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What were Rand's views on Platonic love?

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Did Ayn Rand say that love (between a man and a woman) without sex is not love?

If so, then what were her reasons?

I think that Miss Rand held Platonic love as an ideal to be an evil hypocrisy, just as she codemned the ideal of sex without love. She always thought in terms of the integration of mind and body, of thought and action. Romantic love divorced from sex, or sex divorced from love, was the opposite of her ideal. However, I doubt that she would have thought it to be impossible to have love without sex under all conceivable circumstances.

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Did Ayn Rand say that love (between a man and a woman) without sex is not love?

If so, then what were her reasons?

From the mouth of Francisco:

You're the man who's spent his life shaping matter to the purpose of his mind. You're the man who would know that just as an idea unexpressed in physical action is contemptible hypocrisy, so is platonic love—and just as physical action unguided by an idea is a fool's self-fraud, so is sex when cut off from one's code of values. It's the same issue, and you would know it. Your inviolate sense of self-esteem would know it. You would be incapable of desire for a woman you despised. Only the man who extols the purity of a love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love.

From OPAR:

When a man and woman do fall in love—assuming that each is romantically free and the context otherwise appropriate—sex is a necessary and proper expression of their feeling for each other. "Platonic love" under such circumstances would be a vice, a breach of integrity. Sex is to love what action is to thought, possession to evaluation, body to soul.
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