John Milbank on sentimental love:
Let’s all of us today, straight or gay, try to rediscover authentic romance, beyond all the fake modern versions which fail to oppose brutality of bodily desire with weak sentimentality of the mind. It was, to the contrary, a heroic strength of mind and a tender vulnerability of the body in the face of otherness which the courtly stories once celebrated. Without this true romance - without “making love” - we won’t in the future be having any sex either.
