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Love at First Sight

Please take my Better Sex poll on love at first sight. Is love at first sight real?

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So... Does love at first sight exist?

Love at first sight is when you feel a romantic attraction to a stranger the very first time your eyes meet. It may be a sexual attraction or crush, but it usually refers to falling in love with someone the very first time you see them, along with the deep desire to have an intimate relationship with them.

In the classical world, the phenomenon of love at first sight was understood within the context of passionate love, a kind of madness or, as the Greeks put it, theia mania (madness from the gods), delivered by love's arrows.

The arrows would pierce a lover's heart and overwhelm them with desire and longing. This is beautifully described in Achilles Tatius's Leucippe and Clitophon, where the lover Clitophon describes his own experience of the phenomenon:

"As soon as I had seen her, I was lost. For Beauty's wound is sharper than any weapon's, and it runs through the eyes down to the soul. It is through the eye that love's wound passes, and I now became a prey to a host of emotions..."

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Reader Post: 'I absolutely believe in love at first sight and this belief is backed up by science too.

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