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[–]MarkJeffersonTight defenses and we draw the line 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It sounds like flawed taxonomy to me. Real romantic attraction is just a subset of sexual attraction where you like their personality as well or even mainly. A person could not be romantically attracted to someone they could not also be sexually attracted to, I think. That would just turn out to be a platonic friendship, which lacks all the (sexual) energy of romantic relationships, and I feel like the former can't be as intimate in the same way. I think that sometimes people who haven't much experience in relationships are more likely to confuse the two. Because they haven't yet encountered the real thing to be able to compare the feeling.

A few more takes on this here.