswell, John Ruskin, Jonathan (1 Samuel), Joshua Fry Speed, Kiss, Lesbian, Lillian Faderman, Love, Massage, Michel de Montaigne, Naomi (biblical figure), Near East, Parent-in-law, Physical intimacy, Platonic love, ..., Romance (love), Romantic orientation, Ruth (biblical figure), Same-sex relationship, Saul, Sex differences in humans, Sexual intercourse, Sexual orientation, Shakespeare's sonnets, Smith College, Social constructionism, Society, Stephanie Coontz, The New Republic, University of Massachusetts Press, Vintage Books, Wedding, Western world, Womance, Women's colleges in the United States, Women's suffrage in the United States, Work spouse. Expand index (22 more) »
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.
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Adelphopoiesis
Adelphopoiesis, or adelphopoiia from the Greek ἀδελφοποίησις, derived from ἀδελφός (adelphos) "brother" and ποιέω (poieō) "I make", literally "brother-making" is a ceremony practiced historically in Christian tradition to unite together two people of the same sex (normally men) in a church-recognized relationship analogous to siblinghood.
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Asexuality
Asexuality is the lack of sexual attraction to others, or low or absent interest in or desire for sexual activity.
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Bible
The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, "the books") is a collection of sacred texts or scriptures that Jews and Christians consider to be a product of divine inspiration and a record of the relationship between God and humans.
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Boston marriage
A "Boston marriage" was, historically, the cohabitation of two women, independent of financial support from a man.
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Bromance
A bromance is a close but non-sexual relationship between two or more men.
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Casual dating
Casual dating or a casual relationship is a physical and emotional relationship between two people who may have casual sex or a near-sexual relationship without necessarily demanding or expecting the extra commitments of a more formal romantic relationship.
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Co-sleeping
Co-sleeping is a practice in which babies and young children sleep close to one or both parents, as opposed to in a separate room.
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Compadre
The compadre (literally "co-father" or "co-parent") relationship between the parents and godparents of a child is an important bond that originates when a child is baptized in Iberian and Latin American families.
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Courtly love
Courtly love (or fin'amor in Occitan) was a medieval European literary conception of love that emphasized nobility and chivalry.
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Cross-sex friendship
A cross-sex friendship is a platonic relationship between an unrelated man and woman.
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Dating
Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a prospective partner in an intimate relationship or marriage.
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David
David is described in the Hebrew Bible as the second king of the United Kingdom of Israel and Judah.
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David and Jonathan
David (Hebrew:; Dāwīḏ or David) and Jonathan (Hebrew:; Yəhōnāṯān or Yehonatan) were heroic figures of the Kingdom of Israel, who formed a covenant of friendship recorded in the books of Samuel.
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David Herbert Donald
David Herbert Donald (October 1, 1920 – May 17, 2009) was an American historian, best known for his 1995 biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Douglas Bush
John Nash Douglas Bush (1896–1983) was a literary critic and literary historian.
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Emotional affair
The term emotional affair is used in the media to categorise or explain a certain type of relationship.
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Female education
Female education is a catch-all term of a complex set of issues and debates surrounding education (primary education, secondary education, tertiary education, and health education in particular) for girls and women.
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Feminism
Feminism is a range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve political, economic, personal, and social equality of sexes.
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Four Walls Eight Windows
Four Walls Eight Windows was an independent book publisher in New York City.
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Friendship
Friendship is a relationship of mutual affection between people.
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Gay
Gay is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual.
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Greek love
Greek love is a term originally used by classicists to describe the primarily homoerotic, customs, practices and attitudes of the ancient Greeks.
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HarperCollins
HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C. is one of the world's largest publishing companies and is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Hachette, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, and Simon & Schuster.
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Harvard Classics
The Harvard Universal Classics, originally known as Dr.
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Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing.
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Heterosociality
In sociology, heterosociality describes social relations with persons of the opposite sex or a preference for such relations, often excluding relationships of a romantic and sexual nature.
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Holding hands
Holding hands is a form of physical intimacy involving two or more people.
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Homosexuality
Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender.
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Homosociality
In sociology, homosociality means same-sex relationships that are not of a romantic or sexual nature, such as friendship, mentorship, or others.
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Hug
A hug is a form of endearment, universal in human communities, in which two or more people put their arms around the neck, back, or waist of one another and hold each other closely.
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Human female sexuality
Human female sexuality encompasses a broad range of behaviors and processes, including female sexual identity and sexual behavior, the physiological, psychological, social, cultural, political, and spiritual or religious aspects of sexual activity.
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Human sexuality
Human sexuality is the way people experience and express themselves sexually.
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Interpersonal relationship
An interpersonal relationship is a strong, deep, or close association or acquaintance between two or more people that may range in duration from brief to enduring.
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Intimate relationship
An intimate relationship is an interpersonal relationship that involves physical or emotional intimacy.
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John Boswell
John Eastburn Boswell (March 20, 1947 – December 24, 1994) was a historian and a full professor at Yale University.
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John Ruskin
John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist.
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Jonathan (1 Samuel)
Jonathan (Hebrew: Yəhōnāṯān or Yehonatan; or Yonatan) is a heroic figure in 1 Samuel in the Hebrew Bible.
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Joshua Fry Speed
Joshua Fry Speed (November 14, 1814 May 29, 1882) was a close friend of Abraham Lincoln from his days in Springfield, Illinois, where Speed was a partner in a general store.
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Kiss
A kiss is the touch or pressing of one's lips against another person or an object.
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Lesbian
A lesbian is a homosexual woman.
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Lillian Faderman
Lillian Faderman (born July 18, 1940) is an American historian whose books on lesbian history and LGBT history have earned critical praise and awards.
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Love
Love encompasses a variety of different emotional and mental states, typically strongly and positively experienced, ranging from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest interpersonal affection and to the simplest pleasure.
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Massage
Massage is to work and act on the body with pressure.
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Lord of Montaigne (28 February 1533 – 13 September 1592) was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre.
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Naomi (biblical figure)
Naomi (Hebrew: Standard Hebrew Noʻomi, Tiberian Hebrew nåʿå̆mī) is Ruth's mother-in-law in the Old Testament Book of Ruth.
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Near East
The Near East is a geographical term that roughly encompasses Western Asia.
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Parent-in-law
A parent-in-law is a person who has a legal affinity with another by being the parent of the other's spouse.
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Physical intimacy
Physical intimacy is sensual proximity or touching.
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Platonic love
Platonic love (often lower-cased as platonic) is a term used for a type of love, or close relationship that is non-sexual.
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Romance (love)
Romance is the expressive and generally pleasurable feeling from an emotional attraction towards another person.
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Romantic orientation
Romantic orientation, also called affectional orientation, indicates the sex or gender with which a person is most likely to have a romantic relationship or fall in love.
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Ruth (biblical figure)
Ruth, is the title character of the Book of Ruth; along with her mother-in-law Naomi, she is the book's heroine.
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Same-sex relationship
A same-sex relationship is a relationship between persons of the same sex and can take many forms, from romantic and sexual, to non-romantic homosocially-close relationships.
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Saul
Saul (meaning "asked for, prayed for"; Saul; طالوت, Ṭālūt or شاؤل, Ša'ūl), according to the Hebrew Bible, was the first king of the Kingdom of Israel and Judah.
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Sex differences in humans
Sex differences in humans have been studied in a variety of fields.
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Sexual intercourse
Sexual intercourse (or coitus or copulation) is principally the insertion and thrusting of the penis, usually when erect, into the vagina for sexual pleasure, reproduction, or both.
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Sexual orientation
Sexual orientation is an enduring pattern of romantic or sexual attraction (or a combination of these) to persons of the opposite sex or gender, the same sex or gender, or to both sexes or more than one gender.
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Shakespeare's sonnets
Shakespeare's sonnets are poems that William Shakespeare wrote on a variety of themes.
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Smith College
Smith College is a private, independent women's liberal arts college with coed graduate and certificate programs in Northampton, Massachusetts.
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Social constructionism
Social constructionism or the social construction of reality (also social concept) is a theory of knowledge in sociology and communication theory that examines the development of jointly constructed understandings of the world that form the basis for shared assumptions about reality.
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Society
A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same geographical or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations.
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Stephanie Coontz
Stephanie Coontz (born August 31, 1944) is an author, historian, and faculty member at Evergreen State College.
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The New Republic
The New Republic is a liberal American magazine of commentary on politics and the arts, published since 1914, with influence on American political and cultural thinking.
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University of Massachusetts Press
The University of Massachusetts Press is a university press that is part of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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Vintage Books
Vintage Books is a publishing imprint established in 1954 by Alfred A. Knopf.
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Wedding
A wedding is a ceremony where two people are united in marriage.
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Western world
The Western world refers to various nations depending on the context, most often including at least part of Europe and the Americas.
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Womance
A womance, also called sismance (by Dr Sarah Nicholson, Chloe Bryan and others), is a close but non-sexual relationship between two or more women.
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Women's colleges in the United States
Women's colleges in the United States are single-sex U.S. institutions of higher education that only admit female students.
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Women's suffrage in the United States
Women's suffrage in the United States of America, the legal right of women to vote, was established over the course of several decades, first in various states and localities, sometimes on a limited basis, and then nationally in 1920.
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Work spouse
"Work spouse" is a phrase, mostly in American English, referring to a co-worker, usually of the opposite sex,, also: "They are platonic, close, opposite-sex couplings, with no romantic strings attached"; "A recent workplace survey found that 32 percent of workers say they have an 'office husband' or 'office wife.' '(It's) really hitting its stride this year,' said Mark Oldman, co-founder of Vault Inc.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romantic_friendship
