Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 May 2022
The same point applies, though perhaps less dramatically and with less obvious potential for disaster, to the non-erotic varieties of love. Maybe I hang out with you because you shake a wicked cocktail, or can teach me how to catch rainbow trout. Maybe, in fact, this is the only reason I hang out with you. Non-sexual friendships of these superficial sorts—and perhaps I can show that there is some philosophical interest in that word ‘superficial’—are as familiar and commonplace as sexual friendships of the sort that bothered Anne Gregory.
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